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Hello all:

Today kicks off the 2006 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. This is one of those “denominati0nal” things so we in Churches of Christ haven’t been very involved with this.

However, I think that this is a good cause, and its not bad just because our religous friends partake in a week of prayer as well.

I plan on trying to pray every day this week for Christian unity, but especially for unity within our own movement. This being the 100 year anniversary of the split, I think it is especially meaningful this year.

You can find more information about the week of prayer from Disciples News Service, the official news services of the Disciples of Christ.

-Clarke

Hello all:

A small group of us went to see the Pepperdine University basketball team play against the evil University of Portland.

It was a good game, we all got Pepperdine t-shirts, and we ran into some people that I knew from different congregations that I have attended over the years. It was alot of fun.

The game went into overtime, tied 72-72 at the end of the second half. Pepperdine played hard and was definatly the superior team, but every time Pepperdine pulled ahead of U of P, the refs called a foul. The final foul count ended up being a whopping 33 fouls by Pepperdine and 17 by U of P…. except that there were about 20 or 30 fouls and several jump balls against U of P that should have been called but were blatently overlooked by the refs. The officiating was absolutely horrible. I think the refs might have all had rosary beads in their pockets…

All together though, a good game, very exciting, especially during overtime. Unfortuantly, U of P won over Pepperdine, 84 to 82.

Maybe next time. Pepperdine’s womens team plays U of P next month.

-Clarke

Hello all:

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Also…… we have reached post #100. Thats awesome.

Make sure you read the post below.

-Clarke

Hello all:

I am currently reading The Gospel Advocate’s January 2006 edition.

I was excited when I opened up the mailbox and saw “The 1906 Division” on the front cover of the magazine. However, my excitment soon turned to disappointment as I opened it up and read the editorial by Neil W. Anderson entitled “Unity, good or bad?” I was especially surprised that Anderson stated that unity with the Independent Christian Churches would be to return “to the bonadge of human creeds by merging with thsoe who do not share in the precious faith of the scriptures.” WOW.

Statements like Anderson’s, with all due respect to him, show a lack of understanding of what divides us. The last time I checked, the Independents were less creedal than we are… we are the ones who published “A Christian Affirmation, 2005,” and not they….

I guess I should say that the stance that they have taken doesn’t totally surprise me, but I was hoping that if they tackled this issue at all this year that they would take a slightly more balanced approach and not just call the return to unity an evil thing. I expect writing like this from the Firm Foundation, not the Gospel Advocate.

I think I might just have to write a letter to the editor on this one.

-Clarke