This trailer for an upcoming film called Jesus Camp freaks the hell out of me. Literally. What is going on? Why does it seem like the main message of this film is so different then the main message of Jesus. It’s stuff like this, that gives reason for my next post that has been brewing […]
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The idea of authority has always been something that has continually been running through my head. I had a few authority figures that should never have been in authority positions and a few others that I’m glad were. I’ve wrote a few things on authority in the past when a good friend of mine was
Apparently Rachel’s family goes to bed earlier than I expected on vacation (I guess two hours of sleep stuffed in a car doesn’t equal a good nights sleep). And I also discovered that way up here on Manitoulin Island, there is internet access; high speed was even just made available. I made it a goal
I am on vacation for the next week and few days. In that time I am going to be moving into my new apartment and then heading out with my girlfriend and her parents to Manitoulin Island to relax for a week. No internet acess may be a relief for a while. I’ll be home
I’ve been torn lately. I’m struggling with how to look at things that are happening to people around the world. I brought this up in the car on the ride home with Rachel and Darryl last night and I’m still not satisfied. Jesus message makes no sense. Let’s just say that straight up and get
I don’t think I’m done with this yet. I talked a bunch about how consumerism has so infected the church that now we think it’s normal to think like a consumerist and follow Jesus. I think the same, at least for us here in the west, goes for materialism. One stat till haunts me. “It
I just absolutly love this title “How then Shall We Kill,” it is loaded with meaning that I love. dCOMPOSE has three posts on the death penalty with this title. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 ———————– Hunger for Justice has a small, but important post, on politics and the religious right in regards to
I just finished reading Spencer Burke’s book A Heretics Guide to Eternity. It was an enjoyable and easy read overall. His thesis could probably be summed up in a few sentences found on page 61… “Religion declares that we are separated from God, that we are ‘outsiders.’ Grace tells us the opposite; we are already
This is just too good. Walter Brueggemann, a renowned 72 year old theologian, has his own myspace, and the song that plays when you load it up….”Damn it feels good to be a gangster” Found this throughPomomusings
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 was a strong individual and we loved stopping in at Tim Horton’s to have a chat with her when we
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 all kinds of other things labelled political or not get included in our faith like it was part of the
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 and unique links on the net. ———————– There is a documetry coming out on HBO of Hurricane Katrina by Spike
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 available on the Cultivate Website. Click here to see them all.
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 do some relaxing. My experience at Cultivate and organizing it overall was great. I learned a lot during the day
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 the main sessions. My highlight so far has been the first set of discussion pods, all the pods were about
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 be one The Cultivate Gathering website. If time permits, I hope to be updatting my blog throughout the day with
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 Friday. I’m just going to mix them in with my occasional links. A great quote from Eugene Peterson, posted by
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 like the same outcome is still happening. For instance, we no longer really need to study deep into the Scriptures
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 rich man who comes up to Jesus and asks him how he inherits eternal life. Jesus tells him to keep
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 news sites, but I can’t seem to see any blog, but a lot of people must be getting the