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What is your place in history?
06.20.05 | Permalink | 4 CommentsIllinois Senator Barak Obama recently gave a commencement speech to the 2005 graduates of Knox College, asking "What is your place in history?" Davis Kusnet think we’ll be hearing this question more and more often from Obama, and others as they catch on.
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Heads up: WebUUs.com
06.17.05 | Permalink | Comments Off on Heads up: WebUUs.comThere’s a new and quite extensive feed of UU blogs available at WebUUs.com. I’ve discovered quite a few new reads in the last day or so.
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Matthew Fox: Good news or old news?
06.17.05 | Permalink | 4 CommentsWhat to say about Matthew Fox’s "New 95 Theses" and call for a "New Reformation?" (Hat tip to Paul Wilczynski, btw.) I have ambiguous feelings about Fox. I’m grateful for his inversion of Christian metaphors in books like Original Blessing, which came to me at an important time in my life. I’m embarassed by his […]
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Changing the rules of the game
06.13.05 | Permalink | 7 CommentsA friend advises me that I cannot change things unless I either (a) know the rules of the game or (b) control the rules of the game. Changing things when you control the rules of the game seems easy enough, although whether or not that change turns out to be for the good or the […]
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Passion tinged with responsibility
06.13.05 | Permalink | Comments Off on Passion tinged with responsibilityEven though she’s writing about preaching in particular, PeaceBang’s thoughtful comments are one of the best descriptions of what it’s like to be in the ministry that I’ve yet to read (emphasis mine): preaching is the aspect of ministry that brings me the most constant anxiety (which I am beginning to understand as "passion tinged […]
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Run, Lamont, run!
06.12.05 | Permalink | Comments Off on Run, Lamont, run!Hey, I wouldn’t believe it either if I hadn’t seen it myself. This fabulous piece of professional hauling equipment, worthy of royalty, is held together by no less than a frayed piece of rope. I guess they were out of duct tape. Hey, kid, if dad offers to build you a tree house, run!
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