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slick prayers

Posted September 29, 2009 @ 7:07am | by Tripp

I would simply like to share with you this one thing this morning: Prayer is slippery, slick, and generally elusive. That is all. Enjoy your day. Now, where did I put that breviary?

 

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monday videopost: groceries

Posted September 28, 2009 @ 12:32pm | by Tripp

 

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happy anniversary, spouse

Posted September 25, 2009 @ 7:21am | by Tripp

Today is our fifth wedding anniversary. There are several other places I could be right now. Work calls. Other obligations call. God only knows where I would be without her. In that sense, too, I...

 

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sounding familiar, part 2

Posted September 24, 2009 @ 10:34am | by Tripp

Emergence is already in the institutions. It’s not inevitable. It’s there. How do I know? I am standing in the pulpit of a mainline church in an affluent suburb of a major urban...

 

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sounding familiar, part 1

Posted September 24, 2009 @ 6:42am | by Tripp

Larry and Rich both left comments in a previous post about the Mission and Ministry in the Great Emergence Conference that could be summarized as "Haven't we heard all of this before?" The answer is...

 

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liturgy is about the soul and not processions

Posted September 23, 2009 @ 8:21am | by Tripp

On liturgy: If roteness is a danger, it is also the way liturgy works. When you don’t have to think all the time about what words you are going to say next, you are free to fully enter into...

 

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