Author: Andrew Gerns

Sunday Social Hour

As the Cafe Facebook feed springs back into life–albeit tepidly–the comments are returning. In this week’s Social Hour, people are talking about Orombi, the M-word, and 20-something-ness.

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Learning to speak Christian

Dr. Stanley Hauerwas: “In truth, I have only come recently to understand that what I have been doing for many years has been teaching people how to talk.”

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20-somethings. What is the church doing?

… a young man hangs up his new Ph.D. in his boyhood bedroom, the cardboard box at his feet signaling his plans to move back home now that he’s officially overqualified for a job. In the doorway stand his parents, their expressions a mix of resignation, worry, annoyance and perplexity: how exactly did this happen?

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The holiness of spiritual journey

Do you need to leave home to experience the holy? The Washington Post’s “On Faith” column takes on the question of leaving home and going on pilgrimage to experience the holy. How does your spiritual tradition take on the practice of pilgrimage, of spiritual journey?

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The lonely American

“Sympathy’s long-ago advocates were onto something when they reckoned friendship one of life’s highest pleasures, and they felt themselves freer than we do to revel in it.”

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Sunday Social Hour

Catching up with our social media spaces, finally. Or should we say our social media spaces are finally catching up with us?

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Taizé community marks 70th year

Yesterday was the 70th anniversary of the founding of the ecumenical monastic order and spiritual-pilgrimage destination center in Saône-et-Loire, France, by Brother Roger Schutz.

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