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Merry Christmas

So a lot of folks have been doing those Jib Jab vids of Elvin Christmas greetings. So Eve, forever the indie do-it-yourselfer, decided to shoot this YouTube video: So, that says it for us!


Advent and families…

So here we are, the first week of advent.  Last year, with the help of two other families, we started a ritual of reading advent scriptures (passages that announce the coming of God’s dreams) with our kids.  Here’s the kit to getting started, and here’s the blog that tracked our month.  I’ll post more later. [...]


the emotional point of signs

So my professor, Darrell Guder, would talk about the church as a community like John the Baptist (the guy in red with the old text, who appears posthumously in this painting), pointing to Jesus. My new friend, Pete Rollins talks about “communities as Ikons,” living acting dramatizations of the story of God. So when I [...]