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Use Me
Hello there! Remember me? I used to blog here. Well, I still do but more rarely these days. Here's what I've learned: I can write blogs or I can write a book, but I can't do both. I've got a deadline for a book tentatively entitled Seventy Times Seven: The ...
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The Cross is a Scandal on Every Level
The Cross is a Scandal on Every Level
The Cross is a scandal on every level
A king with a crown of thorns
A death march processional
Acclamation by insult
It’s a macabre coronation
The Cross is a scandal on every level
You say he won a war?
You can’t win a war that way
You have to kill ...
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Election
This is for the armchair theologians out there.
Election.
The Bible talks about it.
The Church has debated it.
Here's my take on it.
Calvinism makes the mistake of confusing the election of Israel for a vocation with the election of an individual for salvation.
This is a tragic mistake fraught with enormous implications.
Here is my ...
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Crassus and the Appian Way
(A slightly reworked rerun. I was digging around in my archieves and decided to bump it up.)
I promise you a new Rome.
I promise you a new Empire.
-Marcus Licinius Crassus
Went down the road to Damascus,
The road to Mandalay
Met the ghost of Caesar
On the Appian Way
He said, It's hard to ...
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LEAP!
For those who have been asking for the Leap! poem, here it is...
LEAP!
And shall I go on being casual and numb?
Pretending
Pretending that I know something about this being I so glibly call God
Or shall I dare to encounter Him?
Him
The One with whom I have to do
The One who can never ...
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Fallen
In Frederick Buechner's novel Godric, the twelfth century holy man makes a pilgrimage to Rome seven centuries after its fall and says...
I carried Aedwen on my shoulders up a hill where goats leapt at their lecheries and dropped their berries through the fallen halls where Caesar and his lords had ...
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No walk in the park
Philip and I explored the Dreamweaver couloir in Rocky Mountain National Park today.
Dreamweaver is the couloir south of the Flying Buttress below Mount Meeker
Dreamweaver is the snowfield on the left
Working at it
A walk in the park
Philip doing the Dreamweaver
Transitioning from snow to rock is the tricky part
It's kinda like that
Those ...
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I’m Not Here
I'm not inside your computer.
I'm not in cyber space.
I'm not here.
I'm in the mountains with the whole family.
So no blog. Just a quote, a book, and a song.
The QUOTE Peri just read to me:
"I don't think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is ...
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For Whom The Bell Tolls
June 25, 2009.
Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett.
Two American-culture icons.
Dead on the same day.
The cynic says,
Why all the news coverage for Jacko and Farrah? There's more important news than the death of celebrities.
That's one way of looking at it.
But there's another way of looking at it.
What's really making news is Death. ...
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The Christ Illuminated Life
The following is not a fully developed essay, as I often do when posting a blog, but just some thoughts I will share in our staff chapel tomorrow morning. Feel free to read them if you like.
"The true light which enlightens everyone was coming into the world." -John 1:9
Once a ...
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