Recommended: looking out the window
Here’s one of my favorite things to do on a Sunday: to settle into our red rocking chair with my feet on the ottoman,…
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Community begins
Community begins when people open themselves to the lives of others and then allow themselves to be changed by what they discover. It means…
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The story of early Christian monasticism as a whole … can serve as a rich cultural resource capable of supporting the work of developing…
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Of the praise of neologisms, the promiscuous coining of words, as if it meant initiative and daring, new and fresh life, strength and courage,…
Read MoreExploring the full complexity
Naïve cynics shoot down possibilities, including the possibility of exploring the full complexity of any situation. They take aim at the less cynical, so…
Read MoreFrenzy destroys
To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit to too many…
Read MoreTo get through this thing called life
Dearly beloved We are gathered here today To get through this thing called life Electric word life It means forever and that’s a mighty…
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Learning to live on both sides of the river
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this 2002 piece, Bill Boerman-Cornell reviews a book worth…
Read MoreWith a hundred voices
Beneath the vast skies the darkening colorful fields lie flat—wide hilly waves of rustling heather, bordering them stubble-fields and new-mown buckwheat, which with its…
Read MoreOut on a wide river
But faith is not necessarily, or not soon, a resting place. Faith puts you out on a wide river in a little boat, in…
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