remember this aesop’s fable? with five kids i have read my share over the years…the stories are really timeless and profound in more ways than one. a few weeks ago the story of the tortoise and the hare came back onto my scan, and i have been thinking about it a lot. at our house of refuge […]
Read Moreconspiring for change
conspire. i love this word. so many of us have probably always thought of this as a negative word-“conspiring against the authorities”…”conspiracy to overthrow the government”…”conspiracy to commit a crime.” but here’s a new twist on the word that i greatly appreciated: it’s roots come from the latin “conspirare” which means “to breathe together.” to […]
Read Morea time for burning
at the refuge’s february film & discussion night this past friday we watched a time for burning, a documentary shot in 1967 depicting conversations around a white lutheran’s pastor desire to organize a social gathering with a local african-american lutheran church in omaha, nebraska. here’s all he wanted to do: offer a reconciliatory gesture toward his african-american fellow lutherans […]
Read Morewhy i believe in co-pastoring
a few years ago i had never even heard of a co-pastor. i knew about senior pastors, i knew about associate pastors and childrens & youth pastors and some churches, if they had really big budgets, would have a care pastor. but during all my time in churches and ministry i never heard the word […]
Read Morea community where men cry
i am not into talking that much about the differences between men and women. in fact, i rarely, if ever, do because i just lean on the bottom line, that we are human beings and both essentially need the same things. yes, of course inside we might be wired a little differently emotionally, but i hate the […]
Read Morewhy prepositions matter
my friends know a lot about incarnational relationships. in the trenches at milehigh ministries, they are passionate about all the same stuff i am. a few weeks ago they facilitated our sunday refuge gathering and shared about the spiritual discipline of incarnational relationships. the official word in the richard foster books would be “service and […]
Read Morea little re-post here, a little link there
instead of re-creating the wheel, i thought i’d just pass on a few other posts from the refuge and the collage workshop i went to this past weekend. the refuge post is about some of the marks of authentic community & some of the things we are passionate about. you can check it out here. jenny […]
Read Morepraying when you can't find your prayer beads or have taken the word "quiet time" out of your vocabulary
i am not a big pray-er in the traditional sense. i don’t spend specific time every day dedicated to prayer. i don’t call on God on behalf of people in a specific way using certain words. i don’t have a “quiet time” at the same time, in the same way, in the same place like i used to years […]
Read Morethe beauty and pain of pot-making
and for all you naughties out there who only saw the title & not the picture, i’m talking about pots that potters make out of clay! yesterday i went to the spiritual direction 3 hour retreat that the refuge hosted at jenny’s house. my friend debbie swanson, who is a spiritual director, facilitated. i loved the […]
Read Morethe flogging machine
a friend emailed me yesterday and told me she had been hanging out in the flogging machine. in my earlier post i referred to it, but i realized that my friends from the refuge and some others may know what i am talking about but others might not have any idea what it means. i did […]
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