Cultivating Wonder.

March 15, 2012 By 4 Comments
Bailey-WNW

This is the first in my promised series of reflections on Liberty Hyde Bailey's poetry. [ Bailey's collection of poems Wind and Weather, has just been released by The Englewood Review of Books as a bargain-priced Kindle ebook.  It's well worth it! ] Miracle Yesterday the twig was brown and bare; To-day the glint of green is there To-morrow will be leaflets spare; I know no thing so wondrous fair No miracle so strangely rare. I wonder what will next be there. One of the great losses in the post-industrial age, is the disappearance of wonder.  Our pace of life moves so … [Read more...]

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Submerging Church [Ekklesia Project Guest Post by Lee Wyatt]

February 20, 2012 By 4 Comments
Unterwasser

[ On July 5-7, The Ekklesia Project will hold its annual gathering in Chicago, which will be on the theme of Slow Church.  Between now and July, we will be running a series of lguest reflections here by folks connected with the E.P. We've asked guest posters to reflect on the meaning of Slow Church from their own local contexts. More info on the E.P. gathering.  ] Today's reflection, the first in the series, is by Lee Wyatt. Though we live (or have lived) in the age of the Emerging/Emergent Church, I have a different proposal for a new vision of church. I call it the Submerging Church! … [Read more...]

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