Heading out for camping….blog posts left unpublished…wait in anticipation!

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(I sit on a stool in a darkened room, spotlights shining in my eyes.)
Evangeline Orthodox: “Your previous post on being Christ Centered sounds awfully relativistic. Don’t you believe in absolute truth?”
Me: “Yes. Yes I do.”
Ms. Orthodox: “Don’t you believe the bible to be given to us by God, not just written by human authors?”
Me: [...]

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Northwest Yearly Meeting began its annual sessions over the weekend, so at NFC, we had the privilege of hosting many people from around the Pacific Northwest. My leading for what to share changed on Friday, as the book of 1 Peter helped me personally. So yesterday, I shared some of our wonderful history as a [...]

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I’ve read with great interest and awe the many discussions going on in blogland about Convergent Friends, and where Jesus fits in (Thanks to The Good Raised Up, Unwavering Bands of Light, Rooted and Grounded in Love, Embracing Complexity, One Quaker Take, Brooklyn Quaker, and of course Tables, Chairs, and Oaken Chests, What Canst Thou [...]

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I don’t know why Elaine and I do these things. So few dates, so little time, so few movies we ever watch…and we waste them on things like Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. (By the by, Bob’s up and blogging again, and he gave his erudite review here.)
At least we knew it was [...]

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…that I am not a political conservative, if this video defines conservatism. I just felt it was time to admit that publicly.

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Many apologies for the lack of blogging. It hasn’t been for lack of ideas; I was amazingly moved by the visit from Chris M and Robin M, and have loved reading Robin’s accounts of her visit (here, here, and here). I just can’t seem to get my thoughts into words on a screen. So after [...]

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This past weekend, I had the honor of hosting Robin M and Chris M in our home. We’ve developed a virtual friendship over the past year that is now officially a flesh and blood friendship. We’ve eaten together, talked together, worshiped together, and even enjoyed a cool pool on a hot day together.
We are now [...]

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Mississippi 49!

Originally uploaded by gkoskela.

My quest is coming close to the end! Talli and I saw this truck just outside of Klamath Falls yesterday morning, as we “swung by” Diamond Lake on our way home from California for Elaine’s parents’ 50th wedding anniversary. We had [...]

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