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Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

Something shared from “Abbey of the Arts”

There will be an invitation. It will not come tied in ribbons nor a message streaming down from the sky.   There will be no Roman candles sizzling nor brilliant colors exploding overhead.   Instead there will be a soft whisper in your ear, something in a language you once knew and are trying to [...]

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Thursday, January 26th, 2012

More Good Words from Fr. Richard Rohr

  Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. From Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps, p. 103.

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Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

A Test for Clergy (and all Christian Leaders)

“The effectiveness of the clergy is certified by the spiritual condition of the sheep.” Commentary on 1 Corinthians 9:2 (Orthodox Study Bible) Do you agree or disagree with this statement?

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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

Evangelism: blessing or curse?

 I found myself wondering today if the Protestant emphasis on evangelism has ultimately led to more work’s righteousness, a group of exhausted “do-ers” who don’t know how to “be,” and a blackening of the eye of the Gospel because those being evangelized feel more like they are someone else’s project instead of a friend. What [...]

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Monday, January 23rd, 2012

Rotating Quotes

I am back into major work on the book as the revisions came back from our great editor. That means I am putting most of my writing energies into the manuscript and not here on the web site. I hope you can enjoy the rotating quotes on my page. They change every 20 seconds so [...]

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