I taught both elementary and high school for six years before teaching university the rest of my career. Recently, having retired, I have been supply teaching - and have been dismayed by changes I sense in the schools.

In my humble opinion, these are words to consider this weekend....

The Radiant Christ
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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We need change.

We need change.

Greetings

 Greetings, Question: After many years of 
purposly repressing memories of
life, and excellently trained to do so, 
have i compromised my future. In
the sense that now that life is better, 
i cant stop repressing all but the
most crucial of things :L Is there 
treatment for this, home made or 
professional?
 Any tricks to eliminate this?

Last year Greg Prato published a book called A Devil on One Shoulder and an Angel on the Other: The Story of Shannon Hoon and Blind Melon. I don’t find this noteworthy because I’m a fan of Blind Melon (actually, I’m only a fan of the song “No Rain”). I don’t find this noteworthy because his book is ranked #7837 on Amazon.com (#95 in the category “Memoirs”). I find it noteworthy because Greg Prato wrote and published the book himself using Lulu.com. Greg Prato is a rebel.

At one time, book publishing was tightly controlled. You submitted a proposal or a first chapter and a few months later a publisher expressed interest. You were assigned an editor (someone with knowledge in your area) and together you completed the book. Sometime, often far in the future, the thing was published. No more. I could sit down tonight, bang out 200 pages of blog (like the one you are now reading) and send it to Lulu. It would be published online immediately (after using their dandy wizard). Within 5 days you could order on Lulu, and some time in the very near future (if the demand was great enough) it might appear on Amazon.

Publishing is suddenly post-modern. Greg Prato, countless musicians and millions of aspiring film-makers have decided the same thing: let the people decide what is worthy of attention (and sales). The era of tightly controlled access to bookshelves and CD racks is over, and the people can now bypass publishers and find talent on their own. The modern era of editors, publishers and established critics has come to an end.

What on earth does this have to do with the church? Let me tell you.

church- (This is what my dictionary says)

- a building for public worship, especially Christian, worship or religious servicse

-a denomination

-the organization of a church

- any religious body other than Christian; a non christian creed or congregation.

I have heard the bible referred to as the Living Word.

I looked up the word" living" and the dictionary says ,"having life; being alive;full of life, vigorous, strong; active".

So what that says to me, in my personal opinion, is that the bible is a living document and because of this it changes and its meaning changes as we change. Using parables, as an example, if you read a parable over the course of a year, there will be new things that emerge each time we read it.

 Ok, for my first blog EVER on WonderCafe, I'll be telling the world about my beliefs. Start out big, eh?

Hi everyone. Long time. I have had to process a lot of the changes that are happening to me since joining wondercafe, and then finally rejoining a church. One of the things I promised myself when I joined the church was to change myself, but also to contribute to healing in the church. Martin Luther King was right when he said Sunday morning was the time when we ae most segregated. This is still true, but also includes segregation not just by race, but also in other ways, like ability, disability and economic status.