Pamela Dolan

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I See You've Called in Dead

by John Kenney

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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

by Annie Dillard

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Liturgies for Resisting Empire: Seeking Community, Belonging, and Peace in a Dehumanizing World

by Kat Armas

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Pamela’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Holy Currencies: Six Blessings for Sustainable Missional Ministries

Holy Currencies: Six Blessings for Sustainable Missional Ministries by Eric H.F. Law

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Reggie McNeal, in his book Missonal Renaissance, described three shifts that need to happen for churches to be missional. 1. From an internal to an external focus 2. From program development to people development 3. From church-based to ...more

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Pamela’s Quotes

“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.”
― Frederick Buechner, Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith

tags: beauty, courage, fear

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“There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient”
― Marilynne Robinson

tags: mindfulness, suicide

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“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: love

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“A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]. It “consents,” so to speak, to [God's] creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree”
― Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation

tags: acceptance

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