Rod White's Blog, page 44
April 9, 2012
What We Dread Is Not Our End
On Tuesday of Holy Week, while Art was bringing us into the Lord's teaching on the last days, I was feeling for our denomination, the Brethren in Christ. The BIC has had a lot of losses. Last year two of our … Continue reading →
April 2, 2012
Five Reasons Holy Week Might Be Hard For Us
Walking with Jesus will be hard this week. It is hard to walk Spirit to spirit every day, but we are entering the "discipline week" that often manages to bring up everything that makes it hard to walk with Jesus … Continue reading →
March 26, 2012
I Don't Want to Zone Out During Holy Week.
Last night I talked about my favorite new painter, William Brassey Hole. I am not sure he is the most spectacular painter. But the scenes he paints are the most spectacular ever. The one on which we were meditating last … Continue reading →
I Don’t Want to Zone Out During Holy Week.
Last night I talked about my favorite new painter, William Brassey Hole. I am not sure he is the most spectacular painter. But the scenes he paints are the most spectacular ever. The one on which we were meditating last … Continue reading →
March 19, 2012
Ravi and Clementi — Let's watch out for one another.
Poor Dharun Ravi and poor Tyler Clementi! It is like evil swooped in to their dorm room and carried them both away. In case you have not been following this tragic case that has been played out in the press … Continue reading →
March 12, 2012
Wanderlust, Eckhart Tolle and Autonomy
OK. So I am one of the forty-five people who watched Paul Rudd and Jennifer Anniston in Wanderlust, last weekend, before the bomb blissfully sank into the red ink, unexploded. US Magazine will no doubt try to keep it alive … Continue reading →
March 5, 2012
The Pacific Garbage Patch Inspires the Fast
The other day I had a rare moment to tune in to a news show and was reminded of the Texas-sized "gyre" of plastic debris that has formed in my beloved Pacific Ocean. The newscasters did the usual treatment of … Continue reading →
Lent, PMs and the Pacific Garbage Patch
The other day I had a rare moment to tune in to a news show and was reminded of the Texas-sized "gyre" of plastic debris that has formed in my beloved Pacific Ocean. The newscasters did the usual treatment of … Continue reading →
February 27, 2012
Why I Still Read Email
Some days the distance between us as the church is palpable. We are getting forced apart by choices to connect at minimal levels with quick, minimal devices. We keep talking about this, as a church, because we are fully adapted … Continue reading →
February 20, 2012
Intimacity, Again
Two and a half years ago I wrote a blog piece that came to my mind again this week. It centered around the word intimacity. At first, I thought I had coined a word; then I Googled it. Google says … Continue reading →
