two days down in the three days budgeted for the Bonhoeffer paper…

… and not even a paragraph written.   But a REALLY thorough outline is ready so I can draft this tomorrow, right?!  There is only one section of the outline that is poorly organized so that part of the paper will probably be slower going, but I have a feeling I can’t flesh it out [...]

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Second Snapshot- Some Timely Conversations About the Church

Thursday morning, waiting at the bus stop EARLY in the morning, trying to read what I could of an article for my 8 a.m. class- the woman next to me, puffing on a cigarette (the smoke was blowing away from me fortunately) asked “You go to school?  You a student?”   “Yes,” I replied, “I [...]

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figuring out church

When forced to give a research focus I say “Probably ecclesiology [fancy word for the study of the church], particularly the gap between confessional ecclesiology [what we say we believe about the church] and actual, lived church [how the church actually is and long has been]. For example, a chief belief of the church about [...]

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A Good Get-Away

We didn’t see much color in the trees, but we saw some gorgeous skies, two lovely sunsets and stars, oh my… we miss seeing stars like that all the time. It was a good get-away- just right in fact. A day of rest and a day of work. And a productive day of work at [...]

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