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Shawna’s live painting at Moltmann conversation
Shawna painted this 8 x 6 foot mural during the Wednesday night session of the Moltmann conversation. It took her a couple of hours. She began during the welcome and painted all through the opening...
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Self-portrait :: Story Cycle :: Worth Remembering
Well, I am down for the count with this cold/flu everyone has. So instead of watching TV from bed, I worked on an art project that the Wicker Park Grace Art Forum peeps have been encouraging me to do....
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Stations of the Cross (original art)
In 2007 the Wicker Park Grace community created original art representing the Stations of the Cross. Traditionally, there are 14 stations, each representing a moment on the day of Jesus’ crucifixion....
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Catching the Light
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established; what are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them? Psalm 8:3-4...
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Born of a Woman
Last year (2010) in the weeks leading up to Christmas, we did an art project at Wicker Park Grace during our Sunday Gatherings in which we transformed Christmas advertisements into a spiritual symbol....
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Wordle!
What fun! This week I was introduced to a new website: wordle.net. Just type in words, or paste in large amounts of text, and “create.” The larger the word, the more times it appeared in your text....
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Visual Prayer–Dear God, are you here?
These original photos were taken at Lake Michigan on my iPhone 4 through the instagram app. I tweeted them with words of prayer, and this is how I prayed that day. I put the slides with words into a...
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Unambiguous Appearance of God
Today is Epiphany, a day on which we celebrate the appearance of God in human form–the incarnation. Although we celebrate the birth of Jesus on December 25th, today we celebrate the first “appearance”...
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Be Amazing
For the last two weeks I’ve been preaching on 1 Corinthians 12, the verses where it talks about us having a variety of gifts empowered by the same spirit. It’s a message that Paul was giving to the...
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Church for the 21st Century
I just returned from a 3-day leadership consultation with the national offices of the Presbyterian Church (USA). My good friend and colleague, Rev. Shawna Bowman was there too. She wrote/drew the...
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A Dynamic Faith
“Baptism” by Shawna Bowman About ten years ago I got an email about Grace Commons (then called Wicker Park Grace) that said this: Before our discussions I naively thought that Christianity was a one...
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Divergent Thinking
A mentor of mine once told me that part of my job is to leave the office sometimes and go to the movies, or go for a walk, or go to the lake so that I can get distance from what I am trying to do. It’s...
View ArticleSpiritual Practice@Home :: See Beauty, give thanks
Wherever you are, find something beautiful today. Look at it for a long time. Try to really see it. It might be something out your kitchen window, or something on your desk. It might be the face of...
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