tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41027862011-09-09T09:45:39.001-07:00Epicyclesoutdated thinking that might be about to come back into style. . .or not, but worth considering all the same. Diogenes' & Ptolemy's 21st century advocate may be reached at knapsack_at_windstream.netJeff Gillnoreply@blogger.comBlogger491100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-9734109555178828392011-03-02T07:57:00.001-08:002011-03-02T07:57:10.482-08:00Scottie Cochrane retired as Director of Libraries at Denison in January; when we caught up with her, she had just returned to her row house on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. from a lecture at the Library of Congress. (You can take the librarian out of the library, but…) 1. Describe your experience of first arriving at Doane Library. I came for my interview in early March and Granville was Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-1149806687192137922011-03-02T07:56:00.001-08:002011-03-02T07:56:38.250-08:00DenMag -- Parker LichtensteinWhat makes a “Renaissance Man”?Is it academic experience from north to south, from New England to the Pacific coast?Does literary and humanities proficiency qualify one, or is it administrative and executive capacity on display that certifies you as Renaissance-ready?Or could wartime service, from the Arctic Circle edges of the Atlantic, to the isolation of Pacific Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-89108968837522404702010-10-12T05:17:00.001-07:002010-10-18T12:46:40.776-07:00Licking County CVBVisitor’s Guide 2011* * ** * *150 Years of Echoes and Remembrance – the Civil War and Licking County [1042 words]Just as the American Civil War left its mark on the United States, you can find traces of that vast conflict all across the landscape of Licking County.No battles between armies were fought on our soil, but there were many significant encounters that took place Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-33373852092342324272010-04-16T08:53:00.000-07:002010-04-16T08:54:37.332-07:00Granville Chamber of Commerce 2010* * *Granville Poised for FutureIn a community with a rich sense of history, Granville has much to look forward to through the coming decade.2010 will see the completion of the State Route 161/16 expressway, connecting the Columbus outerbelt and airport to the very doorstep of Granville’s southern entrance. An already short drive to catch a flight to Washington Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-2193467375360444712010-04-16T08:51:00.001-07:002010-04-16T08:51:16.055-07:00Stewardship reading – short takesMichelle Singletary, “The Power To Prosper,” Zondervan If you listen to NPR or read the Washington Post, you’ve probably run into the columnist who writes “The Color of Money” and know her as a thoughtful and practical adviser for young people in general and people of color in particular on the subject of personal finance. This year, she’s chosen to gently put herJeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-17581686920451392442009-11-09T10:28:00.000-08:002009-11-09T10:29:13.826-08:00Licking County CVB -- 2010 Visitor's Guide* * *Downtown Newark – Connected By More Than StreetsIn 1801, a young man of 28 named William Schenck came to the forks of the Licking River from out of the Cincinnati area.Recently married, he had been hired by his uncle, John Cumming to survey over 4000 acres that he and some partners had purchased, sight unseen, the year before. With years of surveyingJeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-75161106101085831472009-11-09T08:46:00.000-08:002009-11-09T08:47:11.685-08:00Licking County CVB Visitor’s Guide 2010* * *Granville: Ohio’s Best Hometown!When *Ohio Magazine* went looking for a community to call one of “Ohio’s Best Hometowns,” they had to end up in Granville.Founded by New England settlers in 1805, still graced with wonderfully preserved Greek Revival architecture, yet with every modern benefit from wi-fi for sidewalk cafes to global cuisine at your table,Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-59521865858453938692009-09-10T07:36:00.001-07:002009-09-10T07:36:37.114-07:00Granville Woodhull Memorial Clock ProclamationWhereas – the Avery-Downer House has been a Granville landmark since 1842, beautifully expressing through Greek Revival architecture the ideals of education and culture so valued by the early settlers of this village; andWhereas – we honor our fellow Licking County forebearer, Victoria Claflin Woodhull, born and raised just north of us in Homer 171 Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-22586935449284265762009-08-13T19:58:00.001-07:002009-08-13T19:58:10.902-07:00Remembering Bill Laidlaw There’s one approach to history that focuses on “great men,” and a contrasting understanding that says “trends and movements” are the real hinge of historical developments. When people look back in years to come on this era for the Ohio Historical Society, they will surely see the broader influences of significant economic shifts in the state, with budget cuts defining Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-21542981627472925142009-07-08T07:41:00.000-07:002009-07-08T07:42:18.920-07:00William