I’ve been meaning to comment on this for a while since we started our home delivery subscription to The New York Times at the beginning of the month. In reading the paper in its original ink and newsprint version, I’ve come across articles and read that I never would have with the on-line version. The [...]
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Okay, okay. I’ll get rid of some books, Martha
This by David Dalla Venezia. One of his pictures is used as the cover for Ray Pawson book, Evidence-based Policy: A Realist Perspective (London: SAGE, 2006). I picked it up today to reread some passages. Pawson included some links to Venezia’s work and I saw this. It captures what others have described and what I’ve [...]
What’s the witness of your “domestic” life?
I’ve been dipping again into the Anabaptist record. A piece by Alan Kreider took me particularly hard. He wrote, “The church has nothing to offer to the world other than what it has learned to live in its own ‘domestic’ life.”
It isn’t information; it isn’t principles; it isn’t laws and regulations that’s going to make [...]
A novel nonviolent approach to disrupting protesters is not without risks
My friend, Boley, called me yesterday amid the teevee pictures and news reports of the haranguing, protesting of Democrats, some of which were threatening and vandalistic. I hadn’t heard from him in a while, but he didn’t spend time at bringing us up to date. He called, he said, for leads to left-leaning reform groups. [...]
Jesus returns home, A remembrance of Ray S. Anderson
I recently Googled “Ray S. Anderson.” His name was on a thick paper on the church that was part of a seminar he taught at Fuller. I had found the paper during our massive paper throw-way. We filled completely one of those green recycling contains supplied by the city, by the way.
I found that Anderson [...]