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Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Not Orthodox

@Duck and Decanter
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I posted a new thread on the message board I mentioned last week. The post is in the welcome section. As a non-Christian I can’t post just anywhere but the welcome section is OK. Here is a copy of the post.
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Iwojimakid
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Are you a Christian?: No, I am not a Christian.
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: […]

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Bad News

@Duck and Decanter
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I ran into a message board while looking for information about Ronald Weinland this past week. I decided to register because I thought it might be interesting. To register for the forum an applicant must pick one of three categories:
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I. Yes, I am a Christian.
II. […]

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Committment and Tolerance Go Hand-in-Hand

A slideshow of photos from St. Peter’s recent house-building mission trip to Tijuana is available here. (Images from days 1 and 2 will be up later this week; I exhausted our free bandwidth at Flickr!)
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Survey Shows US Religious Tolerance from NYTimes.com
Although a majority of Americans say religion is very important to them, nearly three-quarters of […]

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

Book Learning

@Fair Trade Café & Duck and Decanter
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I learned four new things this past week.
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1. The first thing I learned was that in the last two years I have used more energy in the form of electricity in January than I have in any other month. That surprised me (what with global warming […]

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Who Are We?

@Fair Trade Café
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Last Sunday, May 4 2008 I went to the “A TASTE OF GREECE” festival put on by St. Katherine Greek Orthodox Church. St Katherine uses the festival as a fund raiser. It had been several years since I had been to the festival and I noticed more than a few changes. To start […]

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

February Statement of Faith

I’ve written several statements of faith during my life. The first was probably a part of my confirmirmation experience. There’s at least one in my journal of signs. There’s even one on this blog.
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Several weeks ago, I wrote another. Some friends I’ve been meeting with had written one for themselves, and I was moved to […]

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

Patronize

From Denver

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It was cold in Denver on Thursday (Febuary14). It had snowed in the early hours of the morning and a few flakes were still falling as I walked along Park Avenue West not far from the Rockies’ Coors Field. My unprotected ears tingled. I noticed the cross first. Then the signs. The signs were […]

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

The Phoenix Journal - Weekly Online Radio Program Promoting the Phoenix Affirmations!

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Meet Landon Whitsett, a Presbyterian minister, musician and artist from Kansas City.�
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Like many of us, Landon has been rankled over the amount of fundamentalist programming on the Christian radio scene versus anything that might be labeled progressive Christian (Last I heard, fundamentalists and conservative evangelicals owned 1,500 of the nation’s 10,000 radio stations!).  Unlike many of us, […]

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Preparation for Passion 1 - Assess Your Carbon Footprint

Yesterday I started leading my congregation through a Lenten Practice I’m calling “Six Steps to Carbon Neutrality” (the six steps come from Clean Air-Cool Planet’s “Consumer’s Guide to Retail Carbon Offset Providers”). For the season of Lent I’ll be blogging our weekly step, its theological justification, and our awareness, action, and advocacy practices.
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I’ve practiced […]

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

Contradictions

@ Home with cats and fire.
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Boots stalking fire
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Last Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I stopped by at my parent’s house. I do this a couple times a week for a few minutes. One of the things mentioned by my mother was that my father never liked the fact that the day was a holiday. […]