September 2010
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"Spiritual & Moral Tenderness allows us to... →
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Spiritual & Moral Tenderness allows us to Survive
. This weekend I visited Duke Divinity School and went to a conference there called “Friendship at the Margins: Mutuality in Ministry Among the Poor.” I haven’t felt for a long time that I was surrounded by people that I could look up to in many ways and follow them as they follow Christ. Chris...
'Friendship at the Margins' :: Book Review by... →
“Friendship at the Margins” by Christopher Heuertz and Christine Pohl I have been looking forward to this book for months, and I finally got my hands and head around it after hearing about it all winter. Casey read ‘Friendship in the Margins’ with our Ubuntu ‘interns’ and they all loved it and the conversations that naturally flowed from the challenges within...
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We Have a Friend Named Tuna :: from the Word Made... →
We have a friend named Tuna.
Tuna sleeps on the sidewalk across the street from one of Kolkata’s (formerly Calcutta, India) largest outdoor markets. He spends his days outside the Government Art College.
Tuna carries all he owns in a bag or tied up in a blanket. He usually has some old notebooks or a newspaper completely filled with sketches and drawings. Sometimes he has another shirt or some...
“It is hard to imagine sustaining significant friendships on the margins if we...”
– “Friendship at the Margins: Discovering Mutuality in Service and Mission,” by Chris Heuertz and Christine Pohl (IVP, 2010): page 126.
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'Do we stand with Tutella Dhas?' :: from the... →
In Simple Spirituality, Chris Heuertz tells a story of his encounter with Tutella Dhas, a young man Chris and his friends found dying on the streets of Calcutta. After trying to speak and cleaning him as well as they could, they were able to find a taxi to go Mother Theresa’s House for the Dying. It wasn’t until after Tutella left with two of Chris’s friends that Chris noticed...
'A Few Recent Books on Spirituality' :: by Byron... →
Pilgrimage of a Soul: Contemplative Spirituality for the Active Life Phileena Heuertz (Likewise/IVP) $15.00 Earlier this summer I got to do a small workshop on the Biblical basis for and the spirituality that helps fund, a life-long commitment to social justice. Some of the books that relate faith formation and justice work are near classics (like, say, The Active Life by Parker Palmer, drawing...
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WatchJune 7th, 2010 on ‘Brad Lomenick :: On The Journey’
Had the chance to catch up with Phileena Heuertz and talk about her new book Pilgrimage of a Soul. Phileena is the co-director of Word Made Flesh, an amazing organization that ministers to the poorest of the poor around the world.
Phileena is a fresh voice on spirituality, the contemplative life, justice, and activism. The tag line for the new...