I love the poetry of Mary Oliver. Last night, my friend Andy sent me an e-mail with a poem of hers that I like but hadn’t seen in a long time. The poem is Wild Geese and I share it with you since if you are not familiar with Oliver’s poetry you should be.
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Wild Geese
A lot of comments are made about preaching to the younger generation. Lots can be said about the newest set of adults in our culture, and it is imperative that we get to know who we are trying to reach, or who we are preaching to on a Sunday . . . But let’s not fall into the trap of thinking that the new generation are simply looking for new style. It is so easy to think that preaching in a certain style will appeal to the younger generation. It is true that generationally there is a shift in preferred styles of preaching, but the danger comes when we presume that style is the key, then lose sight of substance.
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Struggling With Style and Substance
Father John Fiala, accused of molesting a teen, was removed from his order’s ministry at the same time he was removed from his Rocksprings church. Blog : Pray Tell | Faith In SA
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Priest suspended in 2008 for ‘impropriety’
Thousands of women flaunted their cleavage Monday in protest after an Iranian cleric suggested that women who do not dress modestly cause earthquakes.
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Women strut their stuff for Boobquake
Russell Blackford is for it ; Jerry Coyne is against it ; Amanda Marcotte splits the difference . I speak, of course, of today’s baring of chest flesh intended to mock the Iranian cleric who blamed women’s sexuality for earthquakes: The prayer leader, Hojatoleslam Kazim Sadeghi, says women and girls who “don’t dress appropriately” spread “promiscuity in society.” “When promiscuity spreads, earthquakes increase,” he says in a video posted Monday on YouTube, apparently of him leading Friday prayers in Tehran, Iran, last week. “There is no way other than taking refuge in religion and adapting ourselves to Islamic behavior,” he adds in the video
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Of Boobs and Quakes
Am I the only fop that hasn’t seen this about a once-famous girl idol gone swiftly into a realm where no Episcopalian has ever gone before? Meet Barbie – only she found Jesus… or perhaps raided Madonna’s reject collection. Check out the threads
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Clerical Error: Dude looks like a Barbie
Yesterday, the Fourth Sunday of Easter, was Good Shepherd Sunday. And yesterday, today and tomorrow, our Gospels come from the 10th chapter of John’s Gospel, where Jesus speaks of himself as the Good Shepherd. We listen to this chapter of John on the Good Shepherd after last week listening to the Bread of Life Discourse in Chapter 6 of John
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The Good Shepherd
At the BibleFresh conference on preaching – here’s the online magazine – we discussed various aspects of preaching and how it can be refreshed in the UK. Over the next few days I’ll share a few of the thoughts coming out of that event. Traditionally the sermon was considered by some to be the full extent of ministry, or at least the primary avenue of ministry. Today preachers are realizing more and more that the sermon is part of a larger package of ministry. So this makes me think of several ministry partners for the sermon: 1.
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Non Solo Sermon Ministry
Paul Harvey I’m so there! Glenn Beck, Dr. Paige Patterson to address Class of 2010 (at Liberty University) Well-known radio host Glenn Beck will address Liberty University’s Class of 2010 at Commencement on Saturday, May 15, Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr.
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Glenn Beck, Paige Patterson to Address Class of 2010
VANCOUVER — It’s been a tumultuous and perhaps trying week for Vancouver Liberal MP Ujjal Dosanjh, who saw his life threatened twice. “As long as I stand for what I stand for, I will be a target,” Dosanjh told the Vancouver Province Friday after RCMP launched an investigation into a posting on a Facebook page calling for the former premier to be shot.
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Dosanjh vows not to let threats change his resolve