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  Any way we can (part four in ubuntu series)

  10.27.06 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  So if ubuntu is so damn important—maybe even all we really need—how do we do it? Short answer: any way we can.
  Buddhism has a nice concept called “upaya.” Upaya is the idea that, when crossing the river to enlightenment, any water-worthy thing that gets you across will do. Bass […]

• blessed-community, congregationalism, ekklesia, ordination, seminary, upaya

  Follow up: The gifts and graces for ministry

  07.31.06 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  A People So Bold and Boy in the Bands have each responded to my recent salvo on what ministry is and ain’t. Some further thoughts:
  1. Ministry is not a profession. The professions—law, medicine, and psychology, most typically—are necessarily self-serving guilds. By credentialing and policing their members, they preserve the power to […]

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