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Lecrae Talks 'Race, Righteous Anger, and Resolution' With Q Ideas (Video)

Lecrae Talks ‘Race, Righteous Anger, and Resolution’ With Q Ideas (Video)

Lecrae was recently on QIdeas.org YouTube channel where the discussion was “Race, Righteous Anger, and Resolution.” (more…)

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Is Unity Realistic Today?

Is unity realistic in our age? Social psychologist Christena Cleveland addresses unity in a multicultural society and what it means to be people of #OneWorld: “The fundamental problem is that we categorize people as ‘us’ or ‘them.’…this has devastating consequences when one group has more power than the other…What if we were all simply ‘us’?” http://qideas.org/videos/achieving-unity/

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“Humility is not low self-esteem, it’s low self-preoccupation.” David Brooks

Will add this quote on humility to my other favorite by C.S. Lewis: “True humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.”

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Find the Freedom of Vocation

Find the Freedom of Vocation #Prismofgrace

Vocation is derived from the Latin word “vox” or “voice” (translated into Greek as “call”) and so we take the broadest view of things: Vocation is one’s entire life lived in response to God’s voice, God’s call. ~ Kate Harris

As part of the class I’m auditing this week at Knox Seminary, God at Work: The Reformation and Vocation, we’re asked to write a 500 word statement about what vocation means…

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Ideas concerning "Sacred"

When the weather is warm, the narrow door to the street of the “Lady Chapel” is open during Morning Prayer at St. Paul’s. On Wednesdays, a garbage truck rolls down the street like clockwork - 7:45 AM - and the sanitation workers pick up the bags of garbage put out on the curb the night before.

Yesterday, during the “Q Commons” event I attended, one of the presenters is the “Anthropologist in Residence” at the New York City Sanitation Department. She is also a NYU professor and has studied over the last few years the work and workers of the NYSD. She talked about the importance of and the impact of the work done for and among the inhabitants of New York City by these peculiar people - far more than simply picking up trash. The ritual of the effort to keep clean the City, the significance of collecting discarded things that could easily drawn the City, the idea of purging from ourselves dirt, rot, what is no longer useful, and that which may hinder.

She then made a comparison to the sacred - this is a sacred, thankless task performed by a “set-apart” group of individuals engaged in the cleansing of the City. She compared what they did to liturgy - the regular rhythm of work done by the same individuals the same way each day, each week and the effect it has on us all over time - the benefit realized by each of us.

On Wednesdays, while we are engaged in the sacred act of Morning Prayer we share the time and space (and noise) for just a moment with another group of odd folks engaged in their own “sacred act.” My hope is that they may benefit from our sacred act as much as we benefit from theirs!

(Okay, one may need to know the more technical definitions of “liturgy” and “sacred” to see any type of connect, but there is an interesting connection, indeed.)

See “Q Ideas" for more info.

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In other words, the “American Dream” does not have to be all about the houses and boats we own, but it can be about the celebration of the prudential and humble steps to steward the infinite grace we receive.

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Q Ideas | Jon Tyson | Cosmopolitan Evangelism

In a culture where religious pluralism has become widely accepted, there is a tendency to back away from evangelism—after all, it's kind of aggressive and could be seen as intolerant. How do we communicate our faith in a way that resonates and does not offend—especially for those who might have built-in anti-Christian attitudes? Jon Tyson, founding pastor of Trinity Grace Church in New York City, offers insights into what it means to do evangelism in an urban, pluralistic, often hostile context. He says it takes recognizing a long-term view—that evangelism isn't the work of a moment and it cannot be about counting "how many" were saved today or this month or this year.

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I Want to Assume God is Present

I Want to Assume God is Present | Read: #PrismofGrace

On the Q Ideas site, Justin McRoberts responded to the question of What Can Artists Teach the Church? with a post titled The Art of Listening. He uses the story of Phillip crossing paths with the Ethiopian Eunuch, and summarizes the Spirit’s instructions to Phillip as “go and listen.”

It’s an excellent post that I recommend reading in its entirety as it reflects upon how artists are uniquely able…

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