john van sloten
@johnvs7
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Community Theologian, Writer & Rational Mystic (The Day Metallica Came to Church, Every Job a Parable, and God Speaks Science) Into God's 2 books.
Calgary
Joined November 2009
“God Speaks Science” just won a @thegospelcoalition 2023 book award! How exciting (and encouraging)! @MoodyPublishers @BioLogosOrg @SinaiSynapses @Sci4theChurch @eclasproject @templeton_fdn
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@AndyBeshearKY helping to soften my Canadian heart (just a bit). A good counter-voice for our times. #tariffs
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RT @templeton_fdn: Disagreeing is a part of life, but how we engage in these differences can shape our understanding of opposing viewpoints…
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Hold on... if I cancel Amazon Prime I get to consume less easily, binge-watch less often, AND support the Canadian economy? 🇨🇦 What an incredible deal! #amazonprime #tarriffs #CanadaUSTradeWar
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@BrianDijkema I think he's still offended by the perceived back-stabbing of Trudeau in 2018, and by Freeland's hard-nosed negotiating of the USMCA ("nasty"). Could all of this really be this petty?
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Hard to find a toilet maker in Canada. Mexican made/US owned or US made/Japanese owned, easy. But #MadeinCanada not so much. Frustrated, I had to read about #Potash - where Canada is the #1 global producer; supplying 80% of US farm fertilizer, and is (still) right next door. 🇺🇸🇨🇦
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@darren_dyck My favourite Larkin line; "The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said;"
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A bio for a talk Eddy & I are giving at a Calgary disability event in April: John Van Sloten is a community theologian and author who is writing a book about life with his son Edward. Edward Van Sloten is a community volunteer who loves drawing, swimming, and all things Disney.
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RT @JyotiGondek: A new chapter begins today for nearly 30 families as we celebrate the opening of the Killarney affordable housing developm…
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This is what I see when I pick up Eddy from his volunteer work placement every Wednesday. The best!
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I just asked Edward what HE thought I should talk about with a leading Down syndrome researcher I’m interviewing later this morning.
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Ovechkin will never "catch" Gretzky—Gretz has 1300 more assists that Ovi currently has. He will stand as the best player ever, forever (it seems). @ovi8 @EdmontonOilers
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Tripped on this 8 min clip as I was preparing for an interview with a leading Down syndrome researcher next week. Mr Stephens's 2017 plea led to an historic increase in Down syndrome funding by the NIH (with full bipartisan support!). (I wept watching it).
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Patriotically checking my labels (although I was pretty sure on this one!).
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Looks like the child model for Andrea Mantegna's (1431-1506) 'Virgin and Child' had Down syndrome—possible epicanthic folds, small nose, open mouth, prominent tongue, square hands, wide spacing between 1st & 2nd toes, and a short broad neck #Downsyndrome
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“The fool is not a flat, one-dimensional bonehead in the Bible’s wisdom literature but a well-developed and often dangerous dumb-ass with an arsenal of unsavoury qualities… a witless combination of pride, willfulness, impatience, self-absorption, presumption, and dishonesty.”
Sometimes it's helpful to explore something by looking at what it is not. I wrote a piece exploring discernment by looking at the fool.
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I keep thinking that God is moving through all the disruption—that what’s unsettling us is, in fact, waking us. I imagine a moment where our incredulity is redeemed—where it turns into astonishment at what God has done. In hope, I see a time where fear & trembling are made holy.
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Best way to start the day! As I prepare breakfast, Edward draws a picture of the two of us. #downsyndromelife
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