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Missing Resurrection – reprise

April 9, 2013

– by Andy Wade – 4/28/2012 (revision 4/5/2013) God smacked me upside the head with an amazing double rainbow the other day. The colors were so intense in one of the arcs that I could easily distinguish the many bands of color painted across the sky. I had to stop. I had to just stand [...]

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Let the Pie Work

March 9, 2013

– by Andy Wade – “My grandaddy always said, if you got a problem you can’t solve, it helps to get it out of your head.Pie. It’s good.” Following that advice I would gain a lot of weight! Those words from Men in Black III caught me off guard. But then when I stepped back [...]

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Digging to China

February 27, 2013

– by Cindy Todd – Not sure about you, but I fondly remember hazy days of summers as a child. Mine were spent mostly in Crown Point, Indiana. Ours was the era before back-to-back summer camps and the emphasis on days spent productively. Sure, the lawn had to be mowed, weeded, and trimmed once a [...]

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Restoration Village Arts

February 25, 2013

– by Tracy Howe Wispelwey – After a decade of touring I began to seriously re-imagine my work as a performing songwriter and the director of a small nonprofit that has become the umbrella for international artistic collaboration and faith-based activism. In the last several years my husband, Seth, and I, along with a small [...]

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Infused with the Breath of God

February 22, 2013

– by Andy Wade – Peanuts circa 1954, Pig-Pen enters the comic strip in a cloud of dust. We don’t know his real name… “I haven’t got a name… people just call me things.” As the dust rises around him, Pig-Pen proudly announces he’s surrounded by the dust of ancient civilizations. He is as perceptive [...]

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Activist Contemplation

January 10, 2013

– with Christine Sine – “I discovered… the need for strong anchors that would make it possible for me to continue responding now matter how challenging the circumstances around me were…that is how I came into that balance between activism and contemplation, recognizing that it’s only in the place of deep contemplation that we often [...]

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Living on Purpose with New Disciplines in 2013

January 8, 2013

by Tom Sine — Are you ready to embrace new disciplines to follow Jesus in living on purpose in 2013? Last week I asked: “Do you want to start the New Year by ‘living on purpose?’” I outlined one way you might begin to discern how to connect your life more directly to God’s loving [...]

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Part 2: What is you vision of the good life and better future you are looking forward to?

December 18, 2012

– by Tom Sine – As we race towards Christmas 2012 and a very uncertain new year, what is your vision of the good life and better future you’re giving your life to? Is the good life of God really simply about getting “a piece of the rock” now and disembodied existence in the clouds [...]

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Social Media and the Limits of Imagination

November 22, 2012

– by Andy Wade – This brilliant piece by The Onion pokes fun at social media marketing but also challenges new assumptions being formed by our unbridled embrace of social media and marketing. Is one of the effects of this new “model” a dumbing down of our imagination? “Using your brains to think of a [...]

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Power to the People!

November 21, 2012

by Steve Kimes – While Linda was on the street, she was always called “Mom,” especially by the young street kids. She was a grandmother who adores little ones, but don’t get in her way. She’ll tell you what she thinks of you without hesitation, and she’ll keep all the young ones in line. The [...]

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