The Archives
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atlanta, creek, meditation, oklahoma-city, prayer
I found my creek
I grew up on a creek. The addition we lived in had been a Boy Scout camp before Oklahoma City sprawled out and turned it into subdivisions. The subdivision next door still had some of the sidewalks and outbuildings, and I’d occasionally go for a dip in the old Boy Scout pool. Northwest Oklahoma City […]
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deception, homosexuality, lies, prayer, ted-haggard
God answered Ted Haggard’s prayers
11.05.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on God answered Ted Haggard’s prayersLast Sunday, Ted Haggard prayed, “Father, help us this next week and a half as we go into national elections. And, Lord, we pray for our country. We pray that lies will be exposed. We pray that deception will be exposed.” Ask and you shall receive. (Hat tip.)
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al-gore, falwell, gospel-of-thomas, hillary-clinton, jonah, leadership, lewis-black, opossum, pneumatology, pope, prayer, yom-kippur
Scribe Jamboree: 09/29/2006
Linky link goodness from the folks at The Daily Scribe. (The Scribe just changed its engine for a new model, so if you haven’t checked the Scribe out lately, check it out for all the new groovy features rolling out over the next while.) Al Gore as Jonah, Planet Earth as God—a cartoon! (JVoices) Lewis […]
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lectio-divina, prayer, spiritual-reading, world-prayer
More spiritual reading fodder
08.13.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on More spiritual reading fodderRoot and Source directed me to this collection of “World Prayers” from many different religions. You can browse through the directory or bookmark this link to pull up a random one each time you visit. (The “spiritual reading” series should resume shortly.)
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evening-prayer, liturgy, morning-prayer, prayer, unitarian, UU
Can UUs do (morning) prayer?
02.21.06 | Permalink | 26 CommentsWe discussed prayer at our 20/30something discussion group a couple nights back. (For those of you who aren’t UU, prayer isn’t much of a UU thing these days, although there are certainly exceptions.) During the conversation I found myself saying that I missed the richness of good old fashioned liturgical prayer, like in the Book […]
