{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1","title":"Stephen Braunius","home_page_url":"https://stephen.braunius.org","feed_url":"https://stephen.braunius.org/json/","description":"<p>Seek | Do | Share</p><p>I have always loved to learn new things and put that knowledge to use. 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1850: log church joined the Reformed Church in America\n- 1857: Christian Reformed Church founded out of this church out of division with the Reformed Church\n- More division: language, schools (christian or public), songs (scripture or hymns), closed or open sacraments, masonic lodge controversy\n- 1882: Riotous disturbance in the church, majority voted to leave Reformed Church\n- small group that left sued the church\n- Reconciliation happened where the church re-joined the Reformed Church\n- things don’t have to stay separated, things don’t have to be broken\n- we see that things are not right in this world\n- what would happen if people took seriously reconciliation when it is up close and personal?\n- Book: “<a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Reconciling-All-Things-Christian-Reconciliation/dp/0830834516\">Reconciling All Things</a>“\n- Look at the wounds that are personal and bringing reconciliation to those as a step toward global reconciliation\n- begin to partner with those who were seen as enemies\n- 2012: Pillar became a “dual-affiliation” church\n- “your axe handles will become baptismal fonts”\n- what symbolizes separation that can now symbolize something that gives life?</p><p><em>Categories: Learning · Tags: tedxmac2015 · Originally published on stephen.braunius.org</em></p>","content_text":"Chris DeVos Jonathon Brown- Pillar Church (Christian Reformed Church & Reformed Church)\n- look for stories of reconciliation right on our front doorsteps\n- 1847: church was connected to the community and community to the church “log church”\n- 1850: log church joined the Reformed Church in America\n- 1857: Christian Reformed Church founded out of this church out of division with the Reformed Church\n- More division: language, schools (christian or public), songs (scripture or hymns), closed or open sacraments, masonic lodge controversy\n- 1882: Riotous disturbance in the church, majority voted to leave Reformed Church\n- small group that left sued the church\n- 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