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IndyBikehiker: Activism and Grace
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Bicycle riding. Indianapolis loving. Community encouraging. Grace exploring. Tuesday, June 2, 2015. Excerpts from Thomas Merton’s letter to peace activist Jim Forest. Thomas Merton at the Gethsemane. Trappist monastery in Kentucky. That strike me as particularly poignant and worthy of contemplation. Jim Forest today. His work as an advocate for international. Peace has continued throughout his life. 8220; Do not depend on the hope of results. When you are doing the sort of work you have taken on, essenti...
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IndyBikehiker: At Peace with Death, Making Peace with Life
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Bicycle riding. Indianapolis loving. Community encouraging. Grace exploring. Saturday, July 25, 2015. At Peace with Death, Making Peace with Life. Asked to share the graveside commital for my 86-year old Aunt Jean Hyden Sheffield today, I found and read to family and friends gathered at South Mound Cemetery in New Castle, Indiana, the following snippet from 'Tuesdays With Morrie' by Mitch Albom:. Emery Sheffield is my mother's brother. He, 89, and Jean, 86, have lived in. That's what we are all looking f...
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IndyBikehiker: Reclaim Memorial Day from Militarism
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Bicycle riding. Indianapolis loving. Community encouraging. Grace exploring. Monday, May 23, 2016. Reclaim Memorial Day from Militarism. The shift from honoring our war dead to ogling death machinery and lusting after militarism is subtle but powerful. My post has been published as a "Letter to the Editor" in the Indianapolis Star. Around Memorial Day in 2005, 2008, and 2012]. The National Medal of Honor Memorial in Indianapolis. Of all places, the praise of militarism is included and embedded in officia...
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IndyBikehiker: Pentecost
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Bicycle riding. Indianapolis loving. Community encouraging. Grace exploring. Saturday, May 23, 2015. My poem for the celebration of Christian Pentecost. Ow shall we celebrate. This occasion called Pentecost,. When the Holy Spirit poured out. Shall we decorate it. With props and pageants. And trinkets and trivia? Shall we pine for the past,. Longing to have experienced. Shall we yearn for tomorrow,. Shall we sing ourselves into. A frenzy and call our delirium. Shall we preach Holy Spirit. With open hearts,.
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Follow our ride right here - Tour de Fairness
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About Tour de Fairness. Follow our ride right here. April 3, 2014. 206 by John Franklin Hay. This photo is one of hundreds of blog pics from the 2000-mile ride I participated in India in 2007. In 2012, I led a 600-mile fundraising ride through Kenya. I hope you’ll follow this American adventure with us. We hope you will subscribe and check back often. And, please, tell others about our effort–it encourages us as we ride and we like to correspond from the road during our stops. April 6, 2014 at 1:18 am.
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IndyBikehiker: The Wonder of Our Loved Ones
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Bicycle riding. Indianapolis loving. Community encouraging. Grace exploring. Friday, April 13, 2012. The Wonder of Our Loved Ones. We must strain to see, nurture and celebrate the wonder we experience in our loved ones. Thinking of our family, with its particularities and peculiarities, with each one's uniqueness and struggles and possibilities, with the dynamic of life that we share- gathering and scattering, coming and going, I penned the following in gratitude. Loved ones deserve our effort. Or do not...
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Tour Blog - Tour de Fairness
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About Tour de Fairness. Follow our ride right here. April 3, 2014. 206 by John Franklin Hay. This photo is one of hundreds of blog pics from the 2000-mile ride I participated in India in 2007. In 2012, I led a 600-mile fundraising ride through Kenya. I hope you’ll follow this American adventure with us. We hope you will subscribe and check back often. And, please, tell others about our effort–it encourages us as we ride and we like to correspond from the road during our stops. About Tour de Fairness.
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IndyBikehiker: Planning to Ride the Great Allegheny Passage
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Bicycle riding. Indianapolis loving. Community encouraging. Grace exploring. Wednesday, July 8, 2015. Planning to Ride the Great Allegheny Passage. Though I've ridden a bike through India, Vietnam, and Kenya, this takes me closer to my roots. Trails in Indiana, like this corn-lined one in Indianapolis,. Will yield to hilly vistas and misty valleys when we head. Out on the Great Allegheny Passage and C&O Canal. Several things about this ride, slated for August 10 through 16, compel me. Know and have never.
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IndyBikehiker: Moving Toward Community
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Bicycle riding. Indianapolis loving. Community encouraging. Grace exploring. Friday, April 17, 2015. More than a place, community is a way of relating, caring, belonging, seeing. Whether my daily work has been primarily from within the church or through a community-based organization or initiative directly serving urban neighbors, the movement is the same:. Community is the way and the purpose. Community is both the promise of the authentic church and the. The following list certainly isn't exhaustive, b...