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Continue reading →: Enacting Race Reconciliation for an Eternal Impact
By Joe LaGuardia Last week, I published an article on the importance of collaboration. This week’s article is on collaboration of a different kind: Working together in a culture of distrust. We start with the facts. Rockdale County has experienced a major demographic shift in the last ten years. If…
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Continue reading →: Church is a Collaborative Project
By Joe LaGuardia Christianity is a collaborative faith. In a letter to churches in Corinth, the apostle Paul confronted several congregations that were arguing with each other. No two churches were alike and each one served a purpose in the Body of Christ. In 1 Corinthians 12:27, he wrote, “All of you together are Christ’s…
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Continue reading →: 28 Thoughts at 28 Years of Age
By Emily Holladay Each year, I become more and more sentimental about birthdays. At first, birthdays were just days to celebrate a new milestone – one year closer to driving, adulthood, college, being “legal,” graduating, etc., etc., etc. Now (and with the dawn of Facebook), birthdays are days to reflect…
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Continue reading →: Giving the Invitation
Joe LaGuardia’s new book, Awe and Trembling: Reflections for the Christian Journey, is scheduled to be released in late May. As an anthology of articles and homilies from the Baptist Spirituality archives, the book encourages, inspires, and deepens a life of faith and our pilgrimage with God. This article, originally released in 2013,…
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Continue reading →: CBF joins Baptists worldwide in support for people of Nepal
CBFblog April 27, 2015 By Aaron Weaver DECATUR, Ga. — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is partnering with a network of Baptist groups from around the world to provide aid to the victims of the recent earthquake in Nepal, which has killed more than 4,000 people, injured thousands more and left the…
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Continue reading →: The Spiritual Art of Delegation
By Joe LaGuardia In Exodus 18, shortly after God liberated Israel from Egypt and led them into the desert of Sinai, we find leader Moses contending with all of the conflicts and concerns that these new pilgrims faced. There were disputes over limited resources, complaints about living conditions, and doubt…
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Continue reading →: Celebrating the Risen Savior
By Joe LaGuardia Religion has been in the news lately. ISIS is marching across the Middle East decimating thousands of lives while recruiting thousands a day. A religious liberty law in Indiana recently clogged the news cycle. An HBO documentary scrutinized the church of Scientology, if that can be considered a…
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Continue reading →: Seven Spiritual Disciplines for Good Friday
By Joe LaGuardia For many, Good Friday is as much a part of Holy Week as Easter or Palm Sunday. For others, Good Friday has never been a part of the worship routine. There is some truth to the notion that Holy Week is not complete without some acknowledgement of…
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Continue reading →: Take up your cross: A Holy Week blog to feed the soul
Appropriate words for Holy Week from our friends at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship… CBFblog The Transforming Center is a community of Christian men and women focused on transforming Christian leaders so that churches and communities of faith can become places of authentic spiritual formation and transformation. Through retreats, events and…
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Rev. Dr. Joe LaGuardia
Rev. Dr. Joe LaGuardia is a pastor, writer, and chaplain residing in Florida. He is author of three books and regular contributor to Smyth & Helwys’ Formations Series. His articles have appeared in USA Today, Baptist News Global, Christian Ethics Today, TCPalm, and Rockdale Citizen.
Baptist Spirituality explores the intersection of faith and culture incorporating biblical scholarship, culture and the arts, politics, science, and theology.
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