And Then There Were None: Farewell to Strangely Dim 2013-03-01T12:35:25-06:00 A final post from David A. Zimmerman I'm tired. So tired. Strangely Dim has been a regular part of my week for nearly ten years now. In that time I've posted over five hundred times and deleted over twelve million...
The Bouncy Ball: A Farewell Note 2013-02-15T09:24:30-06:00 by Suanne Camfield So I have this bouncy ball in my coat pocket. I found it earlier this winter when I stuffed my hands in the pockets of a coat I hadn't worn since last spring. You know how it...
Direction for Life 2013-02-01T13:07:29-06:00 I was feeling a little stuck.
Remembering Birmingham 2013-01-21T08:10:09-06:00 A quick thought from Dave. Every year on Martin Luther King Day I read his Letter from Birmingham Jail to white clergy who had called on him to take it down a notch. Here's the passage that stuck out to...
What I'm Editing: The Easy Burden of Pleasing God 2013-01-17T14:52:00-06:00 By Dave Next week we will send a PDF of Patty Kirk's The Easy Burden of Pleasing God (on my short list for favorite book of 2013--sorry, everyone else) to the printer. Six weeks from then we'll get it back...
A Likewise Year in Review, and Reviews in the Likewise Year 2013-01-04T09:18:24-06:00 Reflections and a mild rant from David A. Zimmerman Well, good riddance, 2012. We're still here and you're not. We're just back from the triennial Urbana Student Missions Conference in St. Louis, and while it will take us a good...
What Jesus Started: Part Five of Five 2012-12-23T08:51:56-06:00 An Advent reflection based on the book What Jesus Started by Steve Addison. Read parts one, two, three and four here. Advent is the beginning of the Christian calendar. While the world waits till January for its hard reboot, Christians...
What Jesus Started: Part Four of Five 2012-12-16T09:10:47-06:00 An Advent series inspired by the book What Jesus Started. Read the entry for the first week of Advent here, and the prefatory post here. Advent is an act of faith. In the weeks that lead up to Christmas we...
What Jesus Started: Part Three of Five 2012-12-09T09:00:54-06:00 An Advent series inspired by the book What Jesus Started. See week one's entry here, as well as a prefatory post here. The season of Advent is the beginning of the Christian calendar. As the world around the church winds...
What Jesus Started: Part Two of Five 2012-12-02T07:55:41-06:00 An Advent series inspired by What Jesus Started. Advent is a time of anticipation. Whether in joyful hope ("Hark, the Herald Angels Sing") or pleading anxiety ("O Come, Emmanuel"), we wait for the world to be set right, symbolized by...
