i’ve been off line for the past few weeks getting my kids off to a new school year & taking a break from thinking about the blog. it’s nice to have 8am-3pm back every day after 3 long wacky months getting my oldest out to college & enjoying summer with my other 4. i hope [...]
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small is plenty
Posted in church stuff, incarnational, the carnival in my head, the refuge on August 27, 2010 | 9 Comments »
gender equality is so pretty
Posted in church stuff, dreams, equality, healing, leadership, the refuge, tagged synchroblog, christine sine on August 16, 2010 | 5 Comments »
* this is a post i wrote a while back for christine sine’s summer blog series about the kingdom now & how people are seeing it up-close-and-personal. i thought i’d share it here, too. it’s short & sweet & when i re-read it today it reminded me of how thankful i am for my brothers [...]
recovery under the big tent
Posted in church stuff, dreams, healing, incarnational, spiritual formation, tagged 12 steps, big tent christianity on August 10, 2010 | 14 Comments »
* this post is part of a week-long synchroblog hosted by big tent christianity, a collaborative event in raleigh september 9-13. so many fun conversations will be had there, i’m sure. i wish i could go, but it was just too much to pull off this fall. * * * * * it’s a dingy [...]
codependence, independence, interdependence
Posted in church stuff, healing, incarnational, relationships, spiritual formation, the refuge, tagged community, interdependence, codependence on August 4, 2010 | 9 Comments »
the #1 word that i use at the refuge (other than nutty, messy, wild and beautiful) is relationship. to me, when Jesus summed up the law and said it’s about loving God, others, ourselves that he was basically saying “it’s about relationship, people.” it’s not about stuff or knowledge or words–it’s about love. i also [...]
meat lovers beware! our taste buds have been contaminated
Posted in church stuff, crazy making, fundamentalism, rants on July 30, 2010 | 8 Comments »
i originally wrote this post for the refuge blog in october 2007. when i was looking at a few old posts this week i stumbled across it and thought i’d repost it because most everyone here has never read it. it’s almost 3 years later and even though i am rarely around people who ask [...]
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