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You might be an expat living in Xining if…* You woke at 7 a.m. on a Saturday to the sounds of loud firecrackers outside your window. The local Coffee Bar you visited recently doesn’t actually serve any coffee. At least half your small talk is focused around what type of visa you (or your friends)…
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This is the last installment of the "nouwen on leadership & hope" posts. I have found it helpful to think through these paragraphs in daily chunks. I hope you have benefited from it as well. The only thing I want to point out today was that Christ was putting a LOT of hope in Hope. …
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"Every attempt to attach this hope to visible symptoms in our surroundings becomes a temptation when it prevents us from the realization that promises, not concrete successes, are the basis of Christian leadership. Many ministers, priests and Christian laymen have become disillusioned, bitter and even hostile when years of hard work bear no fruit, when…
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"Without this hope [of the promise] we will never be able to see value and meaning in the encounter with a decaying human being and become personally concerned. This hope stretches far beyond the limitations of one’s own psychological strength, for it is anchored not just in the soul of the individual but in God’s…
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From The Wounded Healer we are seeking to answer the question, "What is a Christian leader?": A Christian leader is a [hu]man of hope whose strength in the final analysis is based neither on self-confidence derived from his personality, nor on specific expectations for the future, but on a promise given to him. This promise…
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To these special ones and to all the other great "moms" I have known…I salute you! Your impact on the world in incalculable. Your love makes the world spin! Thanks for mothering us all…
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What does good leadership look like? I think we have all experienced or heard tales of poor leadership in our time. As I’ve lately been pondering the problem of evil/suffering in the world and the daunting reality of death, I really want to be grappling with these issues from a healthy Christian perspective. I want…
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More often than not I think we often learn more from our children than we actually teach them. Oh sure, during their formative years we teach them to eat (the green vegetables at least); we potty train them (some quicker than others…ugh); and we help them navigate through the oft-treacherous and confusing fjords* of life;…
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After reading my recent RANT post, my friend J-Lo pointed me to an awesome Sesame Street video. (I guess some of my sentiments reminded him of the Goat.) I had to share this hilarious video with the rest of you. Here’s the link on YouTube. It’s about getting really M-A-A-A-A-D!!!
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In honor of Celebrate the Banjo Week (note: I don’t think there is such a thing, but the Chinese don’t know this. Shhh, don’t tell ’em,) I am listening to mostly Iron and Wine, Sufjan Stevens, and Travis (ok, not a lot of banjo in Travis, but there is this one song…) this week. (Oh…
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