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The Church of the Zoo
Today, during work, I was listening to a podcast of WNYC’s RadioLab talking about a ‘tortured zoo director’. It’s worth a listen, because towards the end he talks about how difficult it would be to change the way zoos are built and run, because everyone who works at a zoo grew up with them a [...]
always taking the right turn when settling for less would be so much easier
Life is made up of opportunities to begin again. Benedictine spirituality builds that possibility and obligation right into the rule… No one, in other words, has a call simply to a particular place, as good as it may be. The call of God is to the will of God. Consequently, though every institution mediates the [...]
Talking Shop
Amanda
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According to that little lady, I am Thomas Thomas. I have been called Thomas Thomas before, but usually in a bad connotation:
“Where did you hear that?”
”From Thomas.”
“You mean, Thomas Thomas?”
”Yeah.”
Tonight it went a little differently. Her significant other, whom I met and [...]
Renewing Your Congregation’s Mission
Last Thursday through Sunday I was two hours from home at a little camp in Spicer, MN with about nine churches who are at a point in their life where they need to consider their future–some more so than others. They are all wonderful, amazing, beautiful, interesting people, and they care deeply for their churches. [...]
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Daily Bread
During Evening Prayer we pray,
Lord, You have always given
bread for the coming day;
and though I am poor,
today I believe.
And lately, Kim and I have been praying this prayer before dinner,
Bless, O Lord,
this food we are about to eat,
and we pray You, O God,
that it may be good for our body and soul,
and if [...]
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need v. want
The church does not need more experts.
The church needs more fools.
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