You know, I was going to write this great post about being a priest and a prophet in the post-modern reformation, complete with quotes from Peterson, scripture references from Jeremiah, and some back up from the lessons of history. But you know what? I don’t want to spend the next two days debating my point.

Instead, I think I’ll just celebrate actual stuff that happened in kingdom today…at least in the tiny part I live in. ‘Cuz all that theory, sure, it’s important, but it’s where the rubber meets the road that it really matters. So here’s what happened today in the kingdom that lies on the edge of Fremont and Wallingford…

…a friend stood in her own power and made … {read more…}

New Year’s Reflection
Spend 10-20 minutes on some or all of these questions. A journal, calendar, or photo album of the last year may help trigger your memories.

Looking back over the past year what do I find to……
….be thankful about…to celebrate….

….to mourn….to feel loss around….

Looking over the past year where do I find….
…places of clarity….

….places of confusion or uncertainty….

Looking over the past year what…
….memory do you want to hold on to?

…event do you want to let go of?…

For the Group…If you have one hope or dream that you are hoping to see grow in the coming year, please share it with the group and hang in on the shrine. 

One your own….
What do I want to do with one (or … {read more…}

Woke up with a migraine and slept three hours today, after I took the girls to school. That’s the wonder of demoral. Two of them knock me out. I’ve never understood how people can take fistfuls of them and remain upright. The relief from the pain is very tempting though, so I do see how folks get addicted to them. I resisted narcotics as a migraine “treatment” for two years, and then let the doctor prescribe me some. She doles them out in small batches and I tell Paul every time I have to take one, which is about twice a month. I have such and addictive personality so I feel like I really need the accountability. If only … {read more…}

Bob Carlton over at The Corner has gathered up the usual bang up collection of Top Five posts for 2005 from various bloggers. Do go and give it a gander. Top Five at Bob’s

So, anyway…moving on from yesterday’s blog post…

Monkfish Abbey took up the task of making prayer flags this year as a form of intercession. We experimented with prayer flags because most of our tribe are recovering evangelicals and/or artists and your basic “Dear God, please help such-and-thus” kind of prayer isn’t really functioning for them anymore. But we do want a transformative faith, we want to be about something much larger than ourselves. So we needed to find a way to connect with the wider world around us, and to join our siblings in sorrow and hope, loss and recovery, and to talk to God about all that stuff. Prayer flags, in Seattle, are a fairly common site — … {read more…}

Recently I watched Kingdom of Heaven. There were three things that struck me about the film. The first was that prior to Christianity’s occupation of Jerusalem, the city was relatively open. Though Muslim controlled, Jews and Christians alike were allowed to come and worship. It was only after the crusades that the city became closed to one faith or the other. Second, I was struck by the way each side of the Muslim-Christian conflict would claim that God had issued their marching orders. This wasn’t news to me – we’ve obviously been doing throughout humankind’s long history. But there was something about seeing the various generals crying out “God wills it!” or “Allah wills it!” that brought the reality home … {read more…}