From Lyn, dated Dec. 12

Hi, everybody. Hope you are all surviving the end of the year rush in church or academia or whatever. It's been a busy semester for me and I still haven't figured out the blog thing so I'm sending it this way and my apologies for some of you who may get multiple copies. Not much computer savvy in my brain. IF you are interested and need some extra reading material (HAH) my sermons from this fall are on the church website. www.hopechurchrca.org Click on worship services and sermons and scroll down to Aug-Nov 2006. Sermons feel flatter in print than in delivery (at least I hope they are better delivered!) but just wanted to prove to Debra and the money givers that I did something useful out of the seminar. :)
Merry Christmas to everybody ...
Lynn Japinga

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happy to share about my new thread in article

Dear friends from the Seminar: I am happy to report that Christianity Today has published a follow-up I wrote to the respondents of my earlier article on their "Out of UR" Leadership blog site. The follow-up is generating really good conversation -- thoughtful, spiritual, wise, enjoyable, challenging, etc. There is more response to the follow up than there was to the original article.

Debra, this whole exercise in writing definitely came from the course you gave, if you need to point to "results", etc.

Kind regards to all. I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving, Advent, Christmas, etc.

Nick Overduin.

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recent publications

Welcome to the new blog! And thanks, Joonna, for bravely posting first.

Once you are on the blog, look to the upper right for the little "new post" button. Click on that and you will get the posting window. Very simple. Please feel free to ask questions if any function isn't clear. You can ask me or Ron at ron.rienstra@gmail.com.

Also, if you would like your contributor name to link somewhere other than where it now links, just send me or Ron an e-mail to that effect.

When you post, try to fill in a word or two in the labels window at the bottom right of the posting window. Maybe we could agree to use "money" as the label for anything having to do with our project. Once you have used a label, it will be available to choose from the next time anyone posts.

Meanwhile, I am wondering if folks could take a minute to post notice of any recent publications. Jana has posted some great snarky and insightful reviews to her blog (use her link under Contributors). Hope you're all keeping up there. But there's more from this group. Let's hear it.

Al and I have a couple things in the latest Ruminate magazine, a new literary journal. It's a print journal, but they have samples online.

Others?

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