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Thoughts on Gender in the Church

Posted in church geekery, emergent, goats and sheep on 14 March 2007 - 25 אדר 5767

A (GOA) Priest’s wife, writing from Portland, posts her thoughts on reading a book about a priest who has left the ministry. Her words on why people leave the ministry are moving (especially as it is her husband’s life) but her words on Gender and Language fill the body of the post. Coming as [...]

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A Prayer for Our Enemies

Posted in goats and sheep, politics on 14 March 2007 - 25 אדר 5767

from - Prayers Suitable for the Times in Which We Live. Originally printed in Charleston, 1861.
O God, we beseech Thee, forgive and pardon our enemies, and give us that measure of They grace, that for their hatred we may love them; for their cursing we may bless them; for their injury we may do them [...]

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Welcoming Lover

Posted in evangelism, goats and sheep, lit101 on 12 March 2007 - 23 אדר 5767

LOVE BADE Me welcome, yet my soul drew back,
Guilty of dust and sin.
But quick-ey’d Love, observing me grow slack
From my first entrance in,
Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning
If I lack’d anything.
“A guest,” I answer’d, “worthy to be here”;
Love said, “You shall be he.”
“I, the unkind, the ungrateful? ah my dear,
I cannot look on thee.”
Love took [...]

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Lunch for 10K with no reservations?

Posted in evangelism, goats and sheep, other paths, politics on 12 March 2007 - 23 אדר 5767

VIA The Inclusive Church Blog we learn about Sikh ministry:
Every Sikh temple throughout the world has a Langar (Punjabi for “free kitchen”). This is not a soup kitchen. It’s not exclusively for the poor, nor exclusively for the Sikh community. Volunteering in the cooking, serving and cleaning process is a form of active spiritual practice [...]

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