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Consortium on the Emerging Church

Posted in The Cultural Life, The Spiritual Life on May 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Rev. Howard Bess discusses the sociological impact of the Emergent Church movment on Cosortiumnews.com.  Rev.  Bess gives a nice summary and introduction for those who might still be new to the Emergent movement. He raises the question of whether the Emergents are truly a subsection of the Evangelical movement or a new entity on the [...]

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A film analogy for pastoral leadership

Posted in The Spiritual Life, tagged , , , , on May 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Next Reformation blog shares an interesting analogy for pastoral leadership from Reg McNeal’s  Missional Renaissance that compares contemporary ministers to film producers whereas in the past ministers were movie directors.
Quotes are pulled from McNeal:
“Hollywood Directors are project managers. The work with all phases and components of filmmaking to produce a movie. … Very little happens [...]

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A Change of Theme and Perspective

Posted in The Personal Life, The Spiritual Life, tagged , , , , , , , on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Since you are reading Sunflower Chalice, you’re noticing the new WordPress theme. It’s called “mondo-zen.” It seems every year in the summer I get the urge to change the theme on this blog.  I left it alone last year, but this year I had to do it.  The blog had gotten too “busy.” I had [...]

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The Dallas Principles

Posted in La Vida Loca, The Cultural Life, The Political Life, The Spiritual Life, Uncategorized, tagged , , on May 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Like a lot of things these days, I learned about it through email even though it happened in my own backyard.  The Dallas Principles were drafted just over a week ago by activists from around the country here in Texas as a manifesto and call to action for GLBT rights without delay.  It’s time to [...]

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Birthday poems

Posted in The Personal Life, The Spiritual Life, tagged , , , , , , , on May 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Every year on my birthday, for the last decade or more now, I read two poems.  They have become anniversary presents to myself.  Prayers of thanksgiving for life.  They are reminders of my past and at the same time a call to stay in the present moment and be grateful for the chance to be [...]

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It's all about branding

Posted in The Political Life, tagged , , , on May 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I was sitting here reading dailyKos, waiting for my family to be done with American Idol, so I could watch the end of the Celtics play-off game, when I noticed something different about the GOP elephant next to the stories about Republicans. It wasn’t an elephant, it was a dinosaur. I’ve been reading [...]

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Sing all the verses

Posted in The Political Life, The Spiritual Life, tagged , , , , , on May 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Bruce Springsteen (who else, America’s theologian laureate) giving his introduction at Pete Seeger’s 90th birthday party recently and noting that while rehearsing for their performance earlier this year at President Obama’s inauguration, Seeger made sure to mention he wanted to sing “all the verses” of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land” including “the two [...]

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National Day of (Interfaith) Prayer

Posted in The Spiritual Life, Uncategorized, tagged , , , on May 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This evening I will participate in the inaugural event of the North East Tarrant Interreligious Association.  We will hold a National Day of Prayer Service on Southlake Town Square in Southlake, TX. Many National Day of Prayer Events are related to the National Day of Prayer Task Force and associated with folks like fundamentalists such [...]

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