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Category Archives: Theory and Theology
Embracing Time Over Space
We have two choices in how we relate to the world around us: we can choose to embrace time or space. It’s an “either, or” moment by moment choice. Most of us choose (most often) to embrace space, which includes … Continue reading
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Open and Closed Mode Thinking and the Sabbath
Years ago, in a class designed to help business leaders think creatively, I was introduced to a concept called open and closed mode thinking. This concept has helped me ever since! Here’s the gist of it: * Imagine a funnel. … Continue reading
Being, Having and Appearing
From my first semester ethics class, I learned from a scholar named Stanley Hauerwas, “We can only live in the world we’ve learned to see. We can only see the world we’ve learned to say.” I’ve always been a fan … Continue reading
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Sabbath Shift: Thoughtful Living
There is a Jewish Sabbath prayer that I love: Days pass, Years vanish, And we walk sightless among miracles. What would enable us to better see the miracles of God? Much of the answer is found in the reflection and … Continue reading
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Watchman Nee on “Sitting, then Walking”
A well-read friend of mine read a bit of my blog and pointed me to a classic Christian author whom I’ve been missing out on all these years: Watchman Nee. Nee became a Christian in China in 1920, and ultimately … Continue reading
Six plus one does not equal seven
While I was researching Sabbath keeping last semester, I came across a compelling article by Rob Bell in Relevant Magazine. Rob tackles the purpose of advent. As he explores why it’s important to wait through the season of advent, he … Continue reading
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Tagged delight, groove, Rob Bell, Sabbath keeping, seven
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Dr. Seuss and the Sabbath
A few days ago, I rounded the corner of my room to see my eldest son playing a Dr. Seuss game on the PBS kids website, donning an oversized red and white striped stovepipe hat on his head. Ashton wasn’t … Continue reading
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Is Sabbath keeping a lost art??
In his book Celebration of Disciplines, Richard Foster talks about how fasting as a spiritual discipline is becoming, he feels, a lost art. It’s difficult to know how to begin and end a fast, Foster points out, because most of … Continue reading
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A better story
God wrote a beautiful story for our lives that offers order and rhythm. To many of us, this story reads like a fairytale…it feels unattainable in the world today. For those who live in the story, there is a sense … Continue reading
One story: producing more and having it all
Whether or not we realize it, we are all living in stories. The stories are constructed by society, by our idealogy, by good marketers, and even by our friends. We’ve all picked a story, although for most of us, this … Continue reading
