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our new publishing house

By thomasknoll | Published: 2008.2.16
I offered to write a book for Emergent™. They laughed, because I don’t have a platform. It takes a whole lot of promotion and potential buyers to get a traditionally published book to “tip”, and make a profit. So, I understand. But I did find out that they get about 6 book proposals a day. [...]
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The Church of the Zoo

By thomasknoll | Published: 2008.2.1
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 [...]
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Stories from the Fringes

By thomasknoll | Published: 2008.1.28
It’s time to turn some dreams into reality… I believe deeply in the power of story. It all goes back to one of my favorite conversations where Tim Costello asked Ivan Illich, “What is the most revolutionary way to change society? Violent revolution or is it gradual reform?” Illich gave a careful answer, “Neither. If [...]
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always taking the right turn when settling for less would be so much easier

By thomasknoll | Published: 2007.12.30
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 [...]
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Talking Shop

By thomasknoll | Published: 2007.10.8
Amanda Originally uploaded by dydimustk 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 hung out with [...]
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Renewing Your Congregation’s Mission

By thomasknoll | Published: 2007.10.3
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

By thomasknoll | Published: 2007.9.23
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 [...]
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I am trying as hard as I can not to sing an inauthentic, dispassionate song

By thomasknoll | Published: 2007.9.19
Below, I suggested that the church needs more fools, and my friend John Pederson had an intriguing response, “There are plenty of other agnostics out there that need a secular Jon Stewart.” I followed up with him, and his response has infected and affected me in some purpose-shifting ways, so I really wanted to share [...]
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By thomasknoll | Published: 2007.9.16
I am trying as hard as I can not to sing an inauthentic, dispassionate song. Tweet
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need v. want

By thomasknoll | Published: 2007.9.10
The church does not need more experts. The church needs more fools. Tweet
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