Category: quote
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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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eberhard arnold on awe and mystery
For my wife, my rednoW friends, and anyone else who actively cultivates a sense of wonder… The man with a sense of awe feels an ultimate mystery in everything that lives. He grows aware that the living, creative Spirit must be greater than all created life. Man stands amazed and awed before the tree in…
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“then the whisper put on flesh”
A few days back I mentioned that my friend (and now co-worker) Michael and I were beginning to read Then the Whisper Put on Flesh: New Testament Ethics in an African American Context by Brian K Blount. Dr Blount is the new president of Union Theological Seminary after teaching New Testament ethics at Princeton Seminary…
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consuming jesus
This morning I finished reading Consuming Jesus: Beyond Race and Class Divisions in a Consumer Church by Paul Louis Metzger. This is one of the best books I’ve read this year (along with Surprised by Hope and The Gospel and a Pluralist Society). Because I may be reviewing the book elsewhere, I’ll hold off from…
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christian witness as invitation to pilgrimage
Missional Church is one of those books I return to with some regularity. On Wednesday, while working from Caribou on my upcoming sermon I came across the following passage. After showing it to Bob (who was also working out of the coffee shop), he said something like, “You should just stand up, read that, pray…
David W. Swanson 