Archive for March, 2005
Thursday, March 31st, 2005
By Community, I mean the commonwealth and common interests, commonly understood, of people living together in a place and wishing to continuing to do so. To put it another way, community is a locally understood interdependence of local people, local culture, local economy, and local nature…A community identifies itself by an understood mutuality of interests. [...]
Wednesday, March 30th, 2005
-Associated Press, March 29, 2005.
The Colorado Supreme Court…threw out the death penalty in a rape-and-murder case because jurors had studied Bible verses such as “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” during deliberations…During oral arguments before the Supreme Court last month, defense attorney Kathleen Lord said the jurors had gone outside the [...]
Friday, March 25th, 2005
KATU 2 - Portland, Oregon
We met our returning soldier here in Portland on March 25th, an answer to frequent prayer over the past year. Earlier we spent a couple of hours with him up at Fort Lewis. Today he comes home for two days before he returns for four more days of duty, then the [...]
Thursday, March 24th, 2005
I just ordered a recent new book by Jim Wallis–haven’t got it yet–called God’s Politics : Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It. Sounds intriguing.
Here’s another quote I like from
The Sacred Romance, by Brent Curtis & John Eldredge
(Thomas Nelson, 1997) pg. 207-208
We were meant to remember together, in community. [...]
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005
(The third of three parts. Continued from March 22&23)
By counterculture I'm not advocating adversarial expressions of faith. The term "counter" needn't require revolution. I agree with Jim Peterson, "Change by revolution is almost always more destructive than constructive. It is a revolt against the prevailing system." (Church Without Walls. Navpress, 1992. p. 215). I'm not [...]
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005
(Second of three parts. Continued thoughts from March 21, 2005)
The community that Jesus had presented to his followers was simple:
* You are not of this world. Don’t try to live like you are.
* Love each other. That is the mark of a disciple.
* You are not part of a hierarchy. Serve, do not dominate [...]
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005
David & Iraqi Child
Today, our friends, David’s parents, are in Washington, D.C. to participate in the memorial to fallen soldiers of the Iraq war called, “Faces of the Fallen.” The photo above is one such face of the war. David said he hadn’t been so tired in a long time having spent a couple [...]
Friday, March 18th, 2005
The Soldier Comes Home
“Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.” ~Amelia Earhart
And so ends 2004.
I know, 2004 ended three months ago, but for us the challenges of that year could not be ended until our son, Caleb returned from Iraq.
There were three families that stuck together during this trying time. We prayed [...]
Friday, March 18th, 2005
Jon, Caleb, and David
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