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The Lord, The Blues and The Art of Being Smooth
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Contemplation and adoration of a postmodern pentecostal mystic
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The Parable of the Coffee Shop
My favorite metaphysical image from Leaper by Geoffrey WoodThe parable of the coffee shop shows that the kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man who goes into a coffee shop and orders an espresso.As the man talks across the counter, the coffee guy m...
Tear me down
Matt Moore's Tear me down provided a sound track to my prayer Matthew 25:40 - “The King will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.’”These words provided the b...
Saints of service
At first thought one might place Mother Teresa in the Social Justice stream of Christianity. As I think on her life though, I see a mix of influences, Holiness and Contemplative, but the most predominate being the Incarnational life.“The Incarnati...
Distressing Disguise
Several months ago I was wrestling with the idea that Jesus could be found in the hurting around me when I wrote: I can’t understand the image of Christ as stranger. How could he come to those beloved disciples on the road to Emmaus unrecognized? H...
Music Appreciation
Reflect on the fragmentation of spirituality in [modern development] comparable to the ecclectic diversity today in musical tastes (there are no groups today like the Beatles; there are no theologians like Karl Barth). Does this simply mean everyon...
