from theocity to lovelocity

noreply@blogger.com (Kirk Bartha) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:17:46 PST

Great lunch with PR/Marketing and IT systems architect.

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noreply@blogger.com (Kirk Bartha) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:20:53 PST

Such amazing friends... I only have a few books left with me. Getting more books shipped to each city ahead of my arrival. Still in KW.

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noreply@blogger.com (Kirk Bartha) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:52:48 PST

A great morning at WMB church sharing hearts, vision and the manifesto.

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Free PDF Preview of Clairvaux Manifesto

noreply@blogger.com (Kirk Bartha) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:54:56 PST

This pic was taken overlooking the French city of Dijon. Dar and I spent the night there, the same day we visited Clairvaux, Cluny, and Taize. At that time, I didn't know Bernard was raised in a...

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Full Measure of Devotion

noreply@blogger.com (Kirk Bartha) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:32:51 PDT

Sitting by the hot fireplace, Bach strings in the background, lights low, Bible open to II Cor. 4-6, empty ice cream bowl, half mug of tea, iPhone 3GS pamphlet, emails from an enterprise architect...

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Bees, Books, and Bono

noreply@blogger.com (Kirk Bartha) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:31:13 PDT

Last night, I went to WordFest at the Banff Centre to hear Douglas Coupland chat about his latest novel Generation A. Later, I meandered to and from a book signing line for nearly an hour. Bored out...

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Page 320 of Clairvaux Manifesto

noreply@blogger.com (Kirk Bartha) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:55:19 PDT

Have been in conversations with Friesens, our printer for the manifesto. All the proofs are signed off on. All corrections are made. And one addition was made to the very last page: Environmental...

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Clairvaux Manifesto 2

noreply@blogger.com (Kirk Bartha) — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:11:17 PDT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg72061VE1k This second video takes viewers higher up and further into the vision the manifesto calls out. The video opens with different cities and flags which are...

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Clairvaux Manifesto (HD)

noreply@blogger.com (Kirk Bartha) — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:31:31 PDT

Clairvaux Manifesto promo in HD (here).

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Clairvaux Manifesto Circle, Cross, Compass & Seal

noreply@blogger.com (Kirk Bartha) — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:43:14 PDT

I wrote the manifesto in four parts: moving from the circle to the cross to the crux of the two, and eventually into an ongoing life well-lived (spiritual cartographers engaging the splendors of God...

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Endor, Endorphins, and Endorsements

noreply@blogger.com (Kirk Bartha) — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:39:31 PDT

Reading over various endorsements friends have written for Clairvaux Manifesto, I've been thinking of the word endorse ("En" means "in"... "Dorsum" is Latin for "back"). To endorse a cheque is to...

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Clairvaux Manifesto Cover Options

noreply@blogger.com (Kirk Bartha) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:14:25 PDT

Graf-Martin Communications recently posted this: We’d like your help choosing the cover for a new book that is soon to be published. Clairvaux Manifesto invites readers to discover the pioneering...

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Confessions and Friendships

noreply@blogger.com (Kirk Bartha) — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:51:44 PDT

Throughout Augustine's conversion narrative in his Confessions, his friend Alypius was with him. At first, Alypius listened silently as Augustine cried out his agony, then followed his friend 'step...

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Circles of Quiet

noreply@blogger.com (Kirk Bartha) — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:07:40 PDT

That is a temperate and righteous love which practices self-denial in order to minister to a brother’s necessity. So our selfish love grows truly social, when it includes our neighbors in its...

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Hope...

noreply@blogger.com (Kirk Bartha) — Sun, 31 May 2009 05:04:06 PDT

Of all the quotes inscribed in the Cannongate Wall of Scottish Parliament, I made sure to remember this one: There is hope in honest error; None in the icy perfections of the mere stylist.As the...

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Endings and Beginnings

noreply@blogger.com (Kirk Bartha) — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:35:40 PDT

This pic was the desktop shot on my laptop for years. It was taken during a spiritual retreat on the West Coast of Vancouver Island during storm season (waters are relatively quiet here). With...

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Basilicas and Vernaculars

noreply@blogger.com (Kirk Bartha) — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:28:33 PDT

This pic was taken the day after Ash Wednesday, 2008... which was a Thursday ;) Joe and I sat through Angels & Demons last night... What I'll write in response is two separate paragraphs from my...

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Lost in Translation and Transylvania

noreply@blogger.com (Kirk Bartha) — Wed, 13 May 2009 13:56:49 PDT

Verum videns me longa satis hujuscemodi exspectatione frustratum, ne jam magis nolle, quam non posse viderer, tandem ego quidem quod potui feci: lector judicet, an satisfeci. Quanquam etsi cui forte...

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Morocco and Kashmir

noreply@blogger.com (Kirk Bartha) — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:38:46 PDT

Just got in from seeing Star Trek with Paul and Jared - an interesting twist on history, full of emotional character nuances and one liners from the original series, plus a romantic twist, red...

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Spring Marché

noreply@blogger.com (Kirk Bartha) — Fri, 08 May 2009 10:13:43 PDT

This evening Darlene's Global Friends are hosting a Spring Marché at the kids school. Dar sits on the parent teacher council and earlier this year launched Global Friends, bringing our kids school...

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Winter and Spring

noreply@blogger.com (Kirk Bartha) — Thu, 07 May 2009 21:53:36 PDT

This family video was taken March 27th in Cougar Creek, which flows between Lady MacDonald and Grotto mountains. Whenever I have a few hours, it's my favorite short hike around here. In this video,...

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Stone and Light

noreply@blogger.com (Kirk Bartha) — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:43:23 PDT

"It is in their aspiring arches, where rock rises as if emptied of weight; in the towers which soar like aerial hymns; in the windows, which are crimsoned as with the Lord's blood, or which glow and...

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Manifestos and Adventures

noreply@blogger.com (Kirk Bartha) — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:11:52 PDT

Well, it's been a while... During the off blogging season I wrote "Clairvaux Manifesto: a personal odyssey of prayer and work" - which may or not be a total disaster. I hope not. The book is now in...

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Circles

noreply@blogger.com (Kirk Bartha) — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:52:25 PST

Silhouettes and Shadows

noreply@blogger.com (Kirk Bartha) — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:29:36 PST

The intellectual puzzles are found in the fringes of prayer; prayer at its center is as simple and as profound as friendship. The inevitable effect of this sort of communion is that God becomes real....

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