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jeffreyoverstreet:

Don’t miss this. It opens in Seattle on Nov. 12th.

November 19 in San Francisco and Berkeley. More info and dates here: http://www.wastelandmovie.com/screenings.html

God of Cana feast and autumn reaping
Your children blessed with gifts unceasing
Daily your presence near; great thanks we give
Joyful, in your pastures, we ever live.

God of Cana feast and autumn reaping
Your children blessed with gifts unceasing
Daily your presence near; great thanks we give
Joyful, in your pastures, we ever live.

4 tales of strangers who became my neighbors today

1. Bus Companion—We’ll call him Eric. As we rode the otherwise empty S bus from the hospital parking deck to the business school, Eric told our…

I tried this on Monday after hearing the story, and I think I’ll keep it up for a while.

My fellow theologically inclined Andrew reflects on the recent op-ed “Congregations Gone Wild” in the NYT.

If anything, the root problem with much preaching today is that it allows itself to get carried along by cultural expectations. For a preacher willing to preach “costly grace” (to use Bonhoeffer’s phrase), the result is often a congregation quickened by the activity of the Spirit.

I find Andrew’s critiques compelling and convicting: I am certainly guilty of letting a consumerist, self-centered mindset shape the way I see the religious leaders and congregations in my life. Yet it is precisely because of my pursuit of “lovers less wild” that I find myself drawn to clergy who don’t discount the cost of discipleship. And for the record, the Rev. Thompson is just such a person.

H/T to my dear friend Tessa

Mea culpa

Sorry for the double dose of my tweets fellow tumbrs. The extra bird has now flown the coop.

for those of you who haven’t heard, the new caedmon’s call record raising up the dead is now available for pre-order at www.caedmonscall.com (the official release is sept. 14). for those who don’t understand why i’m mentioning this, a little context. i was with caedmon’s from their founding…

Ah…to be an NPR inter…

being too ‘busy’ is an impediment to one’s relationship with God.”

Amen. I have so much left to learn on this one. Better start now.

This proves, once again, that Carl is the man. Maybe he’ll leave that message on my answering machine…