i don’t know if i’ve mentioned it lately (okay, so, it’s been a year since i’ve mentioned anything at all on this blog), but my job has expanded into the communications world at church. i’m digging it, loving the people i get to work with, enjoying the creativity of the work. it affords me an [...]
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to what end?
Posted in church, god, job on September 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
stunned.
Posted in church, politics on September 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
i just received my weekly e-mail from sojourners, and am appalled to read the news shared by eugene cho:
This is hard to read. Hard to swallow. Hard to understand … especially when it happens at a Christian university such as George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon (20 miles southwest of Portland). From numerous respected accounts, I have [...]
daydreaming again.
Posted in church, friends, tagged dreams on August 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been daydreaming again. In the middle of a conversation on planning an evening of prayer for our church, I followed a bunny trail out to my dream place.
I was standing on a beautiful hardwood floor, sunlight pouring in from the rays of the sun just beginning to nestle into the trees for an [...]
acting.
Posted in church, friends, god, tagged church, emotion, friends, god, meetings on June 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
in elementary school, my teachers noted that i had good stage presence. i agreed. i was comfortable in front of an audience and considered myself a promising actress. in third grade, i had the role of the magic lamp in the aptly titled musical, “the magic lamp.” but while i had the biggest role, i [...]
supera
Posted in church, people on June 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
one of the challenges that presents itself when you’re working at a church is that it’s really difficult to let your flaws be seen by other people. regular old office people expect that you’re flawed and embrace it — which i’m not necessarily saying is good, but it’s sometimes much easier.
for example, at my old job, i [...]
dreaming & ideas
Posted in books, church, god, tagged dreams on April 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
i love ideas. i’m not sure if i ever loved ideas before, but i really love them now. i married a man who’s as giddy as a schoolboy when we talk about ideas; he holds on to them like kite strings, enjoying them when they catch a breeze and fly higher, and then reeling them in [...]
vocational welcome.
Posted in books, church, tagged dreams, emergent church, hospitality, welcome on April 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
i have a shelf of books in my office that all deal with the same subject. i’m sure that i could quite easily sum up all that these writers had to say in a brief, 5-page essay. but then, of course, the clever cover illustrators wouldn’t have made a dime, and the authors would have [...]
great blog.
Posted in church, tagged blogs on April 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
i found this today. i really like her, whoever she is.
city block dreaming
Posted in church, tagged church, dreams on April 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
a few months ago, my husband and i were taking a walk before dinner at the avenue bar on the city’s eastside. we strolled past the recently closed fyfe’s corner bistro, peeking inside the windows to catch a glimpse of the restaurant we’d heard so much about but would never get to enjoy. and that’s [...]
mega-church: the game.
Posted in church, tagged church, fun on March 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
i know it’s been out for awhile, but it’s only just caught my eye now.
imagine if you could create the church you wanted, any way you wanted. wow! think of all the possibilties:
hire and fire staff
deal with idiots, naive volunteers, and denominational egos
earn points with god by winning souls for christ.
write a mission statement
choose a [...]
