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Welcome to another phase of the rEvolution

So...a visual tweak does not a website or blog make. We've launched The Conversation Lab in hopes that the internet reader will find food for thought in our explorations of faith and culture.

So, what does that mean for rEvolution?

Well, after much thought...this will be a place where we talk about leadership. A place where we talk about innovation and progress in our efforts to reach culture with the Gospel of Christ. A place where we share stories of struggle and triumph. A place where people can identify together about what it means to do ministry in today's climate.

It is a place for seekers and leaders.

So, again...welcome back to rEvolution. I hope ministry will never be the same for any of us.

~Bo Liles

Ch-ch-ch-changes

Friends,

So we are doing new and exciting things on the website The Conversation Lab and I want to invite all of you over there for conversation and essays on faith and culture.

As far as this blog goes...I am not sure what direction we will take it. Part of me thinks we will make this page more geared towards examining culture. Whatever we do, please check the Lab site...we are trying to become better writers, thinkers, and believers through conversation.

Stay tuned,

Bo Liles

Reflection?

well here it is the feast of stephen and i find myself wondering what just happened. with so many events and parties and preparation leading up to Christmas it seems like just a blur. then, as i drove to work this morning passing scores of workers at a new apartment complex being built i thought... has any one, have i taken any time at all to reflect on this season, what it meant and means? here everyone is already back to their everyday lives of repetitive motions and what is there to show for all the commotion of the past few days? debt, exhaustion, guilt, kind words and deeds left unsaid and undone, family tensions, &c. did anyone have a truly 'silent, holy night'? was anyone sleeping in 'heavenly peace'? was i? was my family? were you?

Christmas eve C and i caught a bit of a show on pbs about Christmas traditions around the world. we watched as large families gathered and children got candy and not much else. Christmas night we watched some old family videos of Christmas' past, of J and i opening candy and coloring books and being overjoyed. simple pleasures... family, fires, sledding (of course there's not much chance of that here), and hot chocolate. maybe i just miss my innocent youthful days, maybe i am afraid W's youth will not be so innocent with the simplest of toys these days coming complete with 'flashing lights' & 'realistic sounds' & everyone jockeying for position as 'giver of the gift W likes the most'. not that i'm ungrateful. he got many wonderful things that he will enjoy for a long time.

it just feels like something is missing. simple things like family, friends, true joy, peace, and thanksgiving to the giver of all good gifts. maybe that's why someone saw fit to establish epiphany... after all the noise and lights another chance to reflect and remember and be thankful for life itself. may the 12th day of Christmas find us all embracing the Light of the World, the Light of Men.

addendum

i feel i would be remiss if i should fail to point out something about my earlier post 'God the incomparable'.

i used the notion of large amounts of $ to illustrate my point as simply as possible. i see now that it was too simplistic and prone to weakness. just because i or you can't comprehend $1 trillion doesn't mean it's incomprehensible. let me further my actual point by saying that even if i was somehow able to live from this point onward to infinity and i did nothing but write numbers down in sequence starting with 0 i still would never reach true infinity... no matter how 'large' my numbers became they would never even approach infinity. comprehend that... certainly harder, but what about an actual being that IS infinite? i dare say you can't. we can discuss, we can lay down logical reasons why such a being exists, (and in fact, must exist in order for any finite thing to have existence.) but we can never begin to comprehend. what can you compare the infinite too? only the finite which is a reduction of the infinite can be lifted as a comparison, so our understanding is necessarily finite and always will be. (ad infinitum. ha ha)

there are some other points, but i think i shall make them later when i can lend my full attentions.