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UPCOMING BLOGS: A SERIES ON RADICAL EASTER HOSPITALITY

April 14: cialisfrance24.com RADICAL EASTER HOSPITALITY;   TABLE FELLOWSHIP DOWN BY THE SEASIDE April 21: RADICAL EASTER HOSPITALITY:  ACTIVE RECONCILIATION April 28: RADICAL EASTER HOSPITALITY:  ACCOMPANIMENT ON THE JOURNEY May 6:  RADICAL EASTER HOSPITALITY:  FULLY CONNECTED May 13: RADICAL EASTER HOSPITALITY:  LOVE RADICALLY May 20: RADICAL EASTER HOSPITALITY:  RADICAL JOY May 27: RADICAL EASTER HOSPITALITY:  EXPLOSIVE […]

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Fasting: Meatless Days

For centuries the Christian Church has asked Christians to refrain from eating meat on Friday as a fasting discipline to support remembering the death of Christ.  This has been a controversial, but meaningful practice, that has especially been highlighted in Lent.  I mean, even McDonald’s offers Lenten specials on their fish fillet each Friday during […]

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Book Suggestions:

Hogeland, Debora (2000)  Widening the Circle: Inspiration and Guidance for Community Living.  Prescott:  Hohm Press. In her own words, Hogeland states, “Widening the Circle focuses on community as a dynamic, evolving process through which the individual and the world can be effectively transformed.”  Hogeland reviews practical aspects of community life, including gender issues, diversity and […]

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I GUESS IT’S A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE

I heard two comments and read two things this past week that really struck me as interesting and interrelated.  I was in a store that specialized in home design.  Chatting with the salesperson, she asked me, “Do you decorate for the Christian holiday?”  I thought, “What an odd way to ask that question.”  Christmas is […]

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PLEASE PROVE ME WRONG!!!!!!!!……………..A PEEK AT THE FUTURE

“My mother’s lament, that we live too long and die too slowly, has become more common, with impact on two generations as medical science has made it possible to keep very sick and very old people alive longer.  The typical eighty-five year old, geriatric researchers say, can expect more than two years at the end […]

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    I was at a luncheon that was serving as a listening post for seniors to describe their sense of loneliness and isolation. I knew that the population invited to this luncheon was one that would probably have a higher sense of isolation, but, what I heard was much more intense than I expected. A man […]

  • Social Networks and Aging

    It is interesting that research is showing two demographics experiencing social isolation in such as way as to impact health: Young Adults (18-22) and Senior Adults (65+). I have worked with both populations over the past 50 years and I continue to be amazed at the similarity of the questions raised by both groups and […]

  • An Eye-Opening Awareness: One More Transition for this Guy

    I sat at a luncheon two weeks ago that opened my eyes to a reality that I knew was there, but as the discussion unfolded I began to realize how the discussion, about to take place, was going to expand my thinking. As I listened to the needs of the people with whom I shared […]

  • TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE: LETTING GOD SET THE AGENDA

    When it comes to the human condition and a desire to change, we can become easily frustrated: we think that we want to change … but we really don’t. Paul expresses this contradiction well in Romans 7:15-24: “I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do […]

  • The Crisis of Loneliness

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