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20 June 2014 by thaliakr
At the moment in my corner of the church world (I’m a Kiwi Baptist), the number of our 250-odd churches …
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Category: activism, Bible, bioethics, church, discrimination, equal opportunity, feminism, glass ceiling, pastor, rant, social exclusion, spirituality, working mothers
| Tags: 1 Corinthians, 1 Timothy, Acts, Baptist Union of New Zealand, church leadership, gender and the Bible, John, Luke, Romans, Scot McKnight, women in ministry
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19 February 2014 by thaliakr
This is a mini-series leading up to Lent, which begins in 2014 on March 5. You might like to catch …
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Category: Bible, books, church, church calendar, community, Easter, fasting, food, Lent, prayer, spiritual practices, spirituality
| Tags: baptism, Didache, fasting before baptism, fasting before communion, fasting in Judaism, fasting in the early church, Lent in the early church, Scot McKnight, stationary fasting, The Ancient Practices, the early church, What's the point of Lent?
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17 February 2014 by thaliakr
No one can be right or wrong about how to celebrate Lent, I realised the other day. Lent is a …
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Category: Bible, body image, church, church calendar, fasting, food, generosity, grief, lament, Lent, social justice, spirituality
| Tags: Eastern Orthodox Church, fasting during Lent, Isaiah, Old Testament, Roman Catholic Church, Scot McKnight, The Ancient Practices, What's the point of Lent?
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22 June 2013 by thaliakr
Indulge me in a little linky celebrating. This is the 200th post on Sacraparental, and I’m sitting in Bristol feeling …
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Category: blogging, books, civility, depression, feminism, hilarity, kids, media, motherhood, news, parenting, photography, photojournalism, radio, social media, spirituality, unschooling
| Tags: 101 Cookbooks, blog statistics, blue milk, JesusCreed, Jolisa Gracewood, Keith Ng, lists, Lulastic, Nothing by the Book, Pinterest, podcasts, Public Address, Russell Brown, Sacraparental Top Ten, Scot McKnight, The Big Picture, the Guardian, Undogmatic Unschoolers
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17 February 2013 by thaliakr
I considered procuring a sackcloth onesie recently. A couple of months ago, SBJ began to add sit-down-in-the-street protests to his …
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Category: books, church calendar, lament, Lent, spiritual practices, spirituality, toddlers
| Tags: Bible, Genesis, Jesus, Joseph, Old Testament, Orthodox Jews, physical spirituality, Scot McKnight, tefillin
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17 November 2012 by thaliakr
I attribute my brilliant and amazing parallel parking skills to all the Lego I played with as a kid. I’m …
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Category: boys and girls, feminism, kids, play, science, sexism
| Tags: Barbie, career, engineering, GoldieBlox, Jesus Creed, Lego, Roominate, Scot McKnight, STEM, technology, toys, Toys for Future Engineers
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7 November 2012 by thaliakr
Remember Susan Cain? You may have seen her fabulous TED talk that I posted a week or two ago, based …
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Category: books, church, culture, emotional well-being, kids, marriage, parenting, spirituality, video
| Tags: Adam S McHugh, Extraversion-Introversion, introversion, Jesus Creed, language, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Quiet The Power of Introverts, Scot McKnight, shy, Susan Cain, TED talk, The Introverted Church
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