Contemplative in the Mud

Evangelical Holiness in the Ordinary

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Benjamin Embley

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Father VoillaumeThe imitation of our Lord in Nazareth… involves  the conviction that the evangelical holiness proper to a child of God is possible in the ordinary circumstances of a man who is poor and obliged to work for his living.
René Voillaume LBJ (1905–2003)

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Benjamin Embley

With backgrounds in engineering (BSc PhD) and philosophy (MA), Ben has lived and worked in England, France, and Thailand and is now back home as a settler in the unceded traditional territory of the Wabanaki peoples in Canada. He is a Laudato Si’ Animator and currently studying an MTS Peace & Justice in Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.

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    sandyfaithking

    Yes, absolutely. Also the conviction that God uses ordinary people – He doesn’t wait for the ‘special’ ones.

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