I just can’t seem to make the time for writing out a real, coherent blog post. But sometimes it’s my perfectionism that paralyzes, so I’m making myself write something of what I’ve been thinking about. I pity you readers…but remember, I started this blog for ME, as a writing discipline. <end selfish rant>
I wrote a [...]

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Here’s what I shared Sunday…
I’ve been fighting illness, but seem to be on the winning end. Hopefully more posts are forthcoming this week. Been processing a lot.

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We had to move my blog to a new server, and I configured some things the wrong way. Up and going now.

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One part of my earlier post about my headspace will become clearer if you read what I shared today in our worship. Joel 2: 12-17 was our focus as we will begin together a focus on Lent to prepare for Easter. You can journey with us on this blog/website, beginning this coming Wednesday.
What you won’t [...]

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I’ve been thinking about masculinity and femininity lately, how they relate and don’t relate to personhood, how they relate and don’t relate to sexuality, and wondering why in Christian circles there seems to be a sharp upswing in the need to prescribe and define more strict gender roles than I am comfortable with.
I’m wondering how [...]

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Our Yearly Meeting is encouraging all of us to take today as a Peace Sabbath Day. They’ve prepared some queries to consider, as well as inviting us to take time away from something else, make some sacrifice, in order to offer some time to pray about how God wants us to bring peace to the [...]

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Happy birthday love!

Originally uploaded by gkoskela.

Happy birthday, love!

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We got home safely, have hugged the kids, got them in bed, more or less prepared for tomorrow, and now it’s time for bed. I have a full day tomorrow, so not sure if I’ll have time to blog. But the evening session was personally very, very meaningful last night. Not sure if I’ll blog [...]

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Eugene Peterson, in contradiction to my last post, is one of the best speakers you could find anywhere.
He framed his speaking in the general session today around this question: What are pastors good for? He shared his early romantic and militaristic views of that. He absolutely destroyed the way business thinking, marketing, and consumerism have [...]

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Did you realize that just because somebody puts on a pastor’s conference, it doesn’t mean they go out and get the best seminar leaders on a given topic? That it might have something to do with the book they are trying to sell? That when Zondervan puts on a conference, there are a whole lot [...]

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