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From My Reading – August
“The beginning is always today” (Mary Wollstonecraft). ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ “Hope makes room for love in the world. We can all share it, we can all believe in it, even if we are radically different in every other … Continue reading
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From My Reading – July
“The beginning is always today” (Mary Wollstonecraft). ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ “Hope makes room for love in the world. We can all share it, we can all believe in it, even if we are radically different in every other … Continue reading
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From My Reading – June
“In his prayer for the church in John 17 Jesus seems to say that the church’s whole project of communicating the love of God to the world hangs on believers being one, not just in our invisible unity while visibly … Continue reading
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Tagged Brother Lawrence, Dr. David Steindel-Rast, Etty Hillesum, Karen Milioto, Marian Wright Edelman, Rachel Carson, Susan Cain
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From My Reading – May
“The way of the cross looks like failure. In fact, we could say that Christianity is about how to win by losing, how to let go creatively, how the only real ascent is descent. We need to be more concerned with … Continue reading
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From My Reading – April
“For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person … Continue reading
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Tagged Cornel West, Daisaku Ikeda, Howard Thurman, Mark Nepo, Ram Dass, Richard Rohr, Viktor Frankl
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From my Reading – February
“We should honor the gifts of the mind to understand and make sense of religious experience. A framework of convictions provides a circumference for the practice of faith. For instance, I’ll sign on to a declaration proclaiming God is the … Continue reading
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Tagged Father Greg Boyle, Kristin Lin, Madeleine L'Engle, Malconm Guite, Meister Eckhart, Wes Granberg-Michaelson
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From My Reading – January
“Jesus never told us to put our trust in the larger institutions of culture or even the church. That doesn’t mean they are bad or that we should abandon them, but we must recognize that they are also subject to … Continue reading
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