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Everybody Wants to Rule the World

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Categories: food for thought, General

Aaaand there’s another popular song title hijacked. 🙂

Okay, I know I said I wasn’t going to write a post about Chick-Fil-A (insinuated is more what I did)–and technically, this post isn’t about Chick-Fil-A, so I’m (sort of) keeping my word. Or my insinuation. Whatever.

But now that the uproar has died down a little bit, I feel like that whole ordeal showed us something about humanity in general–something that if we’re serious about living what we say we believe, and practicing what we preach, we should not overlook:

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Beauty From the Mess

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Given the sleep-deprived ranting of my previous post, I felt a follow-up was in order. 🙂

If you read that post and were praying–thank you. I realize that complaining about troubles on a film shoot might seem a bit trivial, but it was of great importance to us because we feel like this film could really help to launch The Director’s career–so we had a lot of emotion invested in it. That being said, beauty came from the mess, and I’d like to share a little about that with you.

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Atrocities and the Nagging Question

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Categories: General, Rantings

Considering the recent events that have unfolded here in Colorado, I am going to interrupt my current two-part series on “A Changing Sense of Mission.” I promise I’ll finish that thought within the next couple of weeks, but for now I have some more pressing thoughts to process.

I woke up Friday morning in fairly good spirits, despite being a bit tired and loopy from the busy-ness of the past couple of weeks. I got on Facebook to find a friend from back in Tulsa posting, “Praying for the people in Aurora, CO.” I scrolled down and found several other messages like this. What happened in Aurora last night? I wondered.

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A Changing Sense of Mission (part 1)

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Categories: changing mindsets, General, missional

My friend Kathy recently posted about why the word “missional” bothers her. One of several reasons she cited was: “It feels pretty cruddy to be someone’s mission.”

True dat.

The other reasons she gives are pretty valid, too, but this one really resonated with me because since my journey of deconstruction from institutional Christianity began, I’ve found myself on the radar of some well-meaning Christians, as well, and felt like I had become part of their personal “mission” as they tried subtly (or so they thought) to steer me back to the fold. (Assuming, of course, that I’d actually left said fold.) I’m saying I know what it’s like to be targeted in that way, and Kathy’s right–it feels pretty cruddy.

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What I’m Thankful For

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Categories: General, Meanderings (look it up), Tags: , , ,

Thanksgiving isn’t until Thursday, but for us it starts today.

We’ve got plans with some friends on Thanksgiving itself, but this afternoon the loose-knit group of creative friends who have sort of adopted us will be having their annual Thanksgiving party. We did this last year, and we had a blast, so we’re looking forward to it.

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Fear Not

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Categories: food for thought, General, Tags: ,

So the other day, The Director and I were talking, and somehow the conversation got onto the topic of fear, and the role that it plays in injustice. We began to observe how in so many cases, an injustice done to an individual or an entire people group happens because someone else was afraid. 

It’s uncanny, actually, if you think about it, how many times you can see the fear factor in injustice.

  • When a parent is overprotective and overly strict on a child, it is usually due to fear (either fear for the child’s safety, or fear of losing control).
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Ten Years Ago Today–and Today

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September 11, 2001.

9/11 is one of those moments where most people can remember what they were doing when they first heard the news.

Ten years ago today, I was homeless. Not on-the-streets homeless, but between homes, staying with my family in an extended stay hotel. I first heard the news about the first plane on the car radio, as I was driving our laundry down the street to a nearby laundromat. The laundromat had a television, so as I (hurriedly) did the laundry, I watched in horror as the drama continued to unfold. By the time I was finished, the Pentagon had been hit, and we all knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that America was under attack.

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Questions of Authority

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Categories: General, Meanderings (look it up), moments of truth, Tags: , , ,

Sorry for not posting in a little while…I sort of missed my weekly slot last weekend because I filled in as worship leader at the church community where I used to lead, so the current worship leader could go off to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival and see Mumford and Sons play while it was snowing in June in the mountains and see the clouds part to reveal the snow-covered mountains just as they finished playing.

Lucky stiff. Anyhow.

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