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Connections |
A monthly letter calling the church to faithful new life
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See and hear an interview with Barbara. Go to www.darkwoodbrew.org
and click on the link to the January 1, 2012 episode. The interview starts about
30 minutes into the video.
See a review
of Misfits from Magnet,
an independent Christian magazine published in England.
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You can get Barbara's
most recent
book
Misfits:
The Church's Hidden Strength (St. Johann Press, 2010)
in one of 3
ways:
Phone St. Johann Press at 201-387-1529 to order with a credit card;
Order online from Amazon.com;
Mail Barbara (505 Cherokee Dr., Temple TX 76504) your check
for $24 for a signed copy. To see
the Table of Contents and some other pages of Misfits, click on this
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Connections is a 4-page
monthly letter written and published by
Barbara Wendland,
a lay United Methodist.
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Barbara is urging church members
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to focus on today rather than yesterday, and on earthly life
rather than an unknown afterlife
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to notice how their personal lives, their churches, and
their world differ from what
Jesus advocated
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to take initiative and action to help make their personal lives,
the institutional church, and the world more like what Jesus described
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to worship God, not their personal comfort, the Bible's words, or
the institutional church
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to keep reevaluating their religious beliefs, their understanding
of God, the church's purpose, and their churches' effectiveness in carrying out
that purpose
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to revise their beliefs and their churches' methods when new
insight or information seems to make revision necessary
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to talk openly in the church about how
the gospel may apply to current issues and how the church might become more faithful and
effective.
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Do you feel like a misfit in the church, as a thinking,
questioning person? Are you "spiritually homeless"? You're not alone!
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Barbara mails Connections monthly
by U.S. mail and e-mail, to several thousand Christian laity
and clergy and some non-churchgoers. These Connections readers are in all 50 U.S. states and D.C.
and Puerto Rico, and in several other countries. They include members of more than a
dozen church denominations.
To read or download the current issue or back issues of Connections,
click here.
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She's neither a church employee nor a clergy spouse, so she's free to say
openly what they usually aren't.
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She has a theology degree, years of personal reading and study about
religion and the church, and wide involvement in the church, helping her to see
and say what many lay church members can't.
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She takes on one sacred cow after another.
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She's saying what many other laity and many clergy would like to say.
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She says it clearly in conversational language.
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Lay and ordained Connections readers say,
"Connections is inspiring, positive, challenging, insightful, informative,
clear, concise, useful, fresh, and easy to read."
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