Saturday’s Saskatoon StarPhoenix got it right: I’m boarding the Spirit Express this morning as the means by which to continue participating in all kinds of “conversations at the table.” I am grateful for many opportunities to share myriad concerns and joys of members and leaders, and for the ways your concerns and joys lead you—and me—into deeper participation in God’s healing work.

We use words but I want to know meanings. In the "Dead" thread this phrase has been used over and over again - spiritually dead.

What is that?

What is spiritually alive?

Who are we to say that someone is spiritually dead?

Help me out here.

I missed the Terry Fox experience the first time around.

In March, 1980, before Terry started running, I left for a six-month student exchange in México. I returned to Canada on September 5, 1980, four days after he stopped running. When I settled into my seat on my Air Canada return flight from Mexico City, the flight attendant handed me a complimentary copy of the Toronto Sun. The front page carried a picture of Terry Fox. I read his name and thought:

Marcus Borg estimates that 10-20% of Christians have met the actual 'spirit,' ghost if you will, of Jesus of Nazareth.

How do you react to something like that?

How does it affect you?

Have you met Him?

Are you afraid to talk about it in the Church?

I often find that images, artwork, photos etc will capture something that words cannot.  Are there images that speak to you of your faith - that speak without the aid of words?  I'm curious to see if we can maintain spirit filled thread without words or commentary... 

Jesus instructed those who chose to be followers of The Way--and this includes us today--not just to preach, but to teach and heal. 

In the light of this I ask: Is our church really serious about  being involved in the healing ministry and the integration of body, mind and spirit so much a part of the ministry of Jesus.?

In our concern, and rightly so, the ecology of our globe let us also include the ecology of our individal bodies.

I arrived a few minutes late to church. I had miss placed my iPod touch, and was looking for it before I left. (As I use it to follow along the church service).and I have been having trouble sleeping all week, so I woke up late.  The church was fuller then it had been all summer (or any church service I had been to in the summer), so we had run out of Church Bulletins by the time I arrived.