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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who are we? Archive
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Being Church: Connection, Participation, and Process
Posted on 2011/11/07 | No CommentsConsider: 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... -
Dancing in the overlapping neighborhoods
Posted on 2011/04/25 | No CommentsWhat 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... -
What happens when we run our bodies against their design?
Posted on 2011/03/15 | No CommentsWhat 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... -
Be honest, not good?
Posted on 2010/12/27 | No CommentsIs 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... -
How I personalized my StrengthsFinder results
Posted on 2010/11/30 | 4 CommentsA 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... -
Becoming human: Face to face with God?
Posted on 2010/11/23 | No CommentsThesis: 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... -
What is Learning?
Posted on 2010/11/16 | No CommentsLearning is a self-adjusting, continuous process of inputs, processing, and response. Each movement in the process takes place across one or more knowledge categories. Four such categories are cognitive, somatic,... -
We are not a mere gathering of individuals
Posted on 2010/11/09 | No CommentsOver the centuries, theologians have labeled many human traits as evidence of “the image of God.” The image has been seen in humanity’s upright stature, use of language, creativity, and... -
When I say “church,” what do I intend?
Posted on 2010/09/28 | 2 CommentsAbout this time last year, I asked, “When you say ‘church,’ what do you mean?“ I return to the question for a deeper look. Church or Church or Church or... -
Sometimes our leaking emotions make no logical sense
Posted on 2010/09/14 | No CommentsI am afraid of bugs — especially beetles. I realize that, for the most part, this is illogical, for beetles do not generally bite or sting. In fact, even cute,...
