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Naked Spirituality: a review

I think this may be the longest period of time that it’s taken me to finish a Brian McLaren book. I received it on it’s release date (the same day as Love Wins, if memory serves) and I just finished it last week. I chose to read it with a group of friends, and we’ve [...]

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The Way of the Heart: a review

When this posts, I’ll be in the midst of my quarterly retreat. I was assigned for this past quarter Henri Nouwen’s The Way of the Heart: the spirituality of the desert fathers and mothers. For those of you that don’t know, Henri Nouwen was a Dutch Catholic priest and writer (for more, here’s the wikipedia [...]

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Women in the World

On his blog, Brian McLaren lists a sobering set of statistics on the state of women in the world. Here are two that got my attention: 1 in each 6 women in the world is a victim of incest; 1 in each 4 women will experience some form of sexual violence in life; He then [...]

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