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I will try an experiment today because this blog community has been so versatile and spirited. Today in our chp from Tracy Balzer, Thin Places, I want to post two items and get your reflections.

I am grateful to Willow’s Ancient-Future Community conference leaders, like Bill Donahue and Dave Treat … and I’ll stop there, for inviting me to speak yesterday. Great great hosts … from the moment I arrived until I left they were looking after us. Thanks Dick and Judson. What an honor to have two North Parkers…

Here’s one of the little female hummingbirds that visit our feeders throughout the day. When the days are cooler, they aren’t around much; on warmer days they visit us all day long. Some of their aerial combats have been awesome.

In Colossians Remixed, Walsh-Keesmaat argue that there are three important rules for interpreting a text: context, context, context. Which is what the first four chapters did. What surprises, of course, many today is that they would choose “empire” as the context for Colossians. Is it the best one?

If you are sitting in my session at the Willow Ancient-Future Communities conference on group life, and you are also reading this blog as I am speaking (or instead of listening), hello to you and pray for me! Go ahead, take notes right here and let all the readers see what’s going on. (I’ve never…

Most of us have read enough Bible to know texts that make us uncomfortable, texts like ignoring Hagar or sacrificing Jephthah’s daughter or patriarchs behaving badly. But most of us do the same thing: ignore them and hope no one asks us about them. John Thompson, though, doesn’t ignore them: he looks them square in…

Next week we will begin a series on Brian McLaren’s new book, Everything Must Change. If Brian’s Generous Orthodoxy muddied the waters and his Secret Message of Jesus showed the path he was traveling, this new book makes it abundantly clear what Brian sees as the task of the Christian in the Western world.

What does Paul mean when he speaks of “fruitfulness” on the part of the church at Colosse? Here is Col. 1:5-6: “Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and growing–so among yourselves, from…

At a dinner with some friends last evening we had a question, which we didn’t chase down, but which has been one that I have thought about over the years: Which is worse for the kingdom — the generous, kind leader whose thoughts sometimes wander from the traditional or the brash, abrasive, mean-spirited leader whose…

If you had your choice, would you rather watch a professional game — say baseball or football or basketball or hockey [soccer doesn’t count, not a sport] — at home or at the stadium?
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