Trying to FollowTrying to FollowI once read the words of a man who said, Follow me, and I've been on that journey ever since. Articles
Non-Violence In Real Life
2008-03-31 16:54:00 Since making the decision to be non-violent I’ve often had the question come up about what that really looks like. We so lack examples of choosing to be non-violent in the face of a violent world. I’ve wanted to collect stories of non-violence for some time, but I’ve never really made the effort. Here’s one ... More About: Life , Violence , Real , Real Life , Non-violence
The Spirituality of a Good Time With Friends
2008-03-30 12:43:00 There is something profoundly spiritual about spending time with close friends. That’s why I’m concluding this blog post to go spend time with them. Go find your friends to and tell them their loved. No Tags More About: Friends , Spirituality , Time , Good
Book Review: Shepherding a Child?s Heart, by Tedd Tripp
2008-03-29 11:23:00 As a new parent, I recently read the book, Shepherding a Child’s Heart by Tedd Tripp at the request of a friend. The following thoughts are a review of the book itself, and should not be seen as a reflection on the parenting techniques espoused or those parents who choose those techniques. I’ll cut right ... More About: Parenting , Book Review , Review , Book
Painted Houses and Fulfilled Dreams
2008-03-28 11:22:00 When I entered middle school my family moved to a house in Madison Wisconsin. It was our house, our walls, inside and out, and with that it began to take shape and look like our family. Somewhere early on, my mom painted some dancing, flowy stick figures of us on the garage door. The house ... More About: House , Dreams , Houses , Mural
Challenge Me or Provoke Me Thursdays
2008-03-27 11:45:00 In an attempt to keep up with the latest news, events, and blogosphere happenings, I’ve put the rss reader on hold and am asking for personal recommendations. I found this cool auto-linking code, so you can posts suggested readings right to my blog post. Feel free to recommend something you’ve written yourself, or something you ... More About: Challenge
Vague Values Causes Worthless Purchasing Power
2008-03-26 11:35:00 I wrote a segment a while back about ‘Corporate Responsibility’ highlighting corporations that I felt where doing a responsible job at their business, and thus, were worth shopping at. Since then, I now do a monthly Corporate Responsibility segment on a world-famous podcast. It’s important to have a chance to educate others on where to ... More About: Power , Values , Vague
YouTubesday: Why We Fight, Who Killed The Electric Car, and More
2008-03-25 12:41:00 Figure I should just post some good videos I’ve watched recently. Why We Fight is phenomenal. It really makes you angry, or at least should raise some questions if your pro-war. Below is the trailer: Somebody put the entire movie up in multiple segments on youtube. You can find it here. Who Killed The Electric Car? ... More About: Electric Car
What You Are About To Read Is A Recording
2008-03-24 12:05:00 The habit of sitting down and writing every day is a good habit to be in. It’s also a good habit to read every day. Both are positive things, and I think in a large degree can be positive no matter how you go about them. If you just read Sports Illustrated and just write ... More About: Recording , Blog , Read
I?d Rather Just Talk About The Easter Bunny
2008-03-23 12:49:00 I don’t know that I have any profound Easter thoughts. The latest is that, with an 8 month old, I’m finding a lot of the sort of foundational, theological stories of my faith, to be well, hard to explain. Someone gave us a book about Easter, and though like all her books, the kiddo has ... More About: Talk , Easter Bunny , Bunny , Sunday School
Book Review: The 4-Hour Workweek, by Timothy Ferriss
2008-03-22 15:47:00 Last week I read The 4-Hour Workweek, by Timothy Ferriss. Considering I currently don’t have any ‘workweek’ to speak of, I figure 4 hours might be a step in the right direction, especially if he’s suggesting that’s all you need to work. It was a decent read. Like many of these self-help, get-rich types of book, ... More About: Book Review , Review , Book
?Giving Up? By Ariah Fine, On Sale Now
2008-03-20 21:18:00 If you didn’t already know, I wrote a book. Over the course of a month, last November, I wrote an entire fiction novel. It was my first book project and my first fiction work. Anyways, I’ve self-published it through Createspace.com and it is now available for sale. If your interested in ordering a copy, here ... More About: Sale , Author , Giving , Fine
Your Assignment: Attend an Open Mic in Your City
2008-03-20 02:50:00 Just got back from another open mic night at the coffee shop down the street from my house. Have I told you yet that I love where I live? Anyways, I’ll just make this post brief, but I really want to encourage you to attend an open mic somewhere in your city. I’m talking about ... More About: Open , City , Minneapolis , Spoken Word
YouTubesday: The Power of An Illusion, The Myth of Race
2008-03-19 02:23:00 Yesterday, I had the opportunity to watch the first part of the PBS series, Race : The Power of An Illusion , with a group of folks from our church. It’s an incredible video series that I truly believe every person should be required to watch at some point in their lives. I can’t seem to find any ... More About: Myth
Darn 500 Errors? I think I fixed it?
