Partly its because I’m a rebel and I hate anything that everyone likes or finds meaningful. I like to go against the grain and be difficult and annoying. However, I think there is a lot…
I’ve been really bad at posting on here in the last month or so because I’ve been switching all 30 or so of our websites over to our new server, I’ve gone to Florida for…
Pernell wrote an open letter to theStory about his thoughts, positive and negative of his experience here. ———————– NT Wright at Calvin College. (ht) ———————– A funny video of the song “Let the bodies hit…
This morning I went with Rachel to check out a church down here in Florida. I figured since we were way down south that we would search the internet for some sort of church that…
Well I’m heading down South for the fourth time this year. I can’t complain. Rachel and I are going to visit my grandparents near Tampa. I will hopefully be able to post pics and a…
An often used cliché that we use when telling stories is that when we go to help someone really they ended up helping us. There are two reasons why I never did understand this form…
Ron has a very informative post on the Sarnia – Fort McMurray relationship with oil. He works for Suncor and they fly him there every once in a while to do some work. ———————– Pernell…
I like John Stewart. I watched this about 3 months ago, then Dave e-mailed it to me again today, I had to link to it. They asked John Stewart what politician gives him the most…
Sometimes I feel sick to my stomach when I hear stories about how little it takes to help someone, and yet they remain unhelped. Rob Bell tells a story about this women who got a…
The picture above is one that I took in my friend’s backyard in August 2004. See all the pics here. His name is Scotty Maidman, and tomorrow I’m going to see him race at the…
I realized again last week how much our language really signifies how bad of a state our culture is in. This time I noticed it in the words “getting ahead.” When we are trying to…
There was little interest in Sarnia poverty tour only a few local politicians show up for awareness event. I didn’t know about this was available at all, I’m wondering if it was open to the…
(via Bob) Remember Kramer from Seinfield? Well he had a little explosion on a stand-up act he was doing and made quite some brutal racist comments. Here is the video of the comments (*Warning, don’t…
There was some sort of problem with my server and I lost my last post, which is annoying as always, and I’m feeling too lazy to post it right now, maybe in a few hours….
Why my friend Andrew is not a Buddhist. I’ve basically came to the same conclusion as he has, but also, I find Buddhism is all about eliminating desire instead of enhancing/fulfilling it which seems to…
Last night I couldn’t sleep and having to leave at 5am for the Free Methodist Class that I’m sitting in right now it only seemed normal with my sleep patterns to be up at 2am…
The idea and the word community has become sort of a buzz word in my life in the past year or two lately. Everything is about building community and I want to have meaningful community;…
The Evolving Church (a conference that three friends and I ran in Toronto) happened back in April and 100 Huntley Street took a bunch of footage there and did interviews. Finally, 8 months later, they…
I’ve been talking to my friends a lot about dating lately. Many of my friends are married already, and some are engaged and then there are the few that are still in the dating process….
Two things that I want to reiterate from the class tonight. (This post is meant for my Spirituality and Technology class) 1. I made the mistake of bringing up a topic tonight that I didn’t…