Chris H. posted an article on The Lord, The Blues, and the Art of Being Smooth - Nov 25, 2009, 1:21 pm
Campolo and Bono do a great job expressing eloquently the social imperative the follower of Christ faces.  They resonate with me, much like the emotional growl of a great jazz singer or the funky...
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Chris H. posted an article on The Lord, The Blues, and the Art of Being Smooth - Nov 23, 2009, 1:37 pm
The work of inner healing sneaked up on me. Unlike last time when I had made a conscious effort to work things through, today I was caught off guard.  It began last night as memories of the pain ...
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Chris H. posted an article on The Lord, The Blues, and the Art of Being Smooth - Nov 21, 2009, 5:09 pm
Forgive the incoherence of these thoughts, they come from the cloud of a swine flu mind. I am captured by Yoder's thoughts on justification.  He asserts that Paul had the unification of Jew a...
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Chris H. posted an article on The Lord, The Blues, and the Art of Being Smooth - Nov 17, 2009, 5:05 pm
As Wilberforce grew in his contemplative desire, so too was he drawn to the dark places.  The mystic who wrote the Cloud of Unknowing calls the place of highest contemplation a dark cloud, where ...
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Chris H. posted an article on The Lord, The Blues, and the Art of Being Smooth - Nov 10, 2009, 10:29 pm
Meditation on Isaiah 58:1-6 Proclaim the injustice to the church. They act like their nation has been chosen by me. They act as if their going to church and their religiosity, their work ethic an...
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Chris H. posted an article on The Lord, The Blues, and the Art of Being Smooth - Nov 4, 2009, 2:32 pm
In other words there is a great danger in facile and thoughtless verbalizations of spiritual reality. All true spiritual disciplines recognize the peril of idolatry in the irresponsible fabrication of...
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Chris H. posted an article on The Lord, The Blues, and the Art of Being Smooth - Oct 16, 2009, 9:32 pm

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Chris H. posted an article on The Lord, The Blues, and the Art of Being Smooth - Sep 9, 2009, 8:25 pm
How can I lead people to find the spirituality of work from the ivory tower of vocational church life?  How can my spiritual formation matter to people in the real world when I am seen as an oddi...
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Chris H. posted an article on The Lord, The Blues, and the Art of Being Smooth - Sep 4, 2009, 11:51 pm
In our ministerial group we have on occasion batted around the question: does God have a real needs? Does God need us? Does God need companionship? Does God need our service? In thinking so about...
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Chris H. posted an article on The Lord, The Blues, and the Art of Being Smooth - Aug 25, 2009, 10:28 pm
The central question facing Christian leaders today, I think, is: Are we going to be led? Nouwen rightly points out that the cure to the temptation to relevance is mysticism. The Christian leader mu...
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Chris H. posted an article on The Lord, The Blues, and the Art of Being Smooth - Aug 25, 2009, 2:59 pm
Anxiety threatened to steal my day Opressed me like the mourning A frieght train whistled Delivering me to the Eternity of an Indian summer
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Chris H. posted an article on The Lord, The Blues, and the Art of Being Smooth - Aug 1, 2009, 3:39 pm
Thou movest us to delight in praising Thee; for Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee - St. AugustineLast night as I was praying night prayer with di...
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Chris H. posted an article on The Lord, The Blues, and the Art of Being Smooth - Jul 29, 2009, 3:28 pm
View Biking in a larger map Today, I didn't bike to Unionville as I would normally do. The espresso machine is disconnected at the coffeehouse until the health dept. finally comes through. In a...
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Chris H. posted an article on The Lord, The Blues, and the Art of Being Smooth - Jul 8, 2009, 3:26 pm

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