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Welcome to the New Online Home for Clay Pot Chronicles

My blog that was formerly found at waynebcox.com has now migrated here to its new location. Welcome! For all former readers, welcome back! Please take a minute to subscribe — your former subscription will no longer be active. If you used to receive updates via email, click here. If you subscribed in an RSS reader, [...]

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Migrating This Blog

Hey everyone – I’m grateful you’re reading this and that you’ve ever read anything from me here! In the next week or so, I’ll be moving all the posts and content from this site to a new location: claypotchronicles.com. That makes sense, huh?! Since I began blogging almost two years ago, I’ve always used the [...]

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January Month-In-Review: Missional Pastor Edges President Obama for Top Spot

The most popular posts on Clay Pot Chronicles for the month of January were about a James Cameron film, the president’s speech on Just War Theory, and the “problem of evil.”  Avatar, Obama, and Haiti.  Three hot topics, to be sure. Here are the results: First place by one pageview:  Jamie Arpin-Ricci’s Review of Avatar [...]

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White Water Rafting on the Ocoee River

We’re setting out on a weekend trip to Tennessee!  A short break and some needed time with my wife. We went with a group of friends in the Spring to raft on the Ocoee River.  It was a great time – we did the “middle” Ocoee with class ’3′ and ’4′ rapids – not bad [...]

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Social Media: Participating, Lurking, Yawning, Condemning?

I’ve been noticing my friends’ reaction to social media.  Seems to form a continuum, going from regular involvement on one end to disdainful rejection on the other end!  Where do you fit? Participator Actively engages on more than one social media platform.  Uses social networking to functionally communicate with friends and meet new people.  Doesn’t [...]

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The Semi-Intentional Blogging Break

I’m back after a blogging hiatus – a semi-intentional(!) absence through the Lent season. Let me explain. One of the things I learned from Lent this year was the value of time. I went into Lent with the intention of giving up something that would be “dramatic,” difficult, and sacrificial (it turned out this brought [...]

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Beginning of the Blog

“If you only look at us, you might well miss the brightness. We carry this precious Message around in the unadorned clay pots of our ordinary lives. That’s to prevent anyone from confusing God’s incomparable power with us.”  2 Corinthians 4:7 (The Message, Eugene Peterson). Perhaps it’s the excitement of a ‘new year’ and all [...]

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