Who is the author?
My name is Laura and these are the wonderings of a theologically trained ponderer (me), writing out-loud, while exegeting her way through Ephesians and working to help form her small corner of the New Humanity in Christ.
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Being Church: Connection, Participation, and Process
Consider: When do you see the body, building, and bride images in your local congregation? Church as Body Church as Building Church as Bride As church, are we a gathering…
Who are we?
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Being Church: Connection, Participation, and Process
Consider: When do you see the body, building, and bride images in your local congregation? Church as Body Church as Building Church as Bride As church, are we a gathering…
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Dancing in the overlapping neighborhoods
What would happen if we intentionally connected our overlapping communities? I don’t mean getting all of the folks at work or school to start attending your church or all the…
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What happens when we run our bodies against their design?
What does our creational design tell us about God? Designed capacity and beauty Our bodies are designed for optimal functioning within a range of diet and activity, yet we have…
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Be honest, not good?
Is working hard to be good counter productive? Does working hard to be good actually train our souls to be good or merely to do good? Is it okay to…
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How I personalized my StrengthsFinder results
A few weeks ago, I took the Clifton StrengthsFinder test for a doctoral course. Though my skepticism was stimulated during the test, the results amazed. As part of the course…
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Becoming human: Face to face with God?
Thesis: We become more fully human by seeing our reflection in the face of God in the face of the other. Where do we see the face of God? The…
In the world
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Reading is so much more than lapping up goodness
Writing is thinking: I’ve hear it often and I agree, but what about reading? To ‘fess up a bit, I’ve too often and for too long treated reading as mere…
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Help wanted: Only ex-procrastinators need apply
You would think someone with “strategic” as a strength theme would figure out how to avoid an all-nighter. Well, think again. The night before my last class of the term,…
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This together-alone condition
Nearly every Saturday, he sits on the planter wall, a few yards from his “home” set up behind some shrubs. Every Saturday, I am torn by two compulsions: connection and…
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Ordinary art: Beauty for the journeyer
Week days, I commute. On the bus, rain in my ears, book in one hand and a pen in the other, my world is a sonic traveling office, interrupted only…
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Waiting in the dark
For most of the year, my work days begin pre-dawn, waiting. After a usually well-timed and quick morning routine, I am off too the bus stop. The duration of my…
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Learning to see: Lessons in blue and green
For a few days a couple weeks ago, I saw blue and green everywhere. And nearly every time I saw it, I took a picture. I realize this may seem…
