Christianity

Interesting post on connexions by Mike: Gods great game.  Go read the whole thing in context, I picked these paragraphs out because they made me stop and think what I believe. Maybe I'm looking at the issue on too large a canvas; surely I have to believe that

Re-reading Henri Nouwen's "The Genesee Diary" I got to the part about how work can be done in a contemplative spirit: If I have learned anything this week, it is that there is a contemplative way of working that is more important for me than praying,

The first homework I have in months and I'm doing it at lunchtime on the day it's due!  This is for the VLI-AD mentoring for this semester.  So it's not just two people trying to counsel each other week after week, other people got

Scheduling a regular quiet time is a headache.  Sticking to the schedule is hard.  How do you dig out a half hour of time when there's laundry to do, cats to feed, litter boxes to muck out, a house to keep clean, and a life to keep organised?

A friend asked me about infant baptism last night.  I'm of the opinion that baptism is something a person should choose for themselves, but if it was done to you as an infant, no harm there.  I don't think it precludes you from choosing to get

Henri Nouwen in "Creative Ministry" says there are five different areas of ministry.  There is some overlap with Richard Foster's disciplines: Areas of ministry: teaching, preaching, counseling, organizing, and celebrating. I think you teach the believers and preach to everyone else, but "preach" has