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Summer Round-Up
This past July and August represent for me the most restful summer I’ve had in a long time. Lots of beach time, lots of people in and out of our house, lots of bbq’s and of course, this.
Genesis Reading
As a church community, theStory is going to spend the next 8 months or […]
Filed by Joe at September 16th, 2007 under Church Planting, Quotes, Documentary, Current Reads
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“In the great spiritual traditions, the wounds to our ego are our teachers and must be welcomed. They must be paid attention to, not litigated. How can a Christian look at the crucified and not get this essential point?” (Richard Rohr in Everything Belongs)
Filed by Joe at May 19th, 2007 under Quotes
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Daddy: Ethan, what story did you learn about at church today?
Ethan: Daniel and the Lion King.
Filed by Joe at April 23rd, 2007 under Quotes
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at present, i’m in the throes of reading 4 books at once. (not always a good idea, but this is my natural approach to many things is suppose.)
anyway…
today, the following from richard jensen’s ‘thinking in story’ leapt off the page. not because it’s necessarily new thinking, but because he has articulated or at least given […]
Filed by Joe at April 19th, 2007 under Quotes
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how do you make attractive that which is not?
how do you sell emptiness, vulnerability, and non-success?
how do you talk descent when everything is about ascent?
how can you possibly market letting-go in a capitalist culture?
how do you present Jesus to a Promethean mind?
how do you talk about dying to a church trying to appear perfect?
this is […]
Filed by Joe at March 30th, 2007 under Quotes
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“Liberals are into ‘fight’ – fix it and change it; Conservatives flight, denying the massive institutional evils. Liberals deny the vertical arm of the cross (transcendence); conservatives the horizontal (breadth and inclusivity).”
(Richard Rohr)
Filed by Joe at March 15th, 2007 under Quotes
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“We have for too long been reading sacred texts from our dualistic consciousness, split from the very mystery that the story of the birth of Jesus seeks to reveal.”
(Richard Rohr - Jesus in the Manger: A Story of Transformation)
Filed by Joe at March 8th, 2007 under Quotes
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“As we’re bombarded with the agendas and slants of dozens of different newspapers, authors, entertainers, news programs, and disingenuous film-makers it becomes increasingly difficult to cut through the rhetoric and ideologies to the core of the issues. Film and television continue to tell us that true love can be found topless and drunk in […]
Filed by Joe at March 8th, 2007 under Quotes
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Wake, stand and feel your worth, O my soul.
Kneel and know the word that can save us all.
We are fuel and fire both.
We are water.
Wed with wine and ghost.
We are wrought with breath and dirt, washed in second sight.
Woven through the earth, wreathed in rings of light.
Stand and feel your worth, O my soul.
Kneel and […]
Filed by Joe at February 28th, 2007 under Quotes, Current Sounds
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We’re more than carbon and chemicals
We are the image of the invisible
Free will is ours and we can’t let go
We are the image of the invisible
We can’t allow this, the quiet cull
We are the image of the invisible
So we sing out this, our canticle
We are the image of the invisible
We all were lost now we […]
Filed by Joe at February 5th, 2007 under Quotes
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