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I've decided to move to a new platform for this weblog. Here is the link to the new just an apprentice.

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Here is an essay by Frederica Matthewes-Green expressing an Orthodox perspective on the ordination of women.The words that jumped out of the essay for me were these:"I don’t mind if Protestant denominations want to ordain women. Many times, this just means allowing them to do things Orthodox women have always done."I am intrigued by one thing in the conversation that has been taking place in LMC

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Link to Bono's speech at the NAACP Awards.

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Here are some pics from our trip to Kansas. More can be found here.Went to Reading this afternoon to tape a show for BCTV at the invitation of Ira's cousin, Calvin Kurtz. Father Demetrius and I talked about the dialogue three weeks ago and the ongoing conversation between Mennonites and Orthodoxy.

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We celebrate Communion once a month at SMC. We made the transition from Communion two times a year, to once a month almost eleven years ago. Some might question whether the increased frequency might detract from the depth of the meaning. I have never heard that question asked about singing or sermons--that we should not have these pieces every week out of a concern that they would become

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Trinitarian missiology. A must read paper (11 pages) by Nelson Krabill, presented for Allelon Missional Schools project.

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Working on the sermon for Grandma Unruh's funeral on Sunday. In my preparation, I came across these beautiful words by Henri Nouwen. I am being stretched more than ever before, but with it comes a deeper appreciation for the spiritual community I am a part of--those living and dead.As we grow older we have more and more people to remember, people who have died before us. It is very important

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The First Green of SpringDavid Budbill Out walking in the swamp picking cowslip, marsh marigold,this sweet first green of spring. Now sautéed in a pan meltingto a deeper green than they were alive, this green, this life,harbinger of things to come. Now we sit at the table munchingon this message from the dawn which says we and the worldare alive again today, and this is the world's birthday.

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"There is a fundamental schism in American cultural, political, and economic life. There's the quicker-growing, economically vibrant...morally relativist, urban-oriented, culturally adventuresome, sexually polymorphous, and ethnically diverse nation...and there's the small town, nuclear-family, religiously-oriented, white-centric other America, [with]...its diminishing cultural and economic

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alefbetgimeldalethevavzayinchettetyodkaflamedmemnunsamekayinpetsadeqofreshsinshintav

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The following message is republished here from the blog of a catholic priest who is known to stand on his head. The excellent work done by this subversive counter-intelligence agent has filtered out, de-coded and translated the exchanges between the Inquisitor and one of his minnions--Hogwart.While these messages have been merely reproduced here, there are some indications that new messages are

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I came across this blog post by Jim Wallis yesterday and this one by Brian McLaren that preceded it. I am thinking about the need for Christians to enter into dialogue with those who see things differently. I am thinking about the tone we use when engaging those who use different words and a different configuration of values when talking about Christian faith.I am cautiously hopeful that the

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Here are some photos from the Mennonite/Orthodox dialogue on Saturday.

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We had a good afternoon at Annunciation for the Mennonite/Orthodox dialogue. You can download the paper I presented here. It is not perfect, but it is an iteration of how Anabaptists read and interpret the Bible. I think the part on how authority is expressed in the Mennonite (and more broadly the Protestant/Evangelical stream) is particularly important to understanding the contemporary situation

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Lord and Master of my life,Take away from me the will to be lazy and sad,The desire to get ahead of other people,And to boast and brag. Give me instead a pure and humble spirit,The will to be patient with other people,And to love them. Grant, Lord, that I may see my own sins,And keep me from judging the things other people do.For you are holy, now and forever,And to the ages of ages. Amen. --St

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Went to see Amazing Grace this afternoon on a date with Heather. It is well done. I highly recommend it. Inspiring! A clear witness for Christ his Kingdom breaking in.

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I have been consumed with the process of writing for the last week and a half or so (and it is not yet completed!!). Working on the paper that will be presented for the Mennonite/Orthodox Dialogue on March 3. I think the paper is starting to come together. Looking at interpreting Scripture and the relationship of tradition and praxis as loci of authority in the community of interpretation (

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One is either a good German or a good Christian. It is impossible to be both at the same time.--Adolf HitlerHere is more medicine from Mere Discipleship, Lee Camp.It is not nation-states that run the world or determine the real meaning

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Then I saw in the right hand of the one seated on the throne a scroll written on the inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals; and I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, "Who is worthy to open the scroll and break the seals?" And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it. Then one of the elders said to me, "Do not weep. See,

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Softly, gently in the secret night,Down from the North came the quiet white.Drifting, sifting, silent flight,Softly, gently, in the secret night.White snow, bright snow, smooth and deep.Light snow, night snow, quiet as sleep.Down, down, without a sound;Down, down, to the frozen ground.Covering roads and hiding fences,Sifting in cracks and filling up trenches.Millions of snowflakes, tiny and light

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I knew the names of all the cows beforeI knew my alphabet, but no matter thesubject; I had mastery of it, and whenit came time to help in the fields, I learned to drive a tractor at just the rightspeed, so that two men, walkingon either side of the moving wagoncould each lift a bale, walk towardsthe steadily arriving platform andsimultaneously hoist the hay onto the rack, walk to the next bale,

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This is amazing!

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By Bishop Nikolai Velimirovic, Serbian bishop who spoke out against Naziism, was arrested, and taken to Dachau.Bless my enemies, O Lord. Even I bless them and do not curse them. Enemies have driven me into your embrace more than friends have. Friends have bound me to earth; enemies have loosed me from earth and have demolished all my aspirations in the world.Enemies have made me a stranger in

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Mennonite theologian A. James Reimer says, "Nicene Orthodoxy needs to be retrieved by the Christian church in general and by the Mennonite Church in particular as a way of remaining faithful to the Bible, as a way of preserving the essential tenets of the Christian faith within a post-biblical context, and as a theological framework for contemporary ethics.""...I believe we need to enter

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