(Message given at Newberg Friends Church on August 31, 2014) “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your …
Read MoreWay Forward?
(These words and thoughts are my own. I am not in any clerk position in our Yearly Meeting and do not speak for our Yearly Meeting. As a community, we have not discussed many of these ideas, but I offer them in hope that these …
Read MoreResurrection
So tomorrow, after more than a year of silence, I will bring this blog back to life. Sometimes I think my spoken messages do better in written form, and I felt that last Sunday. So I’ll blog that one, and then work on some in …
Read MoreBlogging workshop at FWCC
Last Friday night was a great experience. I was at FWCC’s annual gathering for the section of the Americas. Robin Mohr invited me to join her in leading a listening group on how blogging is helpful in the Quaker discussion. I really enjoyed the opportunity …
Read MoreHow I see the bible
(Thank you for the enjoyable comments and discussion! Sorry for the slowness between posts. I’m going to bite off less than I originally said I would in this post, so that I’ll actually keep moving forward. This post will be some of my presuppositions about …
Read MoreWhy is atonement needed?
My friend Robin blogged about Brian McLaren’s books, writing an almost throw-away line wondering why the crucifixion is such a big deal, much more so than the resurrection, it seems. I jumped on that in the comments, and a wonderfully rich discussion exploded about the …
Read MoreLike military intelligence or jumbo shrimp…
I’m afraid that the best I have to offer the world is an oxymoron. Good to Great says that great companies refine their focus to find the one thing they can do better than anyone else in the world. Steve Fawver just read it (I …
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