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Earth July 6, 2022July 6, 2022

When elected officials tell us to vote for them instead of leading, we need new ones

All around me, I see very discouraged friends, ones who are hopeless, as the Supreme Court pillages our rights and as mass shootings happen time […] Read More

Uncategorized April 9, 2015June 9, 2021

I am not the Taco Bell of McDonald’s and Burger King.

I came across Taco Bell’s short film that launched its new breakfast campaign the other day. As McDonald’s experiments with all-day breakfast, the taco fast […] Read More

Vignettes July 4, 2012June 9, 2021

I used to listen to NPR on the radio in my car a lot.

Written in December of 2009. I used to listen to NPR on the radio in my car a lot. NPR has this presence to it, […] Read More

What’s with the categories? They’re all loosely based on Circle of Hope’s idea of spiritual development, utilizing the elements to represent cyclical stages of our growth in Jesus. The posts land somewhere in one of those growth cycles, but are certainly for everyone to read. Following Jesus develops like all human development. At Circle of Hope we see ourselves moving from earth to wind to fire to water in an ongoing, organic process of receiving and enjoying our new, true selves in Jesus.

Earth: Planting seeds of faith and helping them sprout.

Wind: Taking first steps of life in the Spirit.

Fire: Accepting the gifts we bring to a community and our purpose, and learning to give them.

Water: Deepening experience of transformation.