Chris McAlilly

I'm a pastor in a college town, a podcast host, and director of an internship program focused on life, faith, and work.

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The college kids show up for Ash Wednesday, one of the most odd and ancient liturgies of the year. @winfieldbevins helps us think about why they go in for ashes and dust.

We need to be drawn out of ourselves into a more ancient and beautiful way of life.

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Winfield is an author, artist, pastor and church planter who sees younger generations looking for something deeper, and they’re diving into liturgical traditions of the Church.

Listen wherever you get podcasts or at https://t.co/fRkOoR7opt.

#theweightpod #ancientfuture

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If you want to pray,
you need God,
who gives prayer to one who prays.

Evagrius of Pontus, On Prayer, 59 (Philokalia I, 181)

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Hope

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Covenant is the redemption of solitude.

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

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Christianity gets off the ground because “something happened.” God raised Christ from the dead. Faith gets off the ground because “something happened to me.”God raised me to hope.

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@DaleMCoulter @JasonEVickers Jesus is Lord.

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@DaleMCoulter @JasonEVickers I recognize the quadrilateral has fallen out of fashion as an epistemology favoring me and my experience. But, go read LTJ's The Writings of the NT. I don't see how we do w/o the category. The subj exp of risen Lord IS this animating event leading to new ways of praying/thought.

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Travel is fatal to prejudice,
bigotry, and narrow-mindedness,
and many of our people need it sorely
on these accounts.
Broad, wholesome, charitable views
of men and things cannot be acquired
by vegetating in one little corner of the earth
all one's lifetime.

- Mark Twain

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I believe there is no liturgy in the world,
either in ancient or modern language,
which breathes more
of a solid, scriptural, rational Piety,
than the Common Prayer of the Church of England.

- John Wesley

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If you liked this thread, you'll love @TheWeight_Pod. We're inspired by Mars Hill, rooted in the rich cultural ecosystem of Mississippi, and cultivating a new conversation at the intersection of faith and culture.

Starting a new season! Give us a follow.

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One of the flagship institutions in the conversation about faith and culture in America over the past two decades has been Mars Hill Audio.

Here's how they define what they mean by “culture”:

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That's how Mars Hill Audio thinks about "culture."