Gavit -- 468 word versionWilliam Gavit is justly remembered as one of the founding settlers of the village of Granville, riding one of the first three wagons into the central square in November of 1805, part of the advance party that led the group from Granville, Massachusetts, where the summer before he signed onto the association for the Licking Land Company.He was not a member of the Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-30314755203890452232009-07-03T06:55:00.000-07:002009-07-03T07:00:35.402-07:00Ancient Ohio Trail project – Visitor Experience SurveyExecutive SummaryJune 30, 2009Central to our efforts in presenting and interpreting the “Ancient Ohio Trail” are current understandings surrounding the earthworks and mounds of Ohio. When inviting cultural engagement with and promoting informed tourism around the Native American cultural structures known generally as the “Hopewell Ceremonial Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-77413231801724632032009-04-23T13:40:00.000-07:002009-04-27T05:40:36.413-07:00Granville -- Ohio’s Best Hometown 2009 final draft 4-25-09Community spiritGranville is the kind of town where spring blossoms take turns from yard to yard in coming to their full blown peak, nodding agreeably to overarching rainbows against not quite threatening skies; where the slanting summer light picks up only the most golden dust to catch the light as outdoor concerts end; where the leaves Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-13847508190448413552009-02-27T04:13:00.001-08:002009-02-27T04:13:50.439-08:00DRAFT-DRAFT-DRAFT – Lean Times/DisciplesWorld April 2009 – DRAFT-DRAFT-DRAFTThis could be the best time ever for a stewardship campaign.Sounds crazy, doesn’t it?True, this is not the best time for fund raising or asking people for money. But at risk of horrifying some of the church treasurers among us, a stewardship campaign isn’t about fund raising. No matter what you call it . . .Fall is Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-27866815843848880412009-01-30T04:59:00.000-08:002009-01-30T05:03:17.587-08:00Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon at Denison – MLK 2009“I have a particular appreciation of the work that was done in Ohio,” says Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, honored academic, award winning singer and producer, and keynote speaker for Denison University’s Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration on Monday, Jan. 26th at 1 pm.She’s looking forward to the events that will swirl around her home in Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-45032988110655886852008-11-21T20:01:00.000-08:002008-11-21T20:02:44.541-08:00LICKING COUNTY CVB Visitor Guide StoriesNOVEMBER 12, 2008Floating Worlds from the Ice Age Past CRANBERRY BOGCan an island float? Outside of fantasy novels or science fiction, that is. On the southern edge of Licking County, a five-mile long arc of water is Ohio’s oldest man-made lake, with an accidentally made marvel bobbing in its midst.Cranberry Bog is the local name for a vast mat of sphagnum Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-47560539351740144912008-11-10T19:26:00.001-08:002008-11-10T19:28:36.990-08:00Faces Around Downtown (570 wds, no weblinks, cd be eight)Coming to Newark’s historic downtown area, you might drive east down Main Street, past the Historic Row on Sixth Street, and to the entranceway framing the 1876 Courthouse, formed by the new Licking County Library and the restored century old Avalon Apartments.Or you might arrive off of Route 16 onto Fourth Street, where a gateway districtJeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-7756041189263446052008-11-05T19:44:00.000-08:002008-11-10T19:29:32.903-08:002009 Licking County Convention and Visitors Bureau Guide -- text drafts* * *Floating Worlds From the Ice Age Past (369 wds, with weblink)Can an island float?Outside of fantasy novels or science fiction, that is. . .On the southern edge of Licking County, a five mile long arc of water is Ohio’s oldest man-made lake, with an accidentally made marvel bobbing in its midst.Cranberry Bog is the local Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-66199934696872880992008-10-13T10:00:00.000-07:002008-10-13T10:02:00.651-07:00Note to self (link moved) --http://www.globalministries.org/about-us/origin-and-legacy-of-the-common.htmlhttp://www.disciples.org/MissionAlignmentCoordinatingCouncil/ModelForConversationNarrative/tabid/337/Default.aspxJeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-60287399975416362572008-08-03T16:57:00.000-07:002008-08-03T16:58:43.922-07:00Disrobed In the Public Square – Urbanscapes 2008Denison University First Year ProgramJeff GillOxford is home to the original “Town and Gown” controversy.From the 11th century roots of English college life, students were semi-monastic participants in religious life, so like monks and brothers in most monasteries, they wore robes that marked them as part of an intentional community.Even as academicJeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-21124395881082304312008-07-28T21:48:00.001-07:002008-08-03T17:06:15.516-07:00Flipping Through the