Continuing our Creativity & Spirituality series.
When it comes to creativity quantity quite often must preside over quality, at least initially. Yvz always tells me how the kids that she teaches always struggle with spelling when they are writing stories. She continuously encourages them to just make it up and simply get their ideas [...]

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Have you ever been out walking, noticed a dog, and stopped to play with it, and then realized you never once even looked at the owner in the eye? I did once, and when I looked back I saw look of disgust staring back at my blind eye.
A friend of mine came by a [...]

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Continuing on our Creativity & Spirituality series.
Groups of four were gathered and given a single styrofoam cup. Everyone was invited to communicate to one another what their hopes for the church might be.
The only catch was that they could only communicate in silence through manipulating the styrofoam cup.
What we discovered during the process…
- The [...]

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Continuing on our Creativity & Spirituality series.
I’ve been at IKEA seven times in the last eight days. I’ve found it extremely conducive for my school work, writing, scheming & dreaming. It’s got an excellent $1 breakfast, bottomless coffee or drinks, and a LACK of an internet connection.
I absolutely love having the world [...]

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Continuing the series on Creativity and Spirituality, the song writers today are the prophets and poets of our time.
I think I’ve spent all my life looking for myself and God within music. My wife can attest to the number of songs I rant about endlessly in where I find faith and song converging.
Here’s just [...]

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Innovation is a subset of creativity. It is about taking something that exists and transforming it into something new that is equally if not more extraordinary and beautiful.
If you know anything about religious culture, it often has an ‘us’ and ‘them’ mentality. We’re the chosen few and the rest of the world is [...]

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Continuing our Creativity & Spirituality series…
Seeing the Divine, takes time.
In Exodus, after wandering the dessert for forty-years, it describes Moses seeing something there he had not ever seen before. He encounters a bush that did not seem to ‘burn up’.
As Moses approaches he discovers God calling out to him from within the [...]

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I think you’ll enjoy this one - recapping Stellar’s first four months of life.
Make sure you’ve got the volume up for this.

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What if the whole earth was actually filled with the glory of God?
What if all of creation is groaning and hoping for even more beauty yet to be revealed?
What if since the beginning of time all creation has been screaming out that there is more to life than the visible?
* You can read a bit [...]

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When God created us as creative beings, he must’ve known that we were going to make a mess of things.
Attempting to creatively teach creativity for me had its share of unfortunate incidences as well.
I should have known better that with candles and crayons available people would’ve put the creatively put the two together and caused [...]

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