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The Dude Abides · 5d ago

God’s Politics Blog Bono to the G8: Transparency, ‘We Won’t Have Food Security Without It’

One of these things is not like the others. In a room filled with African heads of state, captains of industry, leaders of international development and countless executives from NGOs at the G8 Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Security in Washington, D.C. late last week, stood one Irish rock
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The Dude Abides · 6d ago

Wild Goose Festival: God Girl AND Crime Boy (It’s a Family Affair!)

Cathleen will be speaking at this year’s Wild Goose Festival outside Durham, N.C. A cousin of the storied Greenbelt Festival in the U.K., the Goose is a four-day festival of “justice, spirituality, music and art” on a farm in rural North Cackalacky. June 21-24, 2012: The Wild Goose Festival Shakori
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The Dude Abides · 6d ago

Rob Bell: ‘Surrender the Outcomes’

How do you step out and take a risk — as a pastor, as an artist, as a parent, as a person — when the job description of a pioneer or a vanguard comes with the assurance of persecution? “Surrender the outcomes,” Rob Bell told the audience at his intimate gathering, Two Days with Rob [...]
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The Dude Abides · 6d ago

Bare Feet and Dolphins: The Return of Rob Bell

“Oh, a dolphin.” The speaker, dressed in khaki jeans, a blue t-shirt and flip-flops, interrupts his train of thought about spiral dynamics and the church when some movement in the ocean a few hundred yards away on the other side of the beach house’s open briefly catches his attention. The audience o
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The Dude Abides · 6d ago

I Am My Mother’s Daughter (Thanks Be to God)

“My mother… she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.” ~ Jodi Picoult When asked to describe my mother, Helen, my usual answer is: Queen Esther in espadrilles and a matching purse. Esther comes to mind when I think of [...]
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The Dude Abides · 2W ago

Justin Bieber Thanks His Mother for Faith, Strength (and Helps Single Moms While He’s At It)

What can I give back to God for the blessings he’s poured out on me? I’ll lift high the cup of salvation—a toast to God! I’ll pray in the name of God; I‘ll complete what I promised God I’d do, and I’ll do it together with his people. ~ Psalm 116:12 (The Message) ++++++++++++++++++++++++ You [...]
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The Dude Abides · 4W ago

Join GG for Girls Night Out in Irvine, California TONITE!

7 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, April 27, 2012 Mariners Church, the Upper Room 5001 Newport Coast Dr. Irvine California 92603-0164 949.769.8100 For more information (it's only $5, cuz I'm a cheap date, apparently) please click HERE.
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The Dude Abides · 2M ago

Soul Food

When Sojourners CEO Jim Wallis departed on his three-month sabbatical at the beginning of January, I sent him a list of books, films and music that I thought would nourish his mind and spirit in, perhaps, different ways than the media he normally consumes do. Jim’s sabbatical — a true Sabbath in the
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The Dude Abides · 2M ago

Chocolate in the Baptismal Font: Things that Happen When Women Are Ordained

Over the weekend, I spent a few delicious hours watching episodes of the BBC’s The Vicar of Dibley, including the Christmas special from several years back where Geraldine** (Dawn French), the eponymous vicar, receives two surprise gifts from her parishioners in honor of her 10-year-anniversary at s
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The Dude Abides · 2M ago

Lost in Translation: Eugene Peterson and ‘The Message’

Eugene Peterson has written more than 30 books on theology and the life of faith in his 80 years, but he is perhaps best known for the one book he didn’t write: The Bible. Peterson’s “para-translation” of the Bible, The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language, was published over a span of nine y
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