Pages of Time, Slowly“I look at the geological record as a history of the world imperfectly kept…only here and there a short chapter has been preserved; and of each page, only here and there a few lines.” - Charles Darwin “On the Origin of Species” (1859)Imagine a vast book, with pages the size of Ohio, and even larger. Look at the edge of that volume, laying flat, with Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-73183392481581858452008-02-22T10:38:00.000-08:002008-02-22T10:42:30.957-08:00DenMag L&F issue* * ** * *Stuff, and the Stuff of Life [first unused draft]How would you feel if you were digging through a large crate for, say, a “major award” and didn’t find anything (not even a lamp shaped like a leg)?Then you find out later it was what you only thought was packing material, the little white peanuts, or straw, or blocks of foam, that actually had value. Ow.If DNA can be Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-35023017796988022662008-02-22T10:32:00.000-08:002008-02-22T10:38:24.114-08:00Licking County CVB Magazine 2008* * *Fragile Strength Makes Lasting Beauty – National Heisey Glass MuseumGlass is a significant part of human civilization, from over 4,000 years ago to your last look out a window today.In ancient Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq), across the Roman Empire, and for the earliest American colonists, glass making by heating and blowing and shaping the red hot fluid into aJeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-44666488691643837832007-05-01T04:39:00.000-07:002007-05-01T04:50:35.087-07:00Marking The SkyFew landmarks, or skymarks, and those mobilein the terrain of the heavens.Small, yet bright,sun & moon, stars & planets,zodiacal constellations pivotwith polished, imperceptible grace.(swath of white sweeping past by season)Marking days, and nights, and spots on the horizon,sealed with piles of earth.From mound to mound, an arc tracedonly through time, moment by moment nearly stillJeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-76734230697985685672007-01-25T12:19:00.000-08:002007-01-25T12:21:07.398-08:00Praying on AsphaltAn Introductory Handbook on Prayer-- PrayerThis side of the Garden of Eden, prayer hasn’t changed very much.The experience of praying, speaking directly to God, whether silently inside our head, out loud under pressure, or joyfully in great assemblies, is not essentially any different than it was for Abel or for Deborah, to Ruth or her great-grandson David, or between Priscilla Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-1163770846050829332006-11-17T05:39:00.000-08:002007-02-17T08:39:46.302-08:00Winter Scenes, Licking Countya six (well, it ended up being seven) part series covering a few millenia in our neighborhood* * *Notes From My Knapsack 11-19-06Jeff GillWinter Scenes, Licking County – Part OneThey had trudged step by step through the frost-clumped grass, thawing a bit during the height of the sun in the grey sky.From the wide waters and marshes running south, their path climbed up Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-1154624438403237242006-08-03T09:59:00.000-07:002007-02-22T11:47:03.623-08:00A poem for "Dissonance and Harmony" – Denison 2006 First Year Program theme(This is almost an appendix to the poem series down further at http://epicycles.blogspot.com/2004/10/public-faith-23-poems-on-stepping-back.html but doesn't work as well on the computer screen. You have to a) know Swasey Chapel, and b) be able to see the whole page at once. Print it out, if you like, for the full effect.)Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-1151762287190628882006-07-01T06:56:00.000-07:002006-07-02T16:53:35.856-07:00WLSR at 50: 1975-1985 Jeff GillWhen I first heard about this observance for 2006, I thought, "that can’t be right, because I was part of the 25th anniversary celebration, and that was . . .in 1981, which is 25 years ago. OK then. Owwww . . .To appreciate Wood Lake Scout Reservation on its 50th anniversary, I have to start my own story as a camp staff member first as a new Scout in Camp Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-1143061310723091072006-03-22T12:52:00.000-08:002006-03-22T13:01:50.733-08:00Crazy Faith – New Life skit 26 March 2006[Two people, sitting in a boat, holding fishing poles]One: This is the life!Two: Sure is.One: So how did you find this lake, anyhow?Two: This is my grandpa’s lake, actually. He knew the guy who owns the land around it, and his son still lets me have a key to the gate out on the county road. One: So you’ve been fishing here a long time?Two: Yep. WithJeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-1140745225808322852006-02-23T17:39:00.000-08:002006-02-23T17:40:25.810-08:00Proposal for Newark Earthworks Day 2006 theme statement --Newark Earthworks Day is a program intended as an expression of respect and honor for this sacred Native American place. Built 2,000 years ago by the first peoples of this continent, it is both ancient and vitally alive today.For modern visitors, we seek a renewed and wider perspective, with respect born of broader understanding, where Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-1140745067855629462006-02-23T17:36:00.000-08:002006-02-23T17:37:47.866-08:00For