GRACE BETWEEN THE
LINES
A WEEKLY DIGEST OF READINGS & REFLECTIONS ON GRACE IN LIFE
by John Hay, Jr.
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daily Bikehiker blog @ http://bikehiker.blogspot.com
Peace & Holiness blog @ http://peaceandholiness.blogspot.com
My Letters to
the President of the United States @ http://www.geocities.com/bikehiker/president.html
FROM THIS WEEK’S GRACE BETWEEN THE
LINES
WHAT’S IT MEAN TO BE HOLY?
"Being holy, becoming and being a saint, does not mean
being perfect but being whole; it does not mean being exceptionally religious,
or being religious at all. It means being liberated from religiosity and
religious pietism of any sort. It does not mean being godly, but rather being
truly human. It does not mean being otherworldly, but it means being deeply implicated in the practical
existence of this world without succumbing to this world or any aspect of this
world, no matter how beguiling." (Read this week’s GRACE BETWEEN THE LINES)
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CURRENT EDITIONS
OF GRACE BETWEEN THE LINES
JUNE 2009
Week of June 7, 2009: “Happy Pentecost!”; What’s
It Mean to be Holy?; Pentecost: End & Beginning; Is Christianity Practical?
MAY 2009
Week of May 31, 2009: Capacity, Audacity…and Grace; Beyond Hate Speech; What Can I
Believe?
Week of May 17, 2009: “In Flanders Fields”
and Selling Poppies;
Memorial Day: What Do We Honor?; Talking Affordable Health Care; A Blessing for Your Summer
Week of May 10, 2009: I Am One in the Middle; Dispel Disappointment; Resisting or
Embracing Change; A Sacramental Use of Money
Week of May 3, 2009: Is Peace Ever Possible?; The
Anatomy of Peace: Two Snippets;
Books on Peace and Nonviolence;
Real People: Nine Brief Observations
APRIL 2009
Week of April 26, 2009: The Wonder of Our
Loved Ones; To Love the World; Are Evangelicals Environmentalists?; 10 Ways to Love the Earth; Purity’s Time Is Always
Now
Week of April 12, 2009: After
Easter; Present Risenness;
Living Free from Death’s Reign; Practicing Resurrection; Active Waiting
MARCH 2009
Week of March 15, 2009: Be a Transformer; Taking Sustainability
Seriously; Good Conversations; A
High-Yield Investment: Urban Neighborhoods; A Peculiar Blessing
Week of March 8, 2009: Beyond the Threshold; Awakenings; Your Love Broke Through;
FEBRUARY 2009
Week of February 22, 2009: Launching
Into Lent;
Take Up Your Cross.
Ready? Really?; Death
March?; Wrestling Life from
Despair; A Peculiar Blessing
Week of February 15, 2009: Look Forward; A Free (If Biased) Press; Exxon Ads: Truth or Fiction?; My Letters to the President of the
Week of February 8, 2009: Economics As If People Mattered; A Fundamental Change; Home Economics: Creating A Sustainable Economy
Week of February 1, 2009: The Gift of Peace; Timothy L. Smith on Peace; 4 Books on Practical Peacemaking &
Nonviolence; Relatedness
JANUARY 2009
Week of January 25, 2009: Go; My Urban Manifesto: An Incomplete First
Draft; City Without a Church; The Courage to Make Something New
Week of January 18, 2009: A Prayer for Change; King: A Better Image of a
Pastor; Hospitality, Children, and
Parenting; An Inauguration to Remember.
Week of January 11, 2009: Three Snow Poems; Wouldn’t It Be Nice; The Gift of Sacrifice; The Corner We’ve Turned
Week of January 4, 2009: Not So Wise, Maybe?; To Epiphany…and Beyond!; The Wise Men by G. K. Chesterton; The Last to Arrive; What Do You Bring?
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PEACE &
HOLINESS BLOG
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ecclesiastical and theological tradition known as “holiness” historically
and currently intersect with peacemaking?
What are the possibilities?
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MY LETTERS TO
THE PRESIDENT
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President of the
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BICYCLE INDIA
2007
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2,000-mile bike ride through
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LIVING THE 12
DAYS OF CHRISTMAS
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reflections for each of the twelve days from Christmas to Epiphany.
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THE TdF FOR THE REST OF US
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quizzes, etc.
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