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After a message I heard this past week from James 3:1-12 about taming the tongue, I have been pondering the first verse of that text: Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly. (James 3:1) This is one of those verses that sent …
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Earlier this week, I began a series of two posts on my sabbatical this past September 1-December. That first post was framed around a fairly basic question: "What did I do on my sabbatical?" This second post is a bit more challenging to write as I probe the question, "How was my sabbatical?" There are …
people speak while light reflects voices mesh, merge, and rebound in, around, and into my ears cars surge back and forth going somewhere fast to nowhere in particular place in relation to place finds its significance only in relationship of place to place location dismembered from relative locality loses identity it is all relationally locative …
I subscribe to a magazine called Collide that looks at the impact of new media and technology on ministry and the church. As someone who works with ministry to adults in the church and also with various aspects of Sunday worship, I have found the magazine and web-site to be useful in a variety of …
Matthew Erickson 