Sarnia Friend Paralyzed
I grew up going to the same private school as the Edwards family. She was a mom raising four children on her own, twin young boys with two older sisters. We called her Flo, she…
Author: Nathan Colquhoun
Consumerism, then Jesus
During the justice section at Cultivate, I sat with a group that talked about political systems. It was a great conversation that talked about how these political systems like consumerism, materialism, welfare, social programs and…
Links for August 23, 2006
My good friend and roomate Nathan Shurr has started up his own set of daily links on his blog. Something I’ll be definitely keeping an eye on because he usually points me to some great…
Cultivate Pictures and Podcasts
Here are some links to people that took pictures throughout the day at Cultivate. My Pics | 61 pictures Mike Todd | 1 interesting pic Jared Siebert | 106 pictures Also, the podcasts are all…
The Cultivate Experience
After 12 hours on Saturday at Cultivate I just needed to withdraw for a while and take a break, so I did and went home to Sarnia and got to go to theStory BBQ and…
Cultivate Highlight #1
Cultivate is going well so far. Pernell and Jared I know are both blogging here and there so check out their sites, I’m probably not going to say much. Podcasts will be available soon of…
Cultivate Gathering
The Cultivate Gathering starts in about 6 hours. Jared and myself are going to do our best to record as much as possible, at least the beginning presentations to make available for podcast that will…
Links for August 18, 2006
As part of The Daily Scribe, a majority of us are doing the Scribe Jamboree, where we take some of our favourite posts over the week off the Daily Scribe and link to them every…
Anything to Separate
There are a lot of things nowadays that separate us from what we should be attached to. We seem to detach ourselves from any kind of responsibility and justify it (of course) in our heads…
Selling All, Giving to the Poor
Mark 10 is one of the most amazing passages in the New Testament because it is so harsh, honest and barely understood let alone followed. We all know the story. It’s the story of the…
Links for August 14, 2006
Now this is interesting. The Iran president has started his own blog (click on the English button on the bottom menu to see it in English) [this is the link that was on some of…
The Irresistible Revolution: Some Quotes
I’ve been lacking in posts for a bit because I haven’t been at my computer in Hamilton and have been without constant net access for a while. I have been doing a lot of thinking…
Living in Community: Maybe A Few More Years
In the next few months I’m going to be moving back to Sarnia, my hometown, for good. I’ve been looking forward to moving back to Sarnia for quite sometime now and its finally happening along…
New Website
Remember that art I posted about a little while back? You can check out that post here. Anyway, I loved his art so much and I wanted some but I’m poor so we worked it…
The Kingdom: What Does Poor Even Mean?
In talking about the poor we automatically assume we are talking about a certain class of people. As soon as we envision “poor people” we would most likely have a neighbourhood in mind which would…
Links for August 02, 2006
EmergentNo from my understanding is a website dedicated to its title. They don’t like emerging type too much and like to whine about it a lot. They have some things to say about the Hive….
Last Day for Cultivate Early Fee
Today is the last day to sign up for the early bird price for the Cultivate Gathering. Sign up now www.cultivategathering.com.
The Kingdom: Living Like the Poor
Over the last little while I have been around people/organizations that have a deep rooted desire to help the poor and dedicate their lives doing so. I live with the family in Hamilton that was…
Sarnia Revival Audio Update
Click Here to hear it. Click here to read an open letter I wrote to the Sarnia Revival.
theStory BBQ
This weekend, three hours after I drove in from an overnight drive from New Orleans, theStory first BBQ of the summer went on. We are having two BBQ’s at Joe’s parents in laws house over…