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In case you missed this on my twitter, this conversation is from the US border in Buffalo on our way to Haiti. Us Border Guard: your going to haiti? Us: yes. Board Guard: you better…

I’ve been involved in an initiative here in Sarnia called Circles for the last number of months.  It has been a great experience.  It all started with a workshop I sat in called Bridges out…

Today was a big day for downtown Sarnia.  A large number of downtowners went to a council meeting where they were deciding the fate of the new Lambton Gallery project.  It’s been quite a long…

People find it odd that I’m quite passionate about what we do with our children at our church and within my community.  It’s because I don’t have any kids of my own.  It doesn’t seem…

The $100m ‘loan’ from the World Bank to Haiti could be paid off as a fraction of the banking bonuses paid in addition to enormous salaries. (ht)

I’ve done quite a bit of design for theStory and for clients lately.  I’ve also found myself in the downtown core of Sarnia for the last two years.  Manley’s recently got out of downtown; our…

I love technology and dipping my hand into whatever I can.  With the IPhone taking the mobile world by storm I just couldn’t help but try to get in on the action.  So after lots…

“True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path and fearlessly following it.” -Ghandi “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road…

Well, it’s happening yet again, we are tackling our fourth conference in the last five years.  This one is called The Evolving Church: Kingdom Economy and it’s on April 10, 2010 at People’s Church in…

Sarnia fanatical and conservative Christians seem to have a really large voice in Sarnia.  It is unfortunate, because more times than not, I along with us at theStory, will get lumped in with all their…

Lately I was shown a status update on someone’s Facebook that said “Just got back from feeding the poor, feeling great, I was created for this.” I am positive, that if I was following the…

For some time now I have found that in many discussions have ended over and over again with being accused of being too idealistic or unrealistic. I find this hard to swallow. Are we not…

Dan and I have stumbled across a few videos lately that at a first watching thought we were watching a joke. To our dismay, we found out they were real; as in these people were…

After reading through Andy Crouch’s talk on practices and purchases, and wrestling with some ideas surrounding church planting, I’m beginning to see a major dichotomy that I hadn’t seen before. The split is now glaringly…

In working with Joe over the last number of years I have learned to respect his creative ways of doing things. I do not think like him nor do I connect to my faith through…

I found this video on Stupid Church People, this was just kind of crazy.  I don’t even know what to make of it.  I don’t know if Bakker should have been there spreading this agenda,…

CLICK HERE TO SEE MY IDEA I have been playing around with this idea over the past few months in my head.  Then I found this Aviva Community Fund group that helps make ideas happen. …

I’m going to make a new law, that is inspired by Godwin’s Law.  Read about it first if you don’t know what it is.  Here is my stab at one. The more one disagrees with…

While not the point, this is particularly relevant to us in Sarnia, including myself, in regards to the Moon the Balloon protest.  It’s a great comic that helps show the ridiculousness of the value we…