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Your Greenham

If Greenham Common can be freed of “nukulur” weapons…
A website devoted to the Greenham Common Women: videos, music, interviews… very wonderful! Sadly it’s all in flash. There’s a good low-bandwidth site here, and the wiki has a little information as well.

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American Prophet

Generous Orthodoxy points us to a new Biography of W.E.B. Du Bois, American Prophet, including this great quote:
…[W]e are not Christians because we profess Thy name and celebrate the ceremonies and idly reiterate the prayers of the church, but only in so far as we really comprehend and follow the Christ spirit…

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Cost of Relocation…

Hmmm. While not as huge a financial deal as moving from SF to A’ville, A’ville to Buffalo seems good, too!
+$3,527 net change in disposable income.
The cost of living in Buffalo, NY is 0.1% lower than in Asheville, NC.
Employers in Buffalo, NY typically pay 12.5% more than employers in Asheville, NC.
Also some Totally Interesting [...]

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Toronto Pride - 1st Thoughts

Torontonian Hospitality:
I owe a deep annd hearty “thank you” to Greg, Jon and, most especially, David, for their hospitality this weekend. David hosted Brodie and me all weekend - including a fabu swimming pool many floors above the “gaybourhood”; Jon provided afternoon crash space twice, along with some tasty BBQ pork; and Greg’s house, [...]

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Third Affirmation

I’ve republished my original Eassy on Affirmation 3 of the 12 Phoenix Affirmations.
LOVING God: Celebrating the God whose Spirit pervades and whose glory is reflected in all of God’s Creation, including the earth and its ecosystems, the sacred and secular, the Christian and non-Christian, the human and non-human.

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Second Affirmation

I’ve reposted my original essay on the Affirmation 2 of the 12 Phoenix Affirmations
LOVING God: Listening for God’s Word which comes through daily prayer and meditation, through studying the ancient testimonies which we call Scripture, and through attending to God’s present activity in the world.

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First Affirmation

I’ve reposted my original essay on Affirmation 1 of the 12 Phoenix Affirmations
LOVING God: Walking fully in the path of Jesus, without denying the legitimacy of other paths God may provide humanity;

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Emergent Pipeline

What is Church? Over at Pomomusings, Adam is asking this very question. I’ve posted my sound-byte over there: “The community of people, living and dead, who are trying to follow God in the way of Jesus.” In the course of answering, I tried to write RATHER a lot more than a sound-byte, [...]

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St Hildegard’s Community

Hmm. EpiscoMergent:
We have tried to imagine and live out one possibility of a baptismal ecclesiology in conversation with emerging theologies, including feminist liberation theology. We foster a deep inner life personally and in community; we also promote significant ministries in the world and bring the joy and struggle of the world into the [...]

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the way i see it #250

Coming soon (or already) to a Venti Mocha near you:
In reality hell is not such an intention of God as it is an invention of man. God is love and people are precious. Authentic truth is not so much taught or learned as it is remembered. Somewhere in your pre-incarnate consciousness you were loved [...]

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