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Today is the first Weekend Wisdom of Advent. As we anticipate the birth of Jesus, the retail outlets are anticipating a season of high sales and good cheer. Instead of regurgitating the same old cud about the commercialization of Christmas, listen to this perspective from Rice’s Spiritual Memoirs, Called Out of Darkness: When people rail [...]
George MacDonald is one of my all-time favourite authors. I became hooked on him when I realized the esteem C. S. Lewis held for him. I read Lilith and Phantastes a number of times, not quite comprehending the depths of them yet feeling strangely moved. Next, I read a biography and plowed through his three [...]
Great Emergence, The: How Christianity Is Changing and Why (emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith) © 2008 Baker Books 172 pages History will decide whether Tickle is a prophet or not. Here’s her idea: Every 500 years the church undergoes major change. During that period of change, a new form of Christianity is [...]
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