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An Important Update

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Categories: current issues, healing wounds

I have continued to track the lively conversation that has been taking place on Jonathan Brink’s blog since he raised the question about the new Origins project and their all-male core leadership team. (You can check his first post here, and his follow-up post here.)

Since those posts went up, some interesting (and I believe, quite positive) developments have occurred.

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Standing Up for Our Sisters: The Conversation Jumps Up a Notch

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Categories: current issues, healing wounds

An important nerve has clearly been struck. And yesterday the conversation jumped up a notch.

Nearly three weeks ago, I was greatly moved by a post by Jeromy at A Mending Shift, talking about the suppression of women within the church, the ongoing wound, and the need for healing.

So I wrote “Why the Heart of Every Man Should Be Breaking“–which, in two weeks’ time, already has all appearances of becoming the most-read blog post I’ve ever written (which tells me just how deeply significant this particular topic is to people).

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God and Secrets and Missing the Point Again

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Categories: food for thought, Rantings

This morning I was thumbing through a popular Christian magazine I used to subscribe to. I no longer am a subscriber, but they keep sending me issues saying, “Your subscription is expired!” hoping I will re-subscribe.

Anywho…I was looking at the Christian book advertisements in it, and had the impulse to see how many times the word “secret” was employed to pitch the books.

I lost count. But it was more than a couple.

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So Now They Aren’t Secretaries; They Are "Administrative Professionals". Anyhow…Today Is Their Day

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Categories: fun, What the heck was THAT?

Do you ever wish we’d just name something and stick with it? I mean, instead of making it longer and more wordy?

Like “salespeople” in the stores are now “customer service experts”? Or “waiters” and “waitresses” are now “food service transport technicians?”

Today is Secretary’s Administrative Professionals Day. I know this, not because I have a secretary administrative professional working for me, but because I’ve been called in early to the flower shop this morning to deliver lots of flowers to secretaries administrative professionals all over town.

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Why I Am Still a "Christian"

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Categories: food for thought, Meanderings (look it up)

In a recent post, “Label Schmabel“, I talked about how I no longer feel comfortable with most of the labels I once associated with my faith. I won’t go into it all again here; read it if you need to catch up. 🙂

But toward the end of the post, I mentioned that there was one label I was still okay with–the word “Christian.” And I thought today I’d like to ‘splain why.

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A Tail of Two Zoos (or, Can You Tell the Difference?)

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Categories: random stuff

In the split photo above… the pic to the left was taken nearly two years ago, at an outing to the zoo.

The pic to the right was taken last week–same t-shirt, and as chance would have it…a different zoo.

Can you tell the difference between the two?

Hint: I’m wearing different sunglasses.

Just kidding. (Although the sunglasses are, in fact, different…I’m notorious for losing them.)

Most of the weight has been lost in the last 3 and a half months. This is why I am wearing the same shirt. This picture tells me it’s time to get a new one.

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Shortcuts, Buffer Zones and No-Brainers

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Categories: Meanderings (look it up), religion

Douglas Weaver made a comment on my last post on labels that got me thinking. Here’s a snippet of what he said:

“I think it goes back to that tendency toward religion that resides within us all. The carnal nature is hopelessly religious – always seeking a new method or form that will get us closer to God.”

I think he’s right, and I wonder what it is about humans that makes us so religious. Even people who are atheists, or people who claim no faith at all, quite often hold to their non-religion “religiously.” Why is that? Why is religion such a strong default posture for us?

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Label Schmabel

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Categories: food for thought, Meanderings (look it up)

I’ve recently come to realize that I’ve been having a bit of an identity crisis.

(And all the regular readers said in unison…”DUH!”)

No, really. I mean…I know I’m feeling the “being over 40” thing, but I’m not really talking about “mid-life” crisis here. Although it’s pretty amazing that this is happening at this stage of my life. Talk about timing. 🙂

You see, I’ve spent my whole life wearing some sort of label, some identification tag by which other people (especially Christians) could know what camp I stood with, what I believed, what the practice of my faith looked like. Actually, I’ve worn quite a few of these labels, so it’s not like I’ve stuck with one my whole life. I’ve changed name badges numerous times. Even so, I’ve felt okay as long as I was wearing some label. Or maybe it wasn’t the label itself, but the group of people that the label identified. Wearing the label made me feel…like I belonged.

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Step Up

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Categories: Things that are too good to keep

Something good, something powerful, is happening.

Please go read Jonathan Brink’s latest post, “A Call to Men.”

Especially if you are a man.

And don’t just read it.

Make a decision. Step up. And live it.

It is now apparent that something more is flowing through this conversation than just words and thoughts. It has taken on a life of its own.

In my lingo, I’d call it a “God thing.”

The hearts of men are being convicted and stirred. And hopefully, through it, the hearts of women will be healed, and their voices released.

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Continuing the Conversation…

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Categories: current issues, healing wounds, theological questions

My new blogger friend Reina, in response to Thursday’s post, shared a link to something she wrote in her own blog in January. With her permission, allow me to share an excerpt:

“…one of the things that struck me [in reading through the Bible] is how many prominent women are mentioned in every culture but that of the Jews and Christians. It would seem that God, my God, the God of the bible, introduced the idea that women should be subservient to men, and his people have been busy making an example of that to the rest of the world. Christians especially, seem to have done a excellent job of setting this example, ultimately culminating in the dark ages, when women were worth less than cattle.

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