Posted in Life Together on November 18, 2007 | No Comments »
I was reading an article in Down East magazine about an artist in Maine who paints the same subject over and over. His name is Tom Curry and he lives in the mid-coast Maine town of Brooklin. The subject that he continually paints is a small island about a mile from [...]
Posted in Abundance, Life Together, People on November 9, 2007 | No Comments »
Stone soup, I think we’ve all heard the story, right? It tells the story of the weary traveler or the hungry soldiers who ask for a bit of food from a village that is convinced it is impoverished and have nothing to offer. So with a little exaggeration and a lot of encouragement, the villagers are [...]
Posted in Abundance, Life Together on November 2, 2007 | 2 Comments »
October 13th was our Fall Fest and we had a wonderful afternoon here at church enjoying the crisp fall weather, roasting hot dogs and s’mores, listening to gifted musicians and sharing food and conversations. In short, it was a feast! Folks from near and far joined together to share in fun and fellowship.
For me, one [...]
Posted in Life Together on November 2, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I was recently looking at the website for the Spirit and Place Festival that will be taking place November 2 – 18 here in Indianapolis. Broadway is hosting an event on November 10th called Hidden in Plain Sight and I was curious to learn a little more about what other events were being offered around [...]
Posted in Life Together on July 21, 2007 | No Comments »
Rachel and I spent a few days this past week in Michigan at a retreat put on by the Center for Courage & Renewal. The workshop was held at the Fetzer Institue near Kalamazoo – an amazing place of beauty and solace formed by the vision of a man who felt called to create a place that would nurture spiritual wholeness, John Fetzer. [...]
Posted in Abundance, Life Together, People on May 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
…name them one by one.” Does anyone remember singing that old hymn? I do. I couldn’t find it in the new red United Methodist Hymnal, nor was it in the old purple one, so it might not have been a standard around UMC circles, but it was certainly sung pretty often in the churches that I attended growing [...]
Posted in Life Together on April 3, 2007 | 4 Comments »
One of the things that we try very hard to do around here (Broadway) is to recognize and celebrate the gifts that folks bring to our fellowship. We are surrounded by so many gifts — after all, we all have them! And it is wonderful when we can call attention to the talents we see in [...]
Posted in Life Together, People on March 30, 2007 | No Comments »
A couple of weeks ago I shared my take on our group’s experience participating in a Flourising Congregations workshop put on by the Indianapolis Center for Congregations. Yesterday’s mail brought a letter from the Center thanking the participants for taking part and contributing to the event. It also encouraged us to check out their website [...]
Posted in Life Together on March 20, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Duane has graciously opened this blog to many authors — I hope this, my first posting here, serves the purpose of what New Connections, New Directions is about.
Over on my own blog, I’ve posted a rather lengthy reflection on an online assessment I did recently to get an analysis of my social/professional network. After about [...]
Posted in Life Together on March 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’m trying to reconcile two things I read recently:
One is a point of view on the ever increasing evidence that being gay is biologically based from Al Mohler, the president of Southern Seminary (Southern Baptist):
If a biological basis is found, and if a prenatal test is then developed, and if a successful treatment to reverse [...]
