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The Cultural
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Cancel Our Debts?
In my reading of the Disciple’s Prayer (the anabaptist/Quaker name for the Lord’s Prayer), we have to make sure that we dont limit what forgiveness includes ((See part 3, part
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We All Know That Reality has a Well-Known “Conservative” Bias
One of the things my favorite (fake) newscaster Stephan Colbert says on a regular bias is that “Major media has a well-known liberal bias.” And this is definitely something many people believe. This
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Food, Inc. Documentary on Where Our Food Comes From (Review)
The tag line for FOOD, inc. is “You’ll never look at your dinner the same way again,” and well, they’re
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Dive! The Film: A Review of Jeremy Seifert’s Documentary on Dumpster Diving
At Camas Friends Church, we’ve been doing a monthly film and discussion group we’re calling “Last Sundays for the Earth.” The purpose of the event is to watch a film, or have
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Limiting Access: Flickr and Archiving Our Children’s Lives
I’ve been pretty open about sharing our lives online. I regularly post photos on flickr, videos on vimeo, post updates to twitter and facebook and even blog here (on this blog and our
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My choices for the Quintessential ‘It’s Alright Ma’ Dylan Playlist
The other day I got a message from a friend and former professor of mine from our Malone days, John David Geib, who is in the middle of facilitating a class on all-things
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Interventions: Discipleship in a Permissive Culture (Pt 1)
This is my reflections on Luke 14:25-35 from September 20th, 2009 and is in two parts, both work independently from one another. Part two has been published here. It was originally titled:
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Bob Dylan and the BLACK CROSS (HEZEKIAH JONES)
I was listening to some Bob Dylan the other day when I ran across his version of Black Cross, a poem by
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The Divine Commodity by Skye Jethani (A Review)
I’m way late to be posting about this book, but I still operate under the “better really late, than even later
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(Untitled)
My friend Rhett Smith asked me on twitter yesterday where he should start if he wanted to get into some of i
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Immigration and May Day
The May Marches are just about to take place and I just received an email with an image seeking to raise awareness
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The Kingdom Call and Practice of Resistance
I have been thinking a lot about “practices of resistance” lately, not just the theology and philosophy behind this but also how to incorporate them into my routines more. So over the next few
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Virtual Desire and a New York Police Officer
There’s a really interesting article in the New York Times today about a police office who was being charged with brutality
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Fan Culture and “Virtual” Communities
I’ve written about Henry Jenkins in the past, he’s Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and writes constantly about fan culture or “fandom,” remix, and other contemporary cultural happenings. I
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Elvis Perkins on Ash Wednesday
Today is Ash Wednesday, it is the first day of Lent and one day we reflection on repentance, cleansing and the frailty
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