Category: mission
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how do i get into ministry? a response.
On Monday I posted a question left by one of this blog’s readers. Since then a few of you have left some helpful thoughts, ideas, and questions in response to Michael’s question. In fact, before reading further, take a look at these comments. Michael’s question taps into things I’ve thought about quite a bit over…
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growing home: a day at the farm
This summer we have done some produce shopping at Chicago’s Green City Market, a huge outdoor farmer’s market in Lincoln Park. One of the organizations we’ve become acquainted with at the market (thanks solely to my wife’s inquisitive nature) is Growing Home. On Saturday we drove out to Growing Home’s farm for their Harvest Fest.…
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the new friars
Scott Bessenecker doesn’t mince words in his 2006 book, The New Friars: The Emerging Movement Serving the World’s Poor. Never have there been thousands of people dying because they are dangerously overfed sharing the planet with billions who are dying because they cannot get enough calories to sustain life. (41) In this book Bessenecker is…
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papa festival (2)
One of the things we were curious about as we headed to the PAPA Festival last Thursday was who would show up. While we had joked that this would be a Christian hippie fest, in reality none of us were sure what to expect. According to my highly unscientific observations, there appeared to be a…
David W. Swanson 