Category: culture
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eberhard aronld
I’ve been slowly picking through Eberhard Arnold: A Testimony to Church Community from His Life and Writings about the founder of the Bruderfof Communities. The last section of the book is a collection of correspondence from those who knew Arnold. One of these letters recalls this interaction, At a conference we asked Eberhard Arnold how…
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culture making
Once a week on the blog I post a set of 4 links. These links are somewhat random, but they are things that seem interesting enough to pass on to you. For example, last week’s topics included swimming holes, original sin, neighbors, and electoral politics. This week’s links post is featuring just one website. On…
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guest post: a question for michael
Michael Washington was one of the first people I met at Wheaton College Graduate School in 2000. Even though we only had one class together we quickly became friends. Maggie and I had just been married for a year and Michael was soon to be married to Dawn. Over the past 8 years our friendship…
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martin luther king jr, 40 years today
Ben, make sure you play Take My Hand, Precious Lord in the meeting tonight. Play it real pretty. These were Martin Luther King Jr’s last words, 40 years ago today. Moments earlier James Earl Ray shot King while he was standing outside of his room on the 2nd floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in…
David W. Swanson 