I haven’t written much from Camp’s book recently, but here are a couple of other quotes from a section I read through recently. In discussing just war and “just war Christians”, he shares the following story:
Indeed, those who bore the name of Christ were those who often perpetuated the madness of twentieth-century warfare, simply [...]

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It’s been a pretty busy week this week. Actually, it’s been a pretty busy month. So, I’m finding it difficult to find much time to do any real posting.
Like Monday, here’s a few random things.
McChurch
Check out the discussion going on over at Mike’s blog. I hadn’t checked the comments since [...]

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The Work of the People have some good stuff on their site. Check out this one from yesterday:

Perhaps the quote that stood out the most to me was this:
Most of the churches and religious things I’ve been to was not about sharing my “stuff” with, it was really about making sure my “stuff” was [...]

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Seems like every time I read about someone doing a Wordpress upgrade, it’s never a good experience. Perhaps that’s because nobody posts about upgrades that go smooth. Well, that’s what happened for me. I’d never upgraded, and decided to do so recently. It went fine, with the only issue being that [...]

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My 8-year-old daughter is attempting to permanently take over our home computer. Webkinz must be destroyed.
She’s also moved on from the likes of “Dora The Explorer” and such, and now watches Disney programs like “The Suite Life of Zack and Cody” and the one with Billy Ray Cyrus and his daughter.
My 3-year-old son often [...]

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Just a few things on this Friday before Festivus…
Early Christmas presents
While growing up, nearly every Christmas my siblings and I would always plead with our parents to open just one Christmas present early. We already opened some presents early anyway - on Christmas Eve. I had 3 siblings, and we would open our [...]

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As we prepare to celebrate the birth of the Prince of Peace, I thought I would post the following from Shane Claiborne’s book The Irresistible Revolution. In his chapter where he records the details of his visit to Iraq, he writes the following:
I was invited to worship services nearly every day while in Iraq. [...]

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College basketball will be here soon, so expect to see a fair amount about it here. But before I start in on basketball, allow me to direct you once again over to Scott Freeman’s place to check out the converstaions going on regarding non-violence. Excellent posts and discussiong thus far. Okay, maybe [...]

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I saw this post over at Church Marketing Sucks. It appears that The Church Report has released this year’s list of 50 Most Influential Churches. You can view the article here (PDF), which also explains how the list is compiled. The article didn’t really appear to define what it means to be an influential church, [...]

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I haven’t found time to post the last week or so. Probably won’t as much in the next week or two, either. On top of that, I haven’t been able to log in for the last 24 hours or so, which hindered this being posted earlier. So, here’s a few items from [...]

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