This is a small experiment, as I work to improve my capacity in this place. I am wondering how this page appears, aware that no further editing is possible after posting. In the event that the post works well, would some of you share stories of your resistance activity in the neighbourhood?

Two points from Walter Brueggemann*

* _{"An Imaginative Or" in "The Word Militant"; Fortress, 2007)}

1]  I understand preaching to be the chance to summon and nurture an alternative community with an alternative identity, vision, and vocation, preoccupied with praise and obedience toward the God we Christians know fully in Jesus of Nazareth;

I am quite convinced that there is a general bias for skimming the surface of the main issues confronting us as the opportunity for growth to maturity. We seem quite taken with comforting milk and rather reluctant for that meat by which we are edified for service by divine appointment.

I posted the paragraph below in another thread. One reader said that he could not understand what I was saying. What about you? Do you understand what the paragraph is speaking about?

Is this thread still live?

Seems to me that now is the time for careful consideration of what was experienced in the gathered General Council.

Hi Gang,

The date has been set for the Brantford Charity Airshow for 2009.

It will be at the Brantford Airport on Wednesday September 2, 2009.  Yes, it is the middle of the week.  It is also free admission with all donations going to charity.

The roster so far includes,

The Skyhawks (Canada's premier parachute team)

The Snowbirds (Canada's premier aerobatic team)

Capt. Tim 'Donor' Woods CF-18 Demonstration pilot (and accompanying CF-18)