2008-03-17 21:06:00 If you’ve commented on the blog recently, You’ve probably been confronted with a Error 500. Never fear, your comment has still posted, it just didn’t send you back to the page. Anyways, I was going to post, but with limited time, I’m going to try and fix these errors today. Hopefully you’ll know the results soon. I ... More About: Blog , Errors , Fixed
A Violent God and Redemptive Violence
2008-03-16 23:03:00 (These are thoughts in progress, stuff I haven’t considered before but a friend pointed out yesterday.) As you might know I think the idea of redemptive violence is a myth, that you can not bring redemption and good through violent acts (good guy kills bad guy, all live happily ever after). I began to come to ... More About: Violence , Violent
Book Review: Playing for Pizza, by John Grisham
2008-03-15 11:19:00 Okay, this is a lame book to review in comparison to the other books I’ve been reading, but it’s the book I read, so here’s the review. Playing for Pizza is one of John Grisham’s more recent books. It’s not in the mystery/law thriller category. I think he’s probably worked into his book writing deal ... More About: Book Review , Review , Book
This Is How It All Begins
2008-03-14 11:23:00 Adbusters Magazine is awesome, this page is from their recent issue about ‘cool.’ I think they nail on the head one of my fears about raising my child in this consumeristic society with this little piece. The text at the bottom reads: Even before your baby is born, a diaper arrives on your doorsteps, courtesy of ...
Fickle Internet and Awesome Babies
2008-03-13 15:56:00 Once again, I’m slacking on posting. Fortunately, it’s not because I and the kiddo are sick, indeed we’ve been in great spirits and have been out enjoying the beautiful Minneapolis weather. Also, Mindy has been off for a bunch of days recently so we’ve enjoyed the almost mini vacation exploring our city. It’s been sweet. At ... More About: Internet , Babies , Awesome , Blog
YouTubesday: Somewhat Related to Shane Claiborne
2008-03-11 16:40:00 I was going to call this collection random too, but I realized as I was posting videos I’d seen recently on others blogs, they all had some connection to Shane Claiborne. Since I heard him speak yesterday at Bethel, I figure we might as well call this all some what related to Shane. Cobalt Season (Ryan Sharp ... More About: Related
Nothing To Talk About But Buying Stuff
2008-03-10 22:54:00 One of the things reading The Paradox of Choice made me aware of is how much of our conversation is about buying stuff. We talk about what we are thinking of buying, be it house, car, electronics, friends share their opinions of their own house, car, product or the other ones they tried when shopping ... More About: Buying , Money , Stuff , Talk
Joyfully Accepting The Confiscation Of Your Property
2008-03-09 15:49:00 “You sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions.” -Hebrews 10:34 I talk a fair bit about giving things away, living simply, sacrificially giving and living in a way so that others needs are met. I’m no where near the ... More About: Property
Book Review: The Heavenly Man
2008-03-08 14:05:00 Last week I read the book, The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun. I’ve heard it recommend a handful of times as a telling story of China, modern day miracles, the persecuted church, and one man’s incredible testimony to God’s faithfulness. I found all that and more. I want to be ... More About: Book Review , Review , Book
I Live In The Safest Part of Minneapolis
2008-03-07 16:09:00 I went to a community meeting yesterday and got to hear the crime update from the Inspector Michael Martin who is the commander of the fourth precinct where I live. He comes to the Hawthorne Huddle every month and updates the community on the safety and crimes in the area, allowing himself to be accountable ... More About: Live , Part , Minneapolis
On Subscribing and Economics and Such
2008-03-06 05:46:00 Sorry again for the less then substantive posts. I promise to get back to regular posting shortly. For now, I thought I’d make another brief push for joining the Economic Stimulus Giving Spree. We are almost at our 20 person goal: (and you can sign via Facebook now) In other news, I know right after a serious ... More About: Economics , Blog
YouTubesday: Sorry, Just Randomness
2008-03-05 03:42:00 No particular theme, explanation, and I know it’s late… No TagsShare This More About: Randomness
Random Thoughts on Politics
2008-03-03 21:33:00 Since I haven’t written any real blog posts in a week, it’ll take me a little bit to get back into the groove of things. With that said, I figure I could ramble about a few political thoughts. Don’t worry nothing inflammatory or profound here. Just random. I’d really like to find a Christian who considers ... More About: Politics , Random Thoughts , Random , Thoughts
Befriending Judas
2008-03-02 16:02:00 At a community group I was at a few weeks ago we happened to be discussing the topic of ‘community’ (go figure). It was a really interesting conversation, and I’m looking forward to building relationships with the many people from our neighborhood that attend. At one point in the conversation an interesting topic came up. ... More About: Security
Book Review: The Paradox of Choice, by Barry Schwartz
2008-03-01 17:01:00 I’m back at it, with another book review, which is still on track with a book a week, though I started lagging behind recently. This book comes recommended by my friend, Neeraj. The book I read, The Paradox of Choice : Why More is Less by Barry Schwartz is all about the paradox that the freedom of ... More About: Book Review , Review , Book
Beautiful Weather, Stuffy Noses and Oprah
2008-02-27 17:03:00 This is mostly a personal update. The weather has finally been beautifully nice up here, but the kiddo and I have been sick the whole time so we haven’t gone outside to enjoy it. Today, hopefully, we finally will. The sickness is mostly to blame for the lack of substantive postings, as well as some ... More About: Weather , Oprah , Beautiful
YouTubesday: Skid Row Kids and Saved For Compassion
More articles from this author:2008-02-26 18:15:00 YouTubesday is going to be slim today, mainly because I have three videos I’d strongly encourage you to watch, and they are a little bit longer then most. GOOD Magazine has been making some amazing videos. Particularly this one fits well with much of the topics on this blog, it’s about Skid Row in LA. ... More About: Kids , Compassion 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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