Well Rambling fans, it’s packing time here at the iMonastery. I am taking flight tomorrow for a week in England. In addition to looking for the best pub food available, I will be speaking at The Turning, a “prayer camp” in Suffolk. If you are going to be near England next week (that would beContinue reading “Saturday Ramblings 8.14.10”
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“Wish Dream” Community
By Chaplain Mike The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old but a life of uncompromising discipleship, following Christ according to the Sermon on the Mount. I believe the time has come to gather people together and do this. – DietrichContinue reading ““Wish Dream” Community”
iMonk Classic: What Have I Learned from Living in Community?
Classic iMonk Post by Michael Spencer Originally posted March 1, 2009 When you’ve lived in an intentional Christian community for almost 17 years, you’re a pretty sorry excuse for a person if you haven’t thought about how your life has affected that community or how that experience has shaped you as a person. You liveContinue reading “iMonk Classic: What Have I Learned from Living in Community?”
The Sad State of Pastoral Thinking
By Chaplain Mike Every time I think I see a ray of hope in the evangelical church, I come across some pablum that reminds me how many asylums across the land have been taken over by the inmates. Take this recent example of pastoral “insight” from Perry Noble, published in the Christian Post. Please. TheContinue reading “The Sad State of Pastoral Thinking”
Difficult Scriptures: Luke 18: 1-8
1 One day Jesus told his disciples a story to show that they should always pray and never give up. 2 “There was a judge in a certain city,†he said, “who neither feared God nor cared about people. 3 A widow of that city came to him repeatedly, saying, ‘Give me justice in thisContinue reading “Difficult Scriptures: Luke 18: 1-8”
Death Of An Autonomist
Then Jesus went to work on his disciples. “Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You’re not in the driver’s seat; I am. Don’t run from suffering; embrace it. Follow me and I’ll show you how. Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to findingContinue reading “Death Of An Autonomist”
Extreme Community
By Chaplain Mike “To have all things in common means to love our neighbor, to have with him, to want with him, to suffer with him and to endure the ups and downs with him. “In Heaven (as it should be on earth) there is no ownership and hence there is found contentment, true peace,Continue reading “Extreme Community”
First Thoughts on “Community”
By Chaplain Mike Today, I heard an interesting interview on the NPR program, Fresh Air with Todd S. Purdum, national editor of Vanity Fair, who has written a piece in the latest edition called, “Washington: We Have a Problem” For this article, Purdum spent a day at the White House with the president and hisContinue reading “First Thoughts on “Community””
My Five Favorite Novels
Ok, so I am answering a question you didn’t ask. For some reason I think you want to know this anyway. You have been sitting there thinking, What is Jeff Dunn’s favorite fiction title of all time? What else would he recommend? And if you haven’t been thinking that, now you are. So I amContinue reading “My Five Favorite Novels”
Opinion: Are We “At Our Courageous Best”?
By Chaplain Mike At their courageous best, clergy lead where people aren’t asking to go, because that’s how the range of issues that concern them expands, and how a holy community gets formed. • G. Jeffrey MacDonald How wonderful to open the New York Times Sunday edition this week and find a thoughtful word ofContinue reading “Opinion: Are We “At Our Courageous Best”?”
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