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May 17, 2010
England in Review
Saturday night, Miska and I returned from a wonderful week in England. We've both been to other spots in Europe, but never England - and both of us have long had a strong connection to things English: Miska with her Victorian writers and her fetish for scones and tea, me with my love affair with Oxford and fascination with European history. Thanks to a better than expected tax refund and the kindness of our friends Cory and Juli to watch the boys, we skipped over the pond for six fabulous day...
May 10, 2010
Parting Words {The Challenge of Easter}
This shared experience has been a good one. Each author has given us something unique, and I have enjoyed the reading and the stretching. Thank you, all.
I keep coming back to the basic question: why the resurrection? When everything went haywire back in Eden, why didn't God just send in a new species to start over from scratch (maybe in a hovering ship, V-like). Why are we even having this conversation when it would have been so easy for us to simply never have been, for everything to have ...
I keep coming back to the basic question: why the resurrection? When everything went haywire back in Eden, why didn't God just send in a new species to start over from scratch (maybe in a hovering ship, V-like). Why are we even having this conversation when it would have been so easy for us to simply never have been, for everything to have ...
May 3, 2010
The Challenge of Easter {5}
Retaining and Forgiving Sins{justin scott}
On this fifth Monday of Easter, our guide for the fifth chapter of The Challenge of Easter
is Justin Scott. You can read the series introduction or read more about our writers. And you can catch up on the first chapter discussion here; second here, third here and fourth here.
******* N.T. Wright spends the final chapter of The Challenge of Easter on two topics: the implications of the Easter story in our day-to-day lives and the ep...
On this fifth Monday of Easter, our guide for the fifth chapter of The Challenge of Easter
is Justin Scott. You can read the series introduction or read more about our writers. And you can catch up on the first chapter discussion here; second here, third here and fourth here.******* N.T. Wright spends the final chapter of The Challenge of Easter on two topics: the implications of the Easter story in our day-to-day lives and the ep...
April 28, 2010
Giving Away a Copy of ViralHope
Ecclesia Press has just launched with its inaugural title, ViralHope: Good News from the Urbs to the Burbs
. Last Easter, 50 authors took on the task of sharing how Jesus might be good news (gospel) for their city. I was a contributor, along with one of my cohorts at All Souls Charlottesville, Evan Hansen. ViralHope has released just in time to be pondered and enjoyed this Easter season.I have a copy to give away. Per the usual, we'll do it with a drawing. The drawing will close Saturday at ...
April 26, 2010
The Challenge of Easter {4}
The Light of the World{miska collier}
On this fourth Monday of Easter, our guide for the fourth chapter of The Challenge of Easter is Miska Collier. You can read the series introduction or read more about our writers. And you can catch up on the first chapter discussion here; second here and the third here.
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Theology of Gender is a six week class I've led a number of times over the past eight years. I adore this topic, mostly because the redemption of my own femininity...
On this fourth Monday of Easter, our guide for the fourth chapter of The Challenge of Easter
is Miska Collier. You can read the series introduction or read more about our writers. And you can catch up on the first chapter discussion here; second here and the third here.********
Theology of Gender is a six week class I've led a number of times over the past eight years. I adore this topic, mostly because the redemption of my own femininity...
April 24, 2010
April 21, 2010
Rise Up and Live
A Blessing from Easter Sunday, for Easter Season
Into every dark corner of your heart
Into loneliness and fear and shame
Into despair and greed and lust
Into ruin and hopelessness and everything death breeds
Receive this: Jesus crushed darkness and death, finished and done.
Rise up and live.
Into every hopeful place in your heart
Into your desire to be loved
Into your longing for true life
Into your desire to live free and bold in the Kingdom of God
Receive this: Jesus walked out of the...
Into every dark corner of your heart
Into loneliness and fear and shame
Into despair and greed and lust
Into ruin and hopelessness and everything death breeds
Receive this: Jesus crushed darkness and death, finished and done.
Rise up and live.
Into every hopeful place in your heart
Into your desire to be loved
Into your longing for true life
Into your desire to live free and bold in the Kingdom of God
Receive this: Jesus walked out of the...
April 20, 2010
Matt King
For all of Matt's community at DCF and all of Matt's community here in Charlottesville at All Souls and Eunoia, we remember this:
We do not mourn as those who have no hope. Because of Jesus' death and resurrection, death is refused the final word. Matt's final hours were spent serving @ The Haven, a homeless shelter where All Souls serves breakfast each Monday. He was always there, smiling and ready to work and love all around him.
Death is swallowed up in victory. {the apostle paul}
Do...
We do not mourn as those who have no hope. Because of Jesus' death and resurrection, death is refused the final word. Matt's final hours were spent serving @ The Haven, a homeless shelter where All Souls serves breakfast each Monday. He was always there, smiling and ready to work and love all around him.
Death is swallowed up in victory. {the apostle paul}
Do...
April 19, 2010
The Challenge of Easter {3}
The Gospel Accounts{john blase}
On this third Monday of Easter, our guide for the third chapter of The Challenge of Easter is John Blase. You can read the series introduction or read more about our writers. And you can catch up on the first chapter discussion here and the second here.
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Let's go—much as that dog goes,intently haphazard....—dancingedgeways, there's nothingthe dog disdains on his way,nevertheless hekeeps moving, changingpace and approach butnot...
On this third Monday of Easter, our guide for the third chapter of The Challenge of Easter
is John Blase. You can read the series introduction or read more about our writers. And you can catch up on the first chapter discussion here and the second here.********
Let's go—much as that dog goes,intently haphazard....—dancingedgeways, there's nothingthe dog disdains on his way,nevertheless hekeeps moving, changingpace and approach butnot...
April 17, 2010
Marilynne Robinson
Tonight, I enjoyed an evening listening to Marilynne Robinson speak on The Human Spirit and the Good Society. Robinson won the Pulitzer for
Gilead
, a read that finds the unique tension of being both peaceful and energetic. I enjoyed Gilead immensely. In addition to her several works of fiction, she is also an essayist and a potent theological voice.
Here are a few of the lines I jotted down this evening:
We have an impulse to conform reality to theory.
We are both terrible and wonderful.
...
, a read that finds the unique tension of being both peaceful and energetic. I enjoyed Gilead immensely. In addition to her several works of fiction, she is also an essayist and a potent theological voice. 
Here are a few of the lines I jotted down this evening:We have an impulse to conform reality to theory.
We are both terrible and wonderful.
...
