Tag Archive: the way of Jesus

Trifle Not – Thoughts from the Edge

We always told our girls, "Give it your best effort." Our hope was to encourage them to work hard in school or on the playing field of whatever sport they chose to play. We could tell ...

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Staying … Leaving – Thoughts from the Edge

Words. Many offer a reason to follow. Persuasiveness. Curiosity. Jesus engaged a group who struggled to grasp the way he connected feeding a large crowd with himself. Manna. Bread of Life. He then used an evocative description to draw the audience either deeper, or as we would see repel them. "Unless you eat my flesh ...

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A Truly Human Response Creating a New Humanity

On our way home this weekend I picked up a small book. The Introduction was written by now Archbishop Desmond Tutu Emeritus. The title of his introduction is, "I diminish you, I diminish myself." He wrote with poignant reflection on life before the emerging new South Africa. He shared stories how one group had diminished ...

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Going Beyond the Normal

Once you consider how to get beyond conventional thinking no subject seems to be off limits. Much of the reading from my foray into "Readings in Postmodern Philosophy and Theology" has left me thinking. I know I am on the precipice and the slope looks slippery. What I mean is that often we only think in ...

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