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Currently Reading:

Mandate to Difference: An Invitation to the Contemporary Church by Walter Brueggemann

I am America and So Can You! by Steven Colbert

The Manga Bible by Siku

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Children of God by Mary Doria Russell

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

Last Child In The Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature- Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv(Read this!)

Two Minutes For God by Rev. Peter B. Panagore
(I laughed, I cried, it became a part of me)

Here If You Need Me by Kate Braestrup

Excavating Jesus by Jonathan Reed and John Dominic Crossan

Everything Must Change by Brian McClaren

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by Robert Funk, Roy Hoover and the Jesus Seminar

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The Last Week by Marcus Borg & John Dominic Crossan

Eldest by Christopher Paolini

Your call is Important to us by Laura Penny (stopped 'cause it was um, bad.)

In Search of Paul (re-read) by John Dominic Crossan & Jonathan Reed

Ari Paci by Orietta Rossini

Eragon by Christopher Paolini

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

The Left Hand of God by Michael Lerner

The Secret Life Of Lobsters by Trevor Corson

A Long Way From Tipperary by John Dominic Crossan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Pilgrim Lodge

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Rev. Bryan S. Breault MDiv, MSW
Director of Outdoor Ministries
Maine Conference, United Church of Christ

 

Go to the most recent blog entry   April 8, 2008

"The normalcy of civilization is not
the inevitability of human nature"
                  -John Dominic Crossan, October 1, 2005

 

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Separate Pages: apart from the above blog:

Continuing Education in Italy (Oct. 2006)

 Article for the Association of United Church Educators Newsletter

Sabbatical: Pilgrimage to Turkey (Autumn 2004)

An essay on Homecoming (March 2004)

  Admit Something
by Hafiz

Admit Something,
Everyone you see
you say to them
Love me

Of course you do not do this out loud
Otherwise someone would call the cops

Still though
Think about this,
This great pull in us to connect.

Why not become the one
Who lives with a full moon in each eye

That is always saying
With that sweet moon language
What every other eye in the world is dying to hear.

 

Thanks to Gil Healy for the inspiration

 

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Sgt. Jordan D. Cable

 

 

 

 

The Slow Work of God
 by Teilhard de Chardin

Above all, trust in the slow work of God
We are quite naturally impatient in everything we do
     to reach the end without delay.
We should like to skip the intermediate stages
We are impatient of being on the way
     to something unknown, something new.
And yet it is in the law of all progress that it is made
     by passing through some stages of instability.
And that may take a very long time.

     So it is with you.

Your ideas mature gradually  -   let them grow,
let them shape themselves without undue haste.
Don't force them on,
     as though you could be on time.
Only God could say what this new spirit,
     gradually forming within you will be.
Give God the benefit of believing
     that God's hand is leading you surely
     through the absurdity, and the becoming.
And accept, for love of God,
     the anxiety of feeling yourself in
     suspense and incomplete.

And above all, trust in the slow work of  God.

 

 

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April 8, 2008

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Our life is not a problem to be solved, but it is a gift to be opened.  If we listen more carefully for the infinite blessings of a single day, it will help us remember how strong and rich we can be, even in the midst of suffering.  Awareness of the precious elements of happiness is itself, the practice of right mindfulness.  If we can enjoy those elements, the seeds of peace, joy and happiness will be planted in us and they will become strong.  Wherever we are, we have the capacity to enjoy the gifts of sunshine, the presence of each other and the blessings of life."

-Wayne Muller
from "How Then Shall We Live?"