Winter 2006 Denison Magazine "Uncommon Grounds" --When Brad Lepper called Tod Frolking of Dension’s Geology Department, he was looking for help in a hurry.As curator of archaeology at the Ohio Historical Society and a regular teacher on campus for the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Lepper had been called to an excavation site on a Licking County golf course. What began as a new Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-1139893564182141692006-02-13T21:01:00.000-08:002006-02-13T21:30:14.103-08:00DenMag – Burning Tree MastodonTen miles southeast of Denison, in December of 1989, a dragline operator digging a new water hazard for a Licking County golf course suddenly saw a giant skull looking up at him out of the muck.A check with the property owner led to a call to Dr. Brad Lepper, curator of archaeology at the Ohio Historical Society and a regular teacher on campus for the Department of Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-1136913597942814992006-01-10T09:18:00.000-08:002006-01-10T09:19:57.953-08:00So Why Haven’t You Ended Homelessness Yet?Rev. Jeff GillLicking Co. Coalition for Housing board presidentIn 1991 a group of folks with various involvements in helping the homeless got together. Some of us were with non-profits, others in agencies, and a few of us came out of a faith community angle.All of us had experience trying to help people in Licking County whose lives had hit a crisis of Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-1136472821435534352006-01-05T06:52:00.000-08:002006-01-05T06:53:41.443-08:00Being Disciples, GenerallyA response to:http://homepage.mac.com/madcck/myblog/C942134880/E20051219214033/index.htmlMichael Davison has issued a call for "Restructure" for the general manifestation of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). He asks that the decision makers and vision shapers of the general church boards and structures not start a new paragraph in revising how we are church on Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-1136472675776645832006-01-05T06:46:00.000-08:002006-01-05T06:51:15.783-08:00Being Buckeye Disciples -- final post of document!* * * * * * *Appendix[Due to budget, format, and various other unexplained changes in the proposed volume, "Ohio Religious Experience 1803-2003," what OU Press published as the book "Religion in Ohio" included about half of this for our denominational chapter, with assorted additions and edits for format consistency contributed by Dennis Sparks. Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-1136472362741761442006-01-05T06:44:00.000-08:002006-01-05T06:46:02.750-08:00Being Buckeye Disciples post 4(Part numbers in the document are from the original full text)Part Three -- Some Consequences"Christ has risen." Whoever believes thatShould not behave as we do,Who have lost the up, the down, the right, the left, heavens, abysses,And try somehow to muddle on, in cars, in beds,Men clutching at women, women clutching at men,Falling, rising, putting coffee on the Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-1136472212891820652006-01-05T06:41:00.000-08:002006-01-05T06:43:32.900-08:00Being Buckeye Disciples post 3(the Part 2 is in the original 15 page .doc)Part Two -- A Rant(From the last two paragraphs of the book:)Five hundred churches, many schools and colleges, missionary and benevolent agencies, and a voluminous literary heritage have been bequeathed to next century Disciples . . .The second century of Ohio Disciples’ history should be more glorious than the last. Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-1136471641886455332006-01-05T06:32:00.000-08:002006-01-05T06:40:57.130-08:00Being Buckeye Disciples pt. 2So how’d we get here? The following historical narrative is an informal organizational and evolutionary gloss on the more formal version found at the end of the document. It tends to focus on the Ohio and Anglo-European stream of development and does not pretend to be a normative description of even every early experience of Restoration origins and growth. Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-1136428778506681742006-01-04T18:38:00.000-08:002006-01-05T06:37:33.463-08:00Being Buckeye Disciples, or A Reminiscence, A Rant, Some Consequences, and A ConclusionPrologue "It’s not about you." Rick Warren opens his best-selling "The Purpose-Driven Life" with these words, which I would heartily echo to our Futuring Task Force as to the Christian Church in Ohio. "It’s not about us." We are called into existence by God to share the Good News of freely givenJeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-1134448808479301212005-12-12T20:37:00.000-08:002005-12-12T20:40:08.496-08:00What I Saw At the MoonriseJeff GillWhen the moon finally came out from behind a band of cloud, glowing bright orange both dimmer yet more distinct than the lights of Newark spread out below, I was watching my son. He had been dashing from point to point, and I wanted to make sure he didn’t bump the photographer from the Advocate, when a person right in front of me said softly but