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Happy Internet Evangelism Day!

Today is Internet Evangelism Day, part of Digital Outreach Month. Digital mission is going to be the focus of a lot of my thinking in the coming years (more on that soon), so I’m especially gratified to hear that others … Continue reading

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Resources for Including People with Intellectual Disabilities

On March 26, Dr. Ralph Honderd gave a forum at VTS on ministry with people with intellectual disabilities. This is an area of our ministry of welcome in which so many churches have significant room for improvement. The good news … Continue reading

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Preliminary Thoughts on “Fixing Adult Formation”

Derek Olsen, one of the more interesting Daily Episcopalian columnists at Episcopal Café, wrote an article a couple of days back about the power of the Internet to be part of the solution to the challenge of Fixing Adult Formation. … Continue reading

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Lenten Meditations and Blogs

Many parishes help individuals deepen their faith by sponsoring a set of Lenten meditations written by and for members of the church. Some churches expand the reach of these meditations by publishing them on a blog, so they can be … Continue reading

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Upcoming Event: VTS Forum Hour

Last announcement of the afternoon, I promise: IntoAllTheWWWorld.org will be the subject of a presentation at the VTS Forum Hour on February 21. Here’s the blurb: ************ 2/21/12: Into All The WWWorld, and Other Science Experiments Come learn about a … Continue reading

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Bookmarks for NAECED

Our good friend Dorothy Linthicum recently suggested that we make up some promotional bookmarks for her to distribute at next week’s conference of the National Association for Episcopal Christian Education Directors. With some help from Susan Shillinglaw and Marshall Finch of the VTS … Continue reading

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Course Preview, Part 5 — “‘Into a wider world’: Conversations between science and religion”

We wrapped up our pilot offering of the science and theology course on Tuesday, so once again we have some more slide and handout resources to share with you in addition to some content from the final core lesson of … Continue reading

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Course Preview, Part 4 — “‘Into a wider world’: Conversations between science and religion”

Last night our pilot group gathered for the second session of its romp through our course on science and religion. We worked through the material of Lesson 3: Evolution and creation theology | “I am marvelously made.” This material is more challenging … Continue reading

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Miscellaneous Links

We’ve got a couple of interesting news items, and a couple of new resources, to tell you about: “For God So Loved the 1 Percent …”: A New York Times opinion piece, obviously from a liberal perspective, that gives some of … Continue reading

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Exciting Announcement + Course Preview, Part 3 — “‘Into a wider world’: Conversations between science and religion”

Tonight, our course on science and theology is going to be taught to an in-person audience for the first time! Because we need to teach the five-session course in just three evenings, we’ve assigned the course introduction as preparatory online … Continue reading

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