Gallery How to Be a Fashion-Loving Minimalist If you read an article about how to live without an income every day for the rest of your life, you might be thinking, “Well … that isn’t going to happen.” But you’re wrong, because there is the possibility that we can achieve that on a daily basis. It’s not easy, but there are some […] Written by jack121400 October 1, 2019October 1, 2019 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Good Reads Sunrise and Sunset on Mars To explore the surface of Mars as a whole, scientists have focused almost exclusively on a portion of its surface, called the ‘Celestial latitudes’. It has a latitude of about 55 degrees north, and a longitude of about 2 degrees south. The surface is cold at this latitude, and at a very specific location, in […] Written by jack121400 August 19, 2019August 19, 2019 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Buddhist Wise Effort looks a little different now Over the past year, some of us have been asked to pick up the pace while the rest have been asked to stay home to keep ourselves and others safe. How has it been for you? What have you learned in the process? One aspect of the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path is Wise Effort. Whatever […] Written by Stephanie Noble March 5, 2021March 6, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
General Christian Ḥuṣpāh: How New Christians Can Lead Me, a leader? I was just baptized last week! I mean, I only picked up a Bible about a year ago . . . These were just a few of the doubts flooding my mind as I looked out over the glassy water of Lake Champion on the last night of Chapter Camp. As a […] Written by intervarsity March 5, 2021March 5, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
General Christian A More Holistic Response to the Immigration Crisis Remember the children separated from their parents at the border and held in detention? They were children whose families had escaped terrible violence in their home country to legally request asylum. This incident was the tip of the iceberg of an immigration system that is ineffective, illogical, and inhumane. The U.S. immigration system tears apart […] Written by Red Letter Christians March 5, 2021March 5, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
General Christian The Church as Fertilizer This is the second Sunday in lent and I would like to invite you to think for a few minutes about what that means for you. What is lent about as you understand it? What are we to do during lent? We talk about it every lent – lent is a […] Written by Barbara Barkley March 4, 2021March 4, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Evangelical Quit Your Grumbling and Complaining We are by nature complainers. We live in a whining world. The whole world is whining. Grumbling and complaining are certainly not new problems. In numerous examples in the Old Testament books of Exodus and Numbers, the Israelites bitterly complained against God and against Moses in the wilderness. They had much better food when they […] Written by Paul Tautges March 3, 2021March 3, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
General Christian World Beyond Words In the summer of 2016, I attended my twenty-fifth college reunion. Along with the delights of meeting up with lifelong friends and visiting old haunts, this involved the time-honored ritual of telling people I hadn’t had contact with in a quarter-century where-I-live-now-and-what-I-do. “I live in a community in rural New England centered around the care […] Written by Red Letter Christians March 3, 2021March 3, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
General Christian Dismantling the White Nationalist Jesus We’ve both seen our share of threats. The church Rev. Lines leads was recently vandalized, twice, just days apart. The signage that agrees all black lives do matter, and the symbolic doors that welcome the LBGTQ community, were desecrated. No one was hurt, but this congregation joins a growing list of churches, in addition to […] Written by Red Letter Christians March 2, 2021March 2, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
General Christian US Missile Strike in Syria: What You Should Know All week long, we’ve been reporting from Idlib, Syria, on what’s shaping up to be the next major battle in the country’s decade-long civil war, and how we’re on the ground now, ready to respond. Today, the world woke to news of missile strikes in a different part of Syria—the first such attack ordered by US […] Written by Red Letter Christians March 1, 2021March 1, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
General Christian What Does It Mean To Be Disembodied? What does it mean to be disembodied? Is it disconnection from community? From true friendship? From purpose in life? Is it the endless cycle of diet culture that demands we shrink our flesh, cut ourselves down to size, make ourselves worthy in someone else’s eyes? Is it what happens when we are traumatized and victimized, […] Written by Red Letter Christians March 1, 2021March 1, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Buddhist My True Buddha Self and Me One of the fears that we all have is being alone —especially in a permanent existential sense. So for example, we worry that if our loved one dies, and we have no close family, that we will be alone, not just in the sense of not having someone to offer support, especially in old […] Written by Ronald Hirsch February 28, 2021February 28, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
World Beyond Words In the summer of 2016, I attended my twenty-fifth college reunion. Along with the delights of meeting up with lifelong friends and visiting old haunts, this involved the time-honored ritual of telling people I hadn’t had contact with in a quarter-century where-I-live-now-and-what-I-do. “I live in a community in rural New England centered around the care […] Written by Red Letter Christians March 3, 2021March 3, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Dismantling the White Nationalist Jesus We’ve both seen our share of threats. The church Rev. Lines leads was recently vandalized, twice, just days apart. The signage that agrees all black lives do matter, and the symbolic doors that welcome the LBGTQ community, were desecrated. No one was hurt, but this congregation joins a growing list of churches, in addition to […] Written by Red Letter Christians March 2, 2021March 2, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
World Beyond Words In the summer of 2016, I attended my twenty-fifth college reunion. Along with the delights of meeting up with lifelong friends and visiting old haunts, this involved the time-honored ritual of telling people I hadn’t had contact with in a quarter-century where-I-live-now-and-what-I-do. “I live in a community in rural New England centered around the care […] Written by Red Letter Christians March 3, 2021March 3, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Dismantling the White Nationalist Jesus We’ve both seen our share of threats. The church Rev. Lines leads was recently vandalized, twice, just days apart. The signage that agrees all black lives do matter, and the symbolic doors that welcome the LBGTQ community, were desecrated. No one was hurt, but this congregation joins a growing list of churches, in addition to […] Written by Red Letter Christians March 2, 2021March 2, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
US Missile Strike in Syria: What You Should Know All week long, we’ve been reporting from Idlib, Syria, on what’s shaping up to be the next major battle in the country’s decade-long civil war, and how we’re on the ground now, ready to respond. Today, the world woke to news of missile strikes in a different part of Syria—the first such attack ordered by US […] Written by Red Letter Christians March 1, 2021March 1, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Wise Effort looks a little different now Over the past year, some of us have been asked to pick up the pace while the rest have been asked to stay home to keep ourselves and others safe. How has it been for you? What have you learned in the process? One aspect of the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path is Wise Effort. Whatever […] Written by Stephanie Noble March 5, 2021March 6, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Ḥuṣpāh: How New Christians Can Lead Me, a leader? I was just baptized last week! I mean, I only picked up a Bible about a year ago . . . These were just a few of the doubts flooding my mind as I looked out over the glassy water of Lake Champion on the last night of Chapter Camp. As a […] Written by intervarsity March 5, 2021March 5, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
A More Holistic Response to the Immigration Crisis Remember the children separated from their parents at the border and held in detention? They were children whose families had escaped terrible violence in their home country to legally request asylum. This incident was the tip of the iceberg of an immigration system that is ineffective, illogical, and inhumane. The U.S. immigration system tears apart […] Written by Red Letter Christians March 5, 2021March 5, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Church as Fertilizer This is the second Sunday in lent and I would like to invite you to think for a few minutes about what that means for you. What is lent about as you understand it? What are we to do during lent? We talk about it every lent – lent is a […] Written by Barbara Barkley March 4, 2021March 4, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
