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Guest post by Thomas Turner who writes over at Everyday Liturgy

January: 10 Everyday Spiritual Resolutions Here are ten great ideas to kick off your new year in a way that you are growing in your spiritual life.

February: Postmodern Apologetics: A Return to the Source(s) I believe that a post-modern apologetics necessitates a return to the source(s) of apologetics in the Anglo-American tradition in which we frame our discussion today.

March: The Importance of Silence Why silence is so important to worship, and prayer is sometimes what we don’t say.

April: Finally, Prayer Beads! The chronicle of my prayer bead making journey.

May: Why I Don’t Like Projectors The many consequences of projecting words onto a screen…

June: High Priced Oil, A Struggling Economy, and Spirituality A discussion on how the economy affects our spirituality and the call for Christians to be prophetic against economic injustice.

July: Art In the Liturgy: The Recovery of Narrative A conversation on how the liturgy draws individuals out of a personal, individualized religious framework of legalism and dogmatic fundamentals and into a communal story.

August: One Year Later: Thoughts on the Books of the Bible I was asked by the publishers of The Books of the Bible to comment on how I use their version of the Bible without chapters, verses numbers, or notes.

September: What To Do With Liturgical Conversions Trying to figure out what to do if you suddenly realize you love chanting…

October: What To Do With Blue Parakeets? My review of Scot McKnight’s latest book Blue Parakeet.

November: Liturgy In the Local Community: The Centrality of the Word A discussion of how Christ as the paradoxical Word fits into worship in this, the fifth and final post in the “Liturgy In The Local Community” series.

December: Advent Poem Day 5: The Journey of the Shepherds What the Magi’s trip would be like today.

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Thomas Turner is a Senior Research Associate at one of the big four accounting firms.  He is completing his MA in English at Rutgers University and writes at Everyday Liturgy.  Thomas and his wife Sarah are active at The Plant, a missional community cultivating love, truth, and compassion in Allendale, New Jersey.  To read some of Thomas’s academic work or for more information go to thomturner.com.

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