Race to Erase Homelessness in Sarnia
For some reason I’ve always hated asking for money. I actually hate talking about money with most people. Money always seems to be a touchy subject for people and I’d rather just stay away from…
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Links for Sept 01, 2007
This should give some of you who love decorating (Mom) and buying new things (Charity) endless hours of fun. Design your room. ———————– This is a bit harder to explain, but there is this new…
Links for August 28, 2007
This is just too awesome (ht) ———————– Online photo editing, with a lot of the capabilities that all you Mac users like with your web cam and doing silly photos of yourself. ———————– On killing…
Authority: Leading and Following
This is in response and addition to Dan posts on leadership. I have done a bit of writing on the ideas of authority over the past few years. I have grown a lot in my…
Links for August 22, 2007
And here is why I don’t like calling myself a Christian. (ht) ———————– I asked Dan what his thoughts on leadership were. He answered on his site, some good stuff here. ———————– Does micro-credit help…
Drawing Someone Else’s Line
Question: Should you draw or erase the line for someone else? Should you allow your sacrifices to be forced on other people in that they have to make the same ones without really deciding? Example…
Links for August 17, 2007
This made me laugh out loud a number of times. The comments are probably the funniest. ———————– Looks like a conference I would enjoy. Anyone want to sponsor me to go? ———————– Hypocrisy of “Radicals”…
What I Don’t Believe on Hell, Salvation and Death
Since my Uncle Larry died on Thursday I have been finding myself in an abnormal amount of conversations about death, hell, heaven and the afterlife. My Uncle Doug is a pastor in Connecticut, has been…
Larry Spaulding
A few days ago my Uncle Larry had a heart attack. From my understanding of the story he was alone at home when he had it and had to crawl to a phone and then…
A Sympathetic Look At Difference
I took a critical reasoning class in Philosophy at Tyndale. We got a sheet of paper, that I still have to this day, that listed out all of the fallacies that people use when making…
Links for August 07, 2007
We’ve been talking a lot about humour lately and how old people have such a different humour than we do, and wondering if in 30 years when we get older if our kids will think…
Action or Understanding
The more I desire to be active with my faith the more I realize the thin line between activism and self-absorbed acting. It’s a difficult line to see because part of me care very little…
Ideas Worth Spreading
The past two months, while traveling and resting I have read a lot of books, well a lot for me anyway. It was a lot of reading on international development, foreign aid, economics and new…
Sarnia Short Film Festival 2007
We are running the Sarnia Short Film Festival here in Sarnia this year on October 6th. 7 minute maximum films need to be submitted by MiniDV or DVD by Sept 24. Submissions from any city…
Should You Give to A Beggar?
I remember the first time I experienced a beggar on the street. It was in Toronto and he looked right at me and my friends, I was around 14 years old and he asked me…
Paris Day 30 & 31
This will be my last post about the trip. We start our trek back to London, England today, sleep at the airport, and then fly out tomorrow morning. It’s been a good ride so far…
Paris Day 29
Rachel posted about our 29th day, so I won’t. I will post a few pictures of the Eiffel Tower fireworks and such if they turned out later. Rachel also told a story of my Q-tip…
Running With the Bulls Day 28
Yesturday I ran with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain. Check out what happened there the day before I did it (just to show you what I was up against.) I didn’t find out until after…
Barcelona Day 28 and 29
You can tell I’m getting frustrated with the foreign keyboards because the letters are all in different places, my posts are a lot shorter. I’m missing my laptop more than ever know. Rachel and I…
Nice and Monaco Day 26 & 27
Yesterday we spent the day in Nice, sitting on the beach (getting a wicked sunburn). We also got bored later at night so we went to see Ocean’s 13 in the small little theatre close…