Tag: reflections
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The Love of Reading
Multiple times a week, a thought goes through my head that I’ve never really written down before: “I love that my daughters read.” If you went through my photos, sprinkled throughout you’ll find random photos I take of my kids, fully absorbed in a book. Without exception, every one of those photos was taken by…
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A Better Way To Be Here
It’s been about a week since I’ve been back from a one-week vacation in Arizona. I’ll post about that trip later… or at least a photo dump or something. It was so wonderful to be away. I don’t think I realized how much I needed to be away until I was finally away. While in…
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Are You a Magician?
A few weeks ago I started the M’Cheyne Bible Reading plan after learning about it in a class lecture and being inspired by our class discussion about spiritual disciplines to go ahead with it.[1] It’s four chapters a day, and if you stick with it, you end up reading through the OT once, the NT…
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Gender Roles Short Circuit the Path to Self Knowledge
I had mentioned in a previous post how I had read and discussed Aimee Byrd’s Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood with the pastoral staff at my church. One of our early questions/critiques was that Byrd never defines what it means to be a man or a woman. Our initial discussion surmised that she did…
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A Thought on Church Planting
About a week ago, I attended a panel presentation/discussion on church planting. Actually… I’ve been attending this fellowship of local ministry people called QueensConnexus that is trying to create a community from which to plant churches in Queens; I’ve been joining their meetings for a few months now. I was always weary of joining such…
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Revisiting Faith, Gender, and Identity
I’ve been meaning to write about faith, gender, and identity for a while… or at the very least put my current thoughts in process here like a time capsule so I can trace my progression in the future. I’ve definitely come to some conclusions that I would not have been able to articulate a few…