pat loughery

How many monks does it take to change a light bulb? That depends on whether they’ve gotten around to installing the compact fluorescent ones inside the abbey. For the Holy Cross Abbey in Berryville, the preferred answer is “Not many monks at all.”

Video and text of “Blue Like Jazz” author Donald Miller speaking the benediction at the Democratic National Convention last night

E-mail problems, flaky iPhones, and broken Macs. What’s Steve Jobs to do?

Rose writes about the use of power in the Christian life

Lauren Winner is coming to Quest Church to discuss faith and gender. I’m planning to go, or watch the kids so Shannon can go.

My sis Jen Lemen gets a super gig blogging about parenting with SuperSisters via PBS

The Tools for Thought blog has a thoughtful post tackling the problems many would-be followers of Getting Things Done have with the Someday/Maybe list, where you (supposedly) place realistic things you just can’t get to right now. Many lists are ