If this were an ideal world and I had all the time in the universe to do everything I would like, I’d be reading all sorts of books — and writing lengthy reviews of many of them on this blog. But, alas, ours is not an ideal world, and so like everyone else I have [...]
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A Flock of Books (for the Wild Goose Festival)
Here’s a gallery of selected books by some of the speakers, authors, conversationalists, storytellers, and agitators who will be present at the first Wild Goose Festival, to be held in North Carolina this coming June 23-26. If you’re like me, you probably find this list of books in itself to be pretty exciting. Imagine the [...]
Read full story · Comments { 0 } · February 27, 2011
The Early Goose gets the $99 Worm!
Advance tickets are now on sale for the Wild Goose Festival! Now through November 9, early bird tickets are available for the rock-bottom price of $99 ($49 for kids, with special pricing for families and single-parent families). In exchange for your hard-earned cash, your ticket provides you with 3 days of camping and access to [...]
Read full story · Comments { 0 } · November 3, 2010
Economy of Love
Economy of Love: Creating a Community of Enough A Resource of Relational Tithe Video Sessions with Shane Claiborne Kansas City: The House Studio, 2010 Review by Carl McColman “America thrives on a simple message — that what we currently have is not enough. Not big enough, not nice enough, not fast or hip enough.” This [...]
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The Unformed Future
National Catholic Reporter has published a wonderful article about the recent “Emerging Church” conference in Albuquerque, hosted by Richard Rohr and featuring Shane Claiborne, Cynthia Bourgeault, and others. Read about it here: The Unformed Future
Read full story · Comments { 0 } · July 22, 2010
New Monasticism
New Monasticism: What it Has to Say to Today’s Church By Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2008 Review by Carl McColman “We are waiting not for a Godot, but for another — doubtless very different — St. Benedict,” says Alasdair Macintyre at the conclusion of After Virtue, his withering critique of the ethical [...]
Read full story · Comments { 0 } · March 26, 2010
Quote for the Day
Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do. — Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers
Read full story · Comments { 0 } · January 30, 2010
Books by Carl McColman
- Communion and the Broken Body
- Of Death, Dementia, and Dear Old Friends
- Wasting Time with God
- Of Atheists and Apophatics…
- Concerning Spiritual Noise, (Lack of) Inner Silence, and Singlemindedness
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Benedictine Spirituality and the Community of Hope
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Does God = Consciousness?
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Carmelite Review reviews “Answering the Contemplative Call”
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Concerning Stillness, Songs, and Soul Friends
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Simplicity and Silence
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Jacob: Not a jam band but since you brought up progressiv...
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jacthehat: I really struggle with the divisions of others, as...
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A Christian: I happened upon this blog post today while doing s...
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theperkster: Church leaders pay a high price for excluding cont...
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Eric Robert Nielsen: Hi Ellen, I think the word intellect is being con...
