Category Archives: About Tom

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Of Karen, Who Accepts Me, As I Am

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Tom Bolton

In forty-five years, she has rolled her eyes  And then accepted me, How many times? In all the times I failed and was lost, She found me and led me back, How many times? In the evenings when we were … Continue reading →

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Posted on May 29, 2012 by Tom Bolton

Originally posted on John Meunier:
Moralistic Therapeutic Deism may very well be the default religion of most mainline Protestants. I first encountered the term reading Kenda Creasy Dean‘s book Almost Christian. Dean borrowed the term from the work other others,…

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Posted on April 22, 2012 by Tom Bolton

Originally posted on Let's Talk Gospel:
On April 22, more than one billion people around the globe will take part in Earth Day 2012 and help Mobilize the Earth™. People of all nationalities and backgrounds will voice their appreciation…

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Posted on April 3, 2012 by Tom Bolton

Originally posted on enMissioned:
O God, who by the passion of thy blessed Son didst make an instrument of shameful death be unto us the means of life: Grant us so to glory in the cross of Christ, that we…

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Starlight Mints

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Tom Bolton

No. 10 Peppermint candy, Lovely Taste, Delicious beauty, A peripatetic dancer, Skipping,                     Hopping, Whirling around and around and around and Tickling my senses, Forcing lust, Casting blue-green shadows and Mighty images. i l – o – v – e Peppermint … Continue reading →

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Echoing Passover in This Worship

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Tom Bolton

In 2009, discussing the Last Supper during Lent with our Confirmands, it was clear that none of them knew on that day the stories of Exodus. In order to help remedy that condition with our youth (and adults), these past … Continue reading →

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John Wesley on Prayer

Posted on March 24, 2012 by Tom Bolton

I’ve been reading from a little book I found on eBay a few weeks ago:  How to Pray:  The Best of John Wesley on Prayer (Uhrichville, OH:  Barbour Publishing, 2007), and it has some wonderful excerpts from Wesley’s sermons on … Continue reading →

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