Posts by Greg Yarnell

Recent events caused me to pick up my copy of Rabbi Michael Lerner’s The Politics of Meaning: Restoring Hope in an Age of Cynicism (Addison-Wesley, 1996). Lerner offers the following definition of spirituality: “an awareness of the fundamental unity of all being, and of our connectedness to one another and to the universe” (page 56).…

Hope everyone noticed that we have new body microphones.  We need to give a special shout out to Mike Kilgore for paying for these from his mother’s estate. WAM

The Team met on Sunday, October 13 to discuss the eight (8) profiles submitted to us by the Regional Office.  After nearly 3 hours of discussion, we made the decision to begin interviewing references for 4 of the candidates.  Each candidate has supplied 4 references, and each reference is called by 2 Team members.  After…

“Changing Pictures of God and Me” is the title of a workshop that will be led by my good friend the Reverend Dr. Art Foster, who was a co-founder of a counseling center in Wichita and was on the faculty of Chicago Theological Seminary and a former Dean of the American Baptist Seminary of the…

This October, I have been turning again to a book of prayers written by Arnold Kenseth, Sabbaths, Sacraments and Seasons. For October, he offers this prayer: “O thou great God who, with thanksgiving, broke bread for our hunger and gave us drink for our thirst, continue in thy mercy to feed us always on thyself.…