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My Blog Has Moved
Dear Readers,
After a year with Beliefnet, I've decided to move to my own domain for my blogging. It's been a fine year -- some things worked, other things didn't. But in the end, I'll be a better blogger on my own. My thanks to the Bnet editorial staff; they've been very supportive.
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posted 12:13:57pm Nov. 13, 2009 |
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The Most Important Cartoon of the Year
By Steve Breen, San Diego Tribune, October 18, 2009
posted 8:51:22am Oct. 25, 2009 |
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Social Media for Pastors
Following up on Christianity21, we at JoPa Productions are developing a series of boot camps for pastors who want to learn about and utilize social media tools like blogging, Twitter, and Facebook. These are one-day, hands-on learning experiences, currently offered in the Twin Cities and soon
posted 10:45:52am Oct. 22, 2009 |
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Ending Christian Euphemisms: "Fundamentalist"
I've taken some heat in the comment section for using yesterday's post on "unbiblical" and a "higher view of scripture" as a thin foil for my own disregard of biblical standards. To the contrary, I was pointing to the use of the word unbiblical as a stand-in for a particularly thin hermeneutic. Ther
posted 10:15:41am Oct. 21, 2009 |
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Why You Should Get GENERATE
Last week at Christianity21, GENERATE Magazine debuted. With the tag line, "an artifact of the emergence conversation," it fit perfectly at the gathering. When I actually got around to reading it last weekend, I was truly surprised at how good it is.There have been several efforts to begin a paper j
posted 3:14:37pm Oct. 20, 2009 |
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posted January 9, 2009 at 12:57 pm
I’ve read Piaget. And a host of others. I was the Mother of a “gifted” child. A prodigy, actually.
My once four-year-old once asked eighteen different priests/preachers/elders “Did God create evil?” Only one had an answer for her. And, no, we had nt prompted her. She had come up with this one on her own. Cognitive ability, logic, reason, et al are often found in infants…much to their parents initial delight, pride…and dismay.
Not all kids are the same. The extremely sensitive child is abused by the concrete notion of a fire-and-brimstone hell (and the Protestant insistence that you are going there, do not pass go, do not collect $200. unless you Roman Road it) and we do them a great violence by teaching them such (with spurious images of things unseen… now which commandment was it that asked us not to make such images???)… And this sensitivity waxes and wanes as the child grows and changes. Many parents miss it.
Children can understand Grace, It depends on how it is taught, modeled, fostered, shown. I’ve raised 2 children and I’m the GrandMother of three Boys. I interact with them almost daily. Showing them Grace is something they actually get from the time they are very, very little.
Kids are smarter than you think. Why else would Jesus welcome them and bless them and tell US to be as they are in faith?
I do not deny the existence of hell, but I would rather my Little Ones concentrate on the existence of God and their need of Him and His Grace; that they are born into His Covenant Family; baptised into His Church; and that He sent His Son to defeat sin and death so that they could have right relationship with Him. There is plenty of time to talk about sin and the personalness of that in their lives. Later.