Postcard from a Friend
My friend and pastor Rick Scruggs wrote a great blog post a few weeks ago. I thought I would share it with you here. Not all learning comes from books. I’ve been learning some things from my granddaughters. As a parent I soon came to realize that God teaches up plenty from our kids and…
Continue readingIf I Were You
(Wayne Watson, © 1995 Material Music/Word ASCAP) If I were You . . . if I ran this placeThere wouldn’t be no mercyThere wouldn’t be no graceAnd people that wander off and go astrayI’d make real sure that they would payYeh, that’s what I’d doIf I were You And if I were You . .…
Continue readingSeals and A Serious Man
I went to see the Coen brothers’ latest movie last Saturday night. It is called A Serious Man and is a dark comedy about how we understand our existence and the meaning of life. As the directors are Jewish they have drawn heavily from their understanding of Jewish faith, customs, and the nominal Jewish culture…
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. . . we agree with Walter Brueggemann’s contention that one of the greatest dangers in our time is the “monopoly of our imagination.” Bowing before an idol, Brueggemann argues, is fundamentally a matter of “yielding the imagination” so that the world is experienced and interpreted in terms established by the idol. Consequently, “the key…
Continue readingForgiving The Church
Henry Nouwen on forgiving the church: When we have been wounded by the Church, our temptation is to reject it. But when we reject the Church it becomes very hard for us to keep in touch with the living Christ. When we say, “I love Jesus, but I hate the Church,” we end up losing…
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