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Miracles: The Foreplay of Spirit and Intention

I occasionally catch the daily inspirational snippet over at Emergent Village. This one has been pricking my imagination all day. It’s from Wendy MacLean, a minister in Montreal: I am the woman who made her son’s lunch and said: “Be sure to share if you see someone in need.” He knew his brothers and sisters [...]

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Capturing the Moment

I went to New York city last week with my wife.  I took a lot of pictures.  We spent an entire, wonderful day (the typical 65 degree, sunny February day in the city!) walking and seeing all that we could see.  We crossed through neighborhoods watching New Yorkers go through their typical day — mothers [...]

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Slowing the Pace with this Advent Devotional Idea

The season of Advent began yesterday and so Christians have entered into the traditional season of expectation and waiting for the coming of Jesus!  It will be for many “the most wonderful time of the year;” however, as you know, it can be a season that brings great anxiety, pressure, and even depression. Last year, [...]

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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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Deep Hope

Without the empty tomb, resurrection theology reduces to a generalized capacity for goodness somehow to outlast and overcome evil. Such a resurrection hope is only as powerful as the latest experience one may have had with goodness hanging on against such evil. In the grand sweep of human history, there is too much evidence to [...]

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Become Yourself

Thomas Merton was speaking to a group of his novices: “There is only one thing for anybody to become in life. There’s no point in becoming spiritual – the whole thing is a waste of time.  What you came here for is to become yourself, to discover your complete identity to be you.  But the [...]

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Incarnation: The Intersection of Spiritual and Physical

If the Word of God became flesh and dwelt among us, that is, if the Word of God came out of the birth canal of a woman’s body, grew, ate, went to the bathroom, sometimes bathed, struggled against demons, sweated, wept, exulted, transfigured, was physically violated and rotted away in a tomb just before being [...]

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Thomas Merton on Seeing the Core of Our Reality

I have the immense joy of being a member of a race in which God became incarnate. As if the sorrows and stupidities of the human condition could overwhelm me, now I realize what we all are….There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun. It was [...]

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