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Peter Buffet’s description of society’s perpetual poverty machine, reminiscent of John Perkins “we don’t need more non-profits”.  Both point toward why I am (trying) to be exit the investment of my efforts in charity, give away, doing for and not … Continue reading →

Organizations are weird.  Churches in particular. The mixed messages we send. I attend worship with a congregation who laments that there are so few young families and children attending.  “Oh, woe is us.  We want a vibrant community. Somebody do … Continue reading →

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-faith/wp/2013/07/31/what-grows-in-a-garden/ “people of faith across the country who aren’t in the headlines but who are making love visible and are doing it in a garden.” “our desire for real food is bound up in our spiritual desire to be fed.” … Continue reading →

How simple it can be to assume our own understanding of the world is the only understanding. Or the only right understanding.  Understanding Your Host Culture is a good introduction. I think we would be wise to recognize that cultural … Continue reading →

Barna’s Ten Stops Toward Maximum Faith.  http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2011/05/06/ten-stops-toward-maximum-faith/ Claims that the biblical path is leaping from 3 to 7. 3. Skipping 1 & 2 Concerned about the implications of personal sin. 4. Confess sins and ask Jesus Christ to be their … Continue reading →

http://www.preachingtoday.com/illustrations/2013/march/7032513.html?utm_source=leadership-html&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_term=10070778&utm_content=163774289&utm_campaign=2013 World Bank’s Voices of the Poor lack of material things such as food, money, clean water, medicine, housing ==> a place for handouts of money and material goods sense of shame, inferiority, powerlessness, humiliation, fear, hopelessness, social isolation, voicelessness … Continue reading →

http://www.benetvision.org/Ideas_In_Passing/03_11_13.html Dissent comes out of the depth of the heart and exists only in service to what both sides say that they are each committed to preserving. out of a soul in anguish over life that must be bartered in … Continue reading →

http://www.giftedforleadership.com/2013/02/from_fulltime_ministry_to_urba.html?utm_source=leadership-html&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_term=10070778&utm_content=157794574&utm_campaign=2013

http://www.panhala.net/archive/wild_geese.html http://heatherplett.com/2013/03/you-do-not-have-to-be-good/ http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_listening_to_shame.html http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability.html http://blog.ted.com/2013/03/20/brene-brown-interviewed-by-oprah-in-a-two-part-episode-of-super-soul-sunday/ “…when we our lose tolerance for vulnerability, joy becomes foreboding” Cultivating Gratitude and Joy gratitude is a practice “…in a culture of scarcity, we are all chasing the extraordinary…” http://www.psychalive.org/2012/01/how-to-begin-again-from-wounds-to-wisdom-by-diane-renz-lp/ http://www.patheos.com/blogs/nadiabolzweber/2013/03/sermon-one-more-year-for-figs-and-crap/

My first attempts at sketch noting while reading Ken Wilber’s A Spirituality That Transforms.  I’m hooked!!! Wilber’s writings are just beyond my comprehension.  Although I have some cognitive understanding, I know it is a shallow one.  Through a glass darkly…. … Continue reading →