I hope this list ends up being comprehensive but I’m really just looking at my book shelf and trying to remember what I read, if for work or pleasure. Of this list I know there are some books i read in full for different courses in the past year that aren’t here because they were…
Read MoreHappy New Year!! Hello 2009
A year has come and gone. Of my years of late this one has been rather uneventful. Aside from started up Nineteen05 back in January and starting Seminary in the spring we have just been chugging along. No major trips (only a handful of weddings), and nothing overly dramatic took place. Don’t believe that I…
Read MorePhoto from Friday
Last Friday we went out to the Holidazzel Parade and it was really cold, well into the negative digits and on our walk back to the North Loop we past this garage that was full. Thought it was a nice image and captures the attitude that us Minnesotans take during the winter. No frigid weather…
Read MoreMen and Women of Today
I mentioned a quote from a book by Henri Nouwen in November (here) and since finishing that book have really connected and identified with Nouwen as an author and a man of God. In much the same way as I have connected with Andrew Murray (19th Century author) who I have read a number of…
Read MoreChurch Exposing Members Sin Publicly… really?
I just posted about an hour ago about the passing of the second founder of the Moral Majority (which later evolved into the Evangelical Right). Now i was catching up on feeds for the day and came across this. Rebecca Hancock told FOXNews.com that Grace Community Church, a non-denominational church in Jacksonville, Fla., was against…
Read MoreEnd of an era, begining of a new one?
Yesterday evening I came across in one of my feeds this article about the passing of Paul Weyrich. His name didn’t initially strike me but the movement that he helped create (along with the late Jarry Falwell) has influenced and, in my opinion, abused the church in America for the last 3 decades. Those two…
Read MoreSt. Croix Panorama
This panoramic shot was take about a month ago and is a stitching together of 17 images in Photoshop to span from looking north east to south. Original image is 15736×3477 pixels. (Posting on flickr)
Read MoreSun Setting on the American Century… Really?
According to a new government report, America is doomed…. The next two decades will see a world living with the daily threat of nuclear war, environmental catastrophe and the decline of America as the dominant global power, according to a frighteningly bleak assessment by the US intelligence community. “The world of the near future will…
Read MoreCharacteristics of a Leader
Watching a video of Edwin H. Friedman during a course he raised several characteristics a self-differentiated leader should have. Vision Stamina (ability to withstand mutiny) Persistence Self-Regulation in the face of sabotage This leader would be one devoted to a vision and cause above and beyond the people involved with that cause. He goes on…
Read MoreThere is no compassion without many tears
In preparing a short essay for class based on the final section of the Nouwen book quoted below I came across this: It might sound strange to consider grief a way to compassion. But it is. Grief asks me to allow the sins of the world-my own included-to pierce my heart and make me shed…
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