Posted on February 1, 2009 by wanderingtree
Interesting that I am attending two significantly different churches at the moment: Emmanuel Episcopal, a low church Epsicopalian congregation, and Discovery Church, a contemporary worship, non-denominational church. Both have a significantly different approach to liturgy, but this week, at Discovery’s Young Professionals Group (a focus group for Christians in their 30s), and during Father Malcolm’s [...]
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Posted on January 25, 2009 by wanderingtree
This story may not be just as the Lord told it, and yet may contain in its mirror as much of the truth as we are able to receive, and as will afford us scope for a life’s discovery. The modifying influence of the human channels may be essential to God’s revealing mode.
It was one [...]
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Posted on January 20, 2009 by wanderingtree
“There is no massing of men with God. When he speaks of gathered men, it is a spiritual body, not as a mass.”
Okay, so I realize I’ve let quite a few days slip without posting on MacDonald. Rather than compiling the bunch that I missed, and trying to make a broad sweeping statement about them [...]
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Posted on January 10, 2009 by wanderingtree
9: Escape is Hopeless
The man whose deeds are evil, fears the burning. But the burning will not come the less that he fears it or denies it. Escape is hopeless. For Love is inexorable. Our God is a consuming fire. He shall not come out till he has paid the uttermost farthing
10: The Word
But herein [...]
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Posted on November 7, 2008 by wanderingtree
Much talk of gender in my world recently. I had my students watch Elizabeth to warm them up for our studies of Renaissance literature, a wonderful movie which emphasizes (or at least heavily dramatizes) Queen Elizabeth I’s rise to power, particularly with regard to her identity as an unmarried woman. The movie offers a symbolic [...]
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Posted on October 16, 2008 by wanderingtree
A recent post online detailed the difficulties inherent in a Christian-Pagan dialogue with missional Christians. Pagans see themselves as targets for conversion, “dehumanized” as mere objects of saving. They are considered by some missional Christians to be “lost” and “unreached.”
This discussion cuts to the core of ecumenical framework of religious tolerance needed to replace [...]
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Posted on September 28, 2008 by wanderingtree
I have this picture on the desktop of my computer:
Beautiful, right? It’s not a picture I took myself- this is simply included with the “sample pictures” folder that came with Vista. Ever since my school has upgraded their technology (overhead projectors, plugins, etc.), I have been using Powerpoint to present notes from my own [...]
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