• Mosaic Community

    Christian Associates has recently made a video of a neat church community in Glasgow, Scotland. It’s called Mosaic Community. Take a look! — John

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  • The Desecration of the Greens and Other Such Nonsense

    “It’s the ‘desecration of the greens!’” I complained to my coworker Connie the other day. Proud of my feat of wordplay, I disappeared into our office break room before emerging again with more post-Christmas fodder: “It’s the ‘abomination of advent.’” Thud. Not so clever. So much for wordplay! I was describing the “undecorating” of our…

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  • Cha… Cha… Cha… Changes

    Change can be a hard thing to accept. Right now my church is going through some changes, with three full-time staffers departing and two new ones coming in. This is just the latest series of many major staff changes. In the past five years we have had nearly 80-percent turnover on our staff. For those…

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  • Nine Ladies Dancing…

    On the ninth day of Christmas, that is. Which happens to be… today. Seen any ladies dancing? Me neither. But somewhere on this planet there must be nine ladies dancing.The song says so, that’s why! Speaking of which, why would someone’s true love give them nine ladies dancing for Christmas? Sounds a little strange to…

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