November 2011
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“The problem with prisons today is that they’re storage houses, not...”
– Jack Abramoff to TPM
“There are bushes burning all around you and you are missing them.”
– Rob Bell, Fit to Smash Ice
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mylo xyloto: sometimes you need a Mexican/African...
Both of our weekend farmer’s markets here in Baltimore have a bakery vendor that also sells “Mexican Cokes.” They are Coca-Cola bottles filled with Coke’s brewed (?) with sugar cane rather than High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS). In most countries around the world, Coca-Cola is made with cane sugar. In the US, we got HFCS in our Cokes sometime in the 1980s. I hardly drink soda...
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“So when you remove the soul from music and transplant the body parts (chord...”
– Michael Gungor | Zombies, Wine and Christian Music
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WatchMichael Stipe, Brian Eno and Stephen Colbert | Lean on Me
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“And what about the poor? Jesus is crystal clear about the necessity of reaching...”
– #FrancisChan “Failure to Help the poor Could Send you to Hell”
October 2011
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“The very real needs of Americans pale in comparison to the needs foreign aid...”
– Rich Stearns, “Cutting Foreign Aid: Not the America I Love,” via HuffPo
“How about an economy of enough? If you have much, give. If you have too little,...”
– Kyle Small
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Watchthoughts on what it means to be an evangelical, borrowing from John Weborg via Sojo
“If you feel you can’t tolerate the mess, the only advice I can give to you...”
– Gordon Crosby via KJAsmall
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The Arch at 80: Saints dance among us
There is a magnificent, modern church mural at St. Gregory of Nyssa’s Episcopal Church in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood that illustrates a kingdom of God that is expansive, welcoming, and full of dance.(View the Icon of the Dancing Saints HERE.)
Completed in 2009, the mural’s beautiful saints range from the traditional (St. Paul, Mary Magdalene, Thomas Aquinas… even Martin Luther)...
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R.E.M. taught me how to lose religion and live a...
One of my earliest experiences with music that really mattered was happened in the back seat of my parent’s Oldsmobile sedan in 1988. Mom was driving my sister and me home from the mall and took a shortcut through the back woods near our central Ohio town while R.E.M.’s new single “Stand” was playing. Mom turned it up and I immediately recalled it as “that song with the dance video” on MTV.
In...
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sermon at Holy Comforter
Proper 20A
Exodus 16:2-16
Matthew 20:1-16
Philippians 1:21-30
I often wonder what it would’ve been like to be with Moses and Aaron and that early band of wandering Israelites. I don’t think I would have had any problem with the journey itself. I like to travel. I like to see new places. I even like the solitude of the desert. You would never have heard me ask “Are we there...
December 2010
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2010: A Grain of Great Insistence
My mix CDs are attempts at cataloguing my favorite music of the year, memories through these songs and the locations/people that evoke these songs, as well as create some sort of narrative. In all honesty, and with some humility, they’re sorts of religion-less liturgies pointing towards the good, true and beautiful. That sounds ridiculous. You know this already perhaps.
It was a year of travel,...
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WatchColbert on Jesus (16 December 2010)
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WatchChristmas Lights | Coldplay
credo elvem etiam vivere = I believe Elvis lives. Yes he does.
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“When a ray of light strikes a crystal, it gives a new quality to the crystal....”
– Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain
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Advent 1: Refract the Light!
Advent is a time of engaged waiting. We don’t sit passively and wait for the coming of Christ, we engage in what God is doing in our time: around us, within us. Thank God we have these weeks to wait and meditate; to prepare.
Maybe Christmas is hard for you. I certainly find it challenging. There seems to be a massive emphasis on the perfect: the perfect gift, the perfect meal, the perfect...
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November 2010
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“Today is the Feast of Christ the King. When you hear the gospel reading today,...”
– Fr. Joe Muth | St. Matthew’s, Baltimore
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parts of my town look like Africa
Parts of Baltimore look like Africa. I am the first to try to tell the more hopeful stories out of the two-thirds world, but we know there are some tough stories, too. Obviously. I remember driving through Freetown late the second time around. We were hurtling through the streets from the port at the speed of light, or at least as fast as the Citroen would take us. The roads were rough enough, but...
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“Balam, February 24, 1791
Dear Sir:
Unless the divine power has raised you...”
– via Global Ministries of UMC. Wesley to Wilberforce. This would be the last letter that Wesley ever wrote. British slavery was made illegal 16 years later. It took some 75 years for US slavery to be abolished.
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WatchJonsi live timelapse
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WatchTerrible Love (alternate version) | The National
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On Luke 4
Jesus chose sides.
I know that might be tough to hear in this day and age. Afterall, we live in a binary world: Right/Left, Red/ Blue, Black/White, Mac/PC. Everywhere we look it seems like there is division and we’re forced to pick a team or a tribe.
And so when I say Jesus chooses sides, I mean to say that according to Luke 4, it’s pretty clear that Jesus cuts through the crowd...
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October 2010
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Soulful Capitalism
Last night I had the privilege to attend “Does Capitalism Have a Soul,” a debate at Wheaton College between Jim Wallis of Sojourners and Arthur Brooks of American Enterprise Institute. The evening was moderated by ONE Fellow and Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson. Essentially Wallis and Brooks agreed, No, Capitalism doesn’t have a soul. It’s an economic system,...
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“Watching commercials during the World Series with my boys, you’d think the...”
– @JimWallis
