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My name is Laura and these are the wonderings of a theologically trained ponderer (me), writing out-loud, while working to help form her small corner of the church.Read more about Laura and the blog:
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Author Archives: Laura
Chosen, Called, and Loved–but Stubborn
1 Now this is what the Lord says. He created you, people of Jacob; he formed you, people of Israel. He says, “Don’t be afraid, because I have saved you. I have called you by name, and you are mine. … Continue reading
Ecclesiology Wrap August 15 – August 21
Brother Maynard: To Clarify This Journey: Paul Wilkinson reposts Brother Maynard’s emergingchurch.info article from 03.05. Back when it was first posted, the concepts resonated, but now even more so. It answers the question, what are we looking for? Very important … Continue reading
Insight: Spiritual Formation via Issler’s Wasting Time With God
Neighborly love is a love of hospitality to others and is a broad, catchall category of love, which includes (a) those for whom there may be a limited expectation of return for favors, but much less than with close friends … Continue reading
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Neighborhood: Built by Love and Shared in Worship
In the previous post in this series, I thought through three concepts underlying a network of neighborhoods and arrived at provisional definitions of each concept: Neighborhood: a love-formed relational space, usually composed of persons in physical proximity Value of Ordinary … Continue reading
Insight: Education
What we need more than anything else is not textbooks, but text-people. It is the personality of the teacher which is the text that the pupils read, the text they will never forget. – Abraham Joshua Heschel, quoted in Michael … Continue reading
