Twitter of faith…

November 22, 2008

Some backstory: Adam Walker Cleaveland, recent PTS grad and proprietor of pomomusings, is a candidate for ordination in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). As part of his final steps towards ordination, he must be examined by his Presbytery of Call, and part of that examination includes the presentation of a statement of faith.
These statements of faith [...]

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What we’re after…

November 20, 2008

From Jan:
“Most of all, we just want a community/spiritual connections to be real.”
Yup.

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Pastors who blog…

November 18, 2008

Carol over at Tribal Church posted about a pastor-friend of hers who is moving to Arizona to accept a new call. She describes the situation thus:
He had multiple interviews with the church nominating committee, he preached for the congregation, he went through the excruciating congregational vote. Finally, he met with a clearance committee from his [...]

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The last shot…

November 18, 2008

I was moved by this collection of 10 “last pictures taken” of the subjects prior to their death.
Some of those included are Will Rogers, Albert Einstein, Elvis Presley, Anne Frank, Abraham Lincoln, and Lady Diana. Also included is John and Jackie Knill, who were among the several thousand who perished in the Christmas tsunamis of [...]

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Hope for a Renewed Moral Vision…

November 17, 2008

Certainly, one aspect of my longing for a new administration has been my sense that we need to account for our use of torture (or “enhanced interrogation techniques”) in the Global War On Terror (GWOT). I blogged about my concerns about torture extensively, including its incompatability with Christian Ethics, its lack of utility as a [...]

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Mankind is No Island…

November 16, 2008

My friend B emailed to me a link to Tropfest NY this morning. Tropfest is an outdoor festival showing short films, and this year’s winner is Mankind is No Island…. This 210 second film, shot entirely on cell phone, pairs New York and Sydney on community, empathy, and homelessness. Its moving and powerful:

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Harmony…

November 15, 2008

My friend over at landonville pointed me to zefrank’s delightful photoproject: from 52 to 48 with love. Its a moving collection of pledges to civic unity after the 2008 presidential election, written from the vantage point of either Obama supporters (the 52 percent) or the McCain supporters (the 48), directed to the other.
Here’s some examples:

While [...]

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Welcome back to Kairosblog…

November 14, 2008

Friends, random observers, colleagues, brothers and sisters:
Welcome back to Kairosblog. From the date-stamp on my last post, it looks like we’ve been defunct for almost a year, but in truth it has been longer than that. I’ve, frankly, missed being here, and I’m glad to be back.
The first incarnation of Kairosblog was pseudonymous–by which I [...]

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