Sacramental Living

Over at The Fire and the Rose, a von Balthasar blog conference is going on.  Wednesday’s essay is here.  My response is here.  Enjoy.

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Brian Niece
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Some interesting things I’ve come across in the last week.

1.  French President Nicolas Sarkozy seems to be breaking the staunch lines of church and state while doing a little communing with God.
2. A Newsweek article states addictions are being considered an illness and not a weakness.
3. The First Amendment of the US Constitution apparently doesn’t cover spam … thank God!
4. Jonathan Brink at Missio Dei discusses justice in the suburbs.
5. Rowan Williams has a new book coming out on the works of Dostoevsky.
6. NextReformation discusses a rule of life in a communal context.
7. The Eye-Mud Blog reviews Malcolm Gladwell’s book The Tipping Point.
8. Paul at The Aesthetic Elevator considers the oddest looking pulpit I’ve ever seen.

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Brian Niece
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This is the first in an ongoing, occasional post where I’ll include some interesting reading I’ve found in recent days.

1. Here’s a Barna Group article on the trend of people finding non-church worship to be biblical.
2. About a quarter of Americans are faith-hopping these days.
3. Roughly 70 percent of churches in US America are offering some sort of health care or service to their communities.
4. How would like your pastor to issue a challenge to couples to have sex every day for 30 days?
5. Here’s 19 practical ways to build better website buzz.
6. David Fitch sees some similarities between Barack Obama and the Emerging Church movement.
7. N.T.  Wright has a new book that might shake up our conception of heaven.
8. NextReformation consults Eugene Peterson on some interesting notes concerning spirituality.

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Brian Niece
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