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The Blue Parakeet
Book four for my Regenternship is a book cutely titled The Blue Parakeet. It’s not about bird varieties, and it’s not a cute children’s book either. The Blue Parakeet exists as an avenue for Christians to question “How are we to live out the Bible today?” “I believe we need to begin asking this question […]
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Nothing I Hold Onto
“Her father told his children to pray for patience, for courage, for kindness, for clarity, for trust, for gratitude. Those prayers will be answered. Others may not be. The Lord knows your needs.”Home, Marilynne Robinson Anything else I have writen seems trite and oversaid and annoying so I am just going to write what I […]
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2015 Top 25 || Year in Review
Today is my birthday, today I turned 25! To celebrate another year on earth and the ending of a pretty perfect year I thought I’d do something never before done on this blog: a year in review list! 2015 started out big with a road trip to Oakland with my mom. With very little problems, […]
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Chapter 7 + 8 Thoughts on Heaven & Liturgy
I’m back! After more than a week away from writing I am back. Last week seemed to be full every second of everyday. I was emceeing the second annual Regeneration Christmas Coffeehouse event, I had a busy week at school, I had coffee dates, and housemate dates, I was reading another book, I was living […]
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Chapter 6: Be A Person. Community + Friendship.
Tennessee Beach, from a recent day of exploring with a slice of my community It was nice to take a few days away from writing and process all that Sarah Bessey’s book Out of Sorts has been pouring into my mind. It’s been akin to the age old saying about drinking water out of a […]
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Chapter 4 + 5 – The Wilderness
I am finally home in Oakland. It’s weird to call Oakland home, but it does feel like home. My friends and life and church and Target and coffee shops and support groups are here. I love Oakland and I love my life, but goodness time is slipping away quickly. Over the Thanksgiving break I was […]
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Chapter three – Everyone Gets to Play
What questions of theology have you repeatedly struggled to answer? Do any of Sarah’s ring a bell in your life? Much like Sarah I have often struggled with questions in my faith. I tend to want things to be tidy and organized, all fitting in a nice box, Christianity is messy. It’s arms reach out […]
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Part II, Getting To Know Jesus
Part II of my many part blogging of Out of Sorts by Sarah Bessey When was the last time you talked about Jesus — not church, or God, or Christianity, but Jesus? What did the conversation sound like?After reading this chapter I was struck by her observation that many church can go weeks, maybe even […]
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Out Of Sorts, Sorta. A blog in many parts.
I am reading Out of Sorts by Sarah Bessey as part of the internship. We were assigned 8 mandatory books, and 4 extracurricular books. I chose to read all women for my extras, because they are so often left out of the wider church discussion, unless they fall under the blogger, mommy, childrens church pastor […]
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Thoughts on Divine Conspiracy
Forward: As part of the internship at Regeneration we are asked to write a reflection of the books we are assigned, because I am apparently somewhat of an exhibitionist I decided to do this via a blog post, we are assigned 12 books throughout the year, so this is part 1 of 12. Enjoy. “Compared […]
Speaking about the Sun 