Wim Wenders at Image

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So once more, sitting in a field and letting the sun shine on me, I ask myself: “Why do I believe in God, Wim?”

“He called me by my name.”

He did. That’s all I can say in the end.

I am thankful for that every day.

Grace.

Most amazing experience of my life.

Wim Wenders

I was pleasantly surprised to see film-maker Wim Wenders as Image Journal’s artist of the month. They also have an article by Wenders entitled Interrogation.

If you are interested, there is also an interview with him at the website of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco.

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Read more | Comments (0) | September 28th, 2008

autumn (4)

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Read more | Comments (0) | September 22nd, 2008

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I’ve really been lax on the ‘instamatic’ part of this blog recently (I know what you’re thinking, the theology wasn’t too hot either…), so here, over the next few days, are some autumn-related pictures.

(All brought to you thanks to direct scanning of the objects. Which raises the question, are they photos?)

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Read more | Comments (1) | September 21st, 2008

celebrating cultivation

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In the same vein as the last post, here is a quote from Andy Crouch (see Cultivating Where We’re Planted)

In their book Church on Sunday, Work on Monday Laura Nash and Scotty McLennan tell the story of the woman who litigated the clean up of the terribly polluted Boston Harbor for the Environmental Protection Association—one of the major environmental breakthroughs of the twenty-first century. She was a member of an evangelical church, and the only time she was ever recognized from the front of this church was the year that she taught second grade Sunday school. Obviously we should celebrate our Sunday school teachers, but when one of our members acting out of vocation leads in such a tremendous restoration of God’s creation, why wouldn’t we celebrate that, too? And if our churches celebrated that more there would be a less of a sense of saying “yes” to the one, “no” to the other.

Celebrating what people are doing out beyond church walls feels like a risk for pastors, but I think that fear is unfounded.

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Read more | Comments (0) | September 8th, 2008