clearly, "There Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-1130943237089586162005-11-02T06:50:00.000-08:002005-11-02T06:53:57.110-08:00Constructing a Faith at Work(& Building Small Groups) - - -Working among Carpenters, Gardeners, and Sweepers in the Gospels* * *Introduction (for reading to the group; leader’s notes at end)Jesus used parables to teach the Good News of God’s love, or "gospel" message (an old word for "good news"). When we gather as Christians to reflect on God’s word in the four books we call "Gospels,"Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-1130535689232753862005-10-28T14:40:00.000-07:002005-10-28T14:41:29.246-07:00Preservation and Parks: A Historical PerspectiveThe story of how Octagon State Memorial is occupied by a golf course is tied to the developing story of preservation in the United States. The idea of "state parks" or "national parks" whether for natural areas or historic sites is only about a century old, but the history of local preservation at Newark goes back even further. Leaders like IsraelJeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-1117170154193794942005-05-26T22:02:00.000-07:002005-05-26T22:02:34.200-07:00Denison Magazine Summer 2005“A Christian College of Liberal Arts”Jeff GillFrom a distance, the first view of Denison an arriving student and family get is of the chapel spire rising above the trees on the top of the hill.Closer up, their first sight of a piece of campus close enough to touch is the brick and stone entrance where Granville’s Main St. crosses College St. and becomes President’s Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-1113513768942252322005-04-14T14:22:00.000-07:002005-04-14T14:22:48.943-07:00Events at Disciples Village, 14 Apr 2105(Press Release courtesy Disciples Future Service, embargoed to 15 Apr 2105, Noon EST)(DFS) Robin Run Cryofacility & Disciples Village Historic SiteSpring is always an exciting time for the costumed interpreters at Disciples Village, an interpretive site operated by the Indiana State Museum and Robin Run Cryonics.With men in "neck-ties" and women in period "Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-1107920893263773032005-02-08T19:43:00.000-08:002005-02-08T19:48:13.263-08:00This is the *original* draft of the chapter that appeared in the Ohio Bicentennial "Religion in Ohio" volume from Ohio University Press in revised form under the heading "Jeff Gill and Dennis Sparks." When the fourth re-edit asked me to change Scots-Irish to "Scotch-Irish" as the print version reads, and retract that Garfield was the only ordained minister elected president of the United States Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-1095965660719969942004-10-04T11:53:00.000-07:002004-10-19T13:11:36.270-07:00A Public Faith
23 poems on stepping back from ministry
by Jeff Gill
* * * * * * *
Bibles piled high
Green cloth bound and worn, an RSV
given at fourth grade graduation
from my Sunday school teacher,
before the congregation.
Frayed along the sweat-marked binding,
held at hundreds of funerals and weddings,
all unimagined when presented.
A map of Jerusalem in the back,
with faint lines tracing Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-1074224956254613792004-01-15T19:49:00.000-08:002004-01-15T19:51:08.186-08:002005 Newark Earthworks Moonrise Working Group
Mission Statement
The purpose of the 2005 Newark Earthworks Moonrise Working Group is
twofold:
1. We will join together at the Octagon Earthworks to witness this
once in a generation event and help make that experience accesible to
as wide an audience as possible;
2. We will use this event to celebrate the achievements of the
builders of Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-1072298787709597402003-12-24T12:46:00.000-08:002003-12-24T12:47:50.293-08:00An Inkling
A gleam as through a window seen
Shimmering, shining, dimly lighting
Sill or frame beneath the flame;
One pool of light against the night
Viewed afar, this earthbound star
Grounded in a niche ‘tween hill and ditch
Implies, beneath the lowering skies,
A room behind, a place of warmth to find
For travelers tired, the last miles inspired
Toward a house unseen. All inferred from just oneJeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-1061921321613075242003-08-26T11:08:00.000-07:002003-08-26T11:08:41.683-07:00Being Buckeye Disciples, or
A Reminiscence, A Rant, Some Consequences, and A Conclusion
Prologue
“It’s not about you.”
Rick Warren opens his best-selling “The Purpose-Driven Life” with these words, which I would heartily echo to our Futuring Task Force as to the Christian Church in Ohio.
“It’s not about us.”
We are called into existence by God to share the Good News of Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102786.post-873713822003-01-13T13:27:00.000-08:002006-01-31T08:53:04.223-08:00This site usually is my own original content, but this article so strongly resonates with the work of meaningful, effective assistance to families in areas like Licking County, Ohio, that i just had to reproduce it in full. Yes, it is long, but read it anyhow if you can.-- pax, jbg* * * * * * Marriage and Caste Kay S. Hymowitz America’s chief source of inequality? The Marriage Gap. http://Jeff Gillnoreply@blogger.com