Posts Tagged ‘otherlyness’
Serving in normal everyday ways
June 12, 2009 by Helen, under The Practicing Church | | No Comments »
The Spiritual Discipline of Serving from Recycle Your Faith
Videos like this remind me of normal everyday ways I can make a difference in the lives of other people. And I can get started today, as I live my normal everyday life. By being present and noticing and listening to other people. Off The Map calls these spiritual practices ‘otherlyness’.
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David Foster Wallace on otherlyness and freedom
May 15, 2009 by Helen, under The Practicing Church | | 2 Comments
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.”
– David Foster Wallace
The quote above is from David Foster Wallace’s 2005 commencement speech at Kenyon College. In it he encouraged students to make the choice to be otherly in the midst of life’s normal daily frustrations. (more…)
Tags: freedom, otherlyness
Otherlyness – the spirituality of serving
April 26, 2009 by Jim, under The Practicing Church | | 14 Comments
This piece shot by Brian Boyle explains Otherlyness
Henderson ISO from B. Boyle on Vimeo.
Tags: Add new tag, Brian Boyle, otherlyness
Personal Local Global
March 22, 2009 by Jim, under The Practicing Church | | 1 Comment
The Practicing Church operates on three different levels: Personally, Locally and Globally. Because the church is generally addicted to drama and allergic to the ordinary we usually only hear stories that have a Global angle (more…)
Tags: otherlyness, Phyllis Tickle
Practicing Pentecostals
March 8, 2009 by Jim, under The Practicing Church | | 4 Comments
By Steve Murray
My wife and I (and twenty three crazy friends) started Real Life Church in Maple Valley eleven years ago. We’ve always met in a school. About 400 people call Real Life home. (more…)
Tags: charismatic/evangelical, experience God, Jesus heals, otherlyness
Greatest gifts meeting greatest needs
March 4, 2009 by Jeff, under The Practicing Church, leadership development | | 13 Comments
Ministry takes place in that region where your greatest gifts meet the world’s greatest need. Frederick Buechner
As Kurt Lewin once said,
All models are wrong, some are useful.
So, let’s consider the fact that a faith community is nested within a greater community (more…)
