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Resurrection in Argentina

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:25:44 -0400

Resurrection in Argentina: In the early years of this century, something amazing was happening in Argentina. Due to a massive downturn in their economy, many businesses were going bankrupt threatening the livelihood of…

Ordinary Person Makes a Difference

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:26:48 -0400

Ordinary Person Makes a Difference: My friend Helen Mildenhall, blogmaster for Off The Map and self-described “almost Atheist”, posted this over on her blog (Conversation at the Edge), so I’m of course stealing most of it and…

Ordinary people who make a difference

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:05:35 -0400

Ordinary people who make a difference:

I was encouraged to read about Russell Jackson this morning on CNN. As CNN reports

in 1997 [Russell] gave up his career as an Alabama firefighter, moved in with friends and dug into his…

S.H.A.P.E Workshop - ABILITIES

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:00:13 -0400

S.H.A.P.E Workshop - ABILITIES: This is the 2nd in a five-part series on a class I’m taking at church called “S.H.A.P.E Workshop.” I wrote an intro and explained the class last week, so I’ll refrain from that here. Suffice it to…

Todd Bentley

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:40:02 -0400

Todd Bentley:

When we talked before about Todd Bentley, I was secretly hoping he was just a bullshitter and was making up all that stuff about beating people with the love of God.

Unfortunately it appears I was…

“James Dobson doesn’t speak for me”

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:52:43 -0400

“James Dobson doesn’t speak for me”:

After James Dobson criticized Barack Obama last week, Pastor Kirbyjon Caldwell responded by setting up the website James Dobson Doesn’t Speak for Me.

The site compares Dobson’s criticisms with…

Christmas Wish List

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:29:40 -0400

Christmas Wish List: Today I was in that church of Consumption commonly known as “The Mall” here in the U.S. It’s always a somewhat traumatic experience, watching all the Americans participate in the worship. I’m not…

WALL-E

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:15:00 -0400

WALL-E:

We went to see WALL-E on Sunday. I’ll comment on it without discussing important aspects of the plot beyond what’s in the trailers.

After the first trailer a while ago I wasn’t sure I wanted to go…

Two sides of the fence

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:50:38 -0400

Two sides of the fence: Yesterday my wife and I were over in one of the richer neighborhoods in Seattle, and poking around for public beach access so she could jump into Lake Washington, as it was a scorcher of a day. We…

Imagination and faith

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:09:27 -0400

Imagination and faith: Eugene Peterson is the genius who completed, mostly by himself, pretty much the only readable translation of the Bible into American English. It’s called The Message. He talks about that, and about…

Words of the Faith

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:03:26 -0400

Words of the Faith: This morning as I drove into work, I was listening to a podcast called “pray-as-you-go.” In the podcast, they asked the question, “What price have you paid for your discipleship?” As I was trying to…

Simple Things

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:03:25 -0400

Simple Things:

This week’s featured OA from the New Life Community Church e-zine:

I volunteer at a hospital, just to try to be of help to people during difficult times. Several months ago one of the elderly…

Garment ethics

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:49:38 -0400

Garment ethics:

Confusing times in the battle for human rights and dignity in the garment industry.

Last week, A BBC report uncovered serious abuse in the supply chain of Primark, one of the UK’s biggest budget…

The Humble Majority who think many religions lead to heaven

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:53:56 -0400

The Humble Majority who think many religions lead to heaven:

A friend from the church I used to attend emailed me this column by Eric Zorn and asked me my opinion of it.

In the column Eric Zorn praises the ‘Humble Majority’ revealed in recent Pew Forum…

What can God do for you?

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:22:48 -0400

What can God do for you?: On Thursday Mike wrote about the S.H.A.P.E workshop and heart\passion and gave a list of questions to try out to help us to extend out understanding of our own passions. The last question raised…

Christian festival through the eyes of a Buddhist

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:27:12 -0400

Christian festival through the eyes of a Buddhist:

Jeremy has an interesting post up about his Buddhist friend John’s response to a Christian festival.

John was helping Jeremy demonstrate Chinese Juggling Sticks at the event. Jeremy was curious…

Report From India

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:40:20 -0400

Report From India:

Austin Thomas is a 20-year old from Reno, Nevada, who is traveling and serving in India for a month with Young Life. He’s the son of Lori Thomas, my friend and former Young Life staff partner…

Friday Video: John McCain is “aware of the Internet”

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:08:46 -0400

Friday Video: John McCain is “aware of the Internet”:

Friday video: tank man

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:43:43 -0400

Friday video: tank man:

The Tank Man video has to be one of the most inspirational bits of tape ever recorded. I know you’ve all see it before, but it is pretty amazing so I thought it would be worth seeing again.

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Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:33:22 -0400

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