Jesus Creed
After a week off, here’s a new start to a year of Weekly Meanderings: |inline Read more
After a week off, here’s a new start to a year of Weekly Meanderings: |inline Read more
Thursday, on my way home from speaking at the Spiritual Formation Forum in Milwaukee (more about that later), I got a frantic call from our home from a man who is working on our windows. Cliff Peterson informed me of a “disaster.” A large tree had fallen on our neighbors’ home. Norm, his son, promptly went over to make sure Mrs. Kruckman was OK, and she was. |inline Read more
We now turn to a new book for our Friday is for Friends series: Why Church Matters by Jonathan Wilson. Those in low church traditions need this book, and those in stodgy high church traditions need this book,and those in the emerging movement need this book. I have been reading Jonathan’s stuff for years, and I hope you find him as stimulating as I do. |inline Read more
In James B. Torrance’s book, Worship, Community & The Triune God of Grace, we discover three models of worship: Unitarian, Existential, and Trinitarian. Today we look at the Existential model. |inline Read more
We finish the Song of Solomon today. The Song ends with the woman summoning her man to the bed: |inline Read more
Basing my reflections here on James B. Torrance, Worship, Community & the Triune God of Grace, I want to open up for conversation the topic of worship — and ask “What is it?” |inline Read more
Joel and Karla brought home Mary and Zion. Five weeks later, bundles and bundles of concerns and prayers, and lots of friends inquiring “How are the twins?” But, they’re home and Joel and Karla now begin a new phase of life. Congratulations to all of you! |inline Read more
And now her shepherd lover responds back: |inline Read more
Laura Barringer, our daughter, finished her school year of teaching yesterday. She’s a first grade teacher in the area. Public school teachers go at it, more or less, from the middle of August to the middle of June. We owe a lot to our public school teachers, and this might be a good time to write them a note and tell them. I should know about public school teachers, my family is full of them. |inline Read more
A perennial issue about the teachings of Jesus is his relationship to the Law, and it comes up in ordinary church life today: What is our relationship to the Law? Some say, “God’s Word. We follow it.” But it’s not that easy since no one practices the laws of Leviticus today completely. So, it’s good to see what Benedict XVI has to say. |inline Read more
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