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Category Archives: Living as Apprentices
There’s a Cop! Watch Out
LIVING AS APPRENTICES “THERE’S A COP! Watch out!” When I married a black man, one of the many things I was not prepared for was a hyper-vigilance for police cars and police officers. I was raised in a white middle … Continue reading
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Tagged discrimination, Eric Warner, Michael Brown, Michael Gerson, police brutality, Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin
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Who Do You Say You Are?
LIVING AS APPRENTICES “The ultimate challenge for us all can be found inside this question: Who do we say we are? What do we have to say for ourselves, both individually and as a community with others.” … Continue reading
Befriending our Darkness
LIVING AS APPRENTICES “Non-violence requires that we befriend our own darkness and brokenness rather than projecting it onto another. This, in turn, connects us with our fundamental oneness with each other, even in conflict.” Pat Farrell OSF You may recognize … Continue reading
Posted in Karen's journey, Living as Apprentices
Tagged brokenness, Golden Rule, Pat Farrell, Sydney J. Harris, the story of the prodigal son
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‘Tis a Gift to Be Simple – Thanksgiving, 2014
LIVING AS APPRENTICES I was in the process of sending an on-line card to some friends for Thanksgiving Day when I ran across the song Simple Gifts. This lilting melody always charms me and creates a longing for simpler living, simpler … Continue reading
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Tagged Joseph Brackett, Shakers, Simple Gifts, Thanksgiving
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On Being Irrelevant
LIVING AS APPRENTICES In his column Heart to Heart on the Renovare website, Nathan Foster has written a delightful essay on the importance of being irrelevant. He bases it on a quote by Henri Nouwen in his book In the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aslan, Eustace, Nathan Foster, Renovare, vainglory, Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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What I Learned from My Banker
LIVING AS APPRENTICES I now have a personal banker! Given my life-long meager income and my husband’s illness, I would never have thought of needing a “banker.” But in the last several months Josh made suggestions that I would never … Continue reading
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Tagged disciples, financial planning, spiritual growth, Twelve Step programs
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What’s Your Theology of Food?
LIVING AS APPRENTICES Who knew that chocolate plantations in Ghana profit from child slavery and that mercenaries terrorize, maim, and kill to control the banana trade in Central America? And now that we know, what do we do about it? … Continue reading
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Tagged deforestation GMOs, Theology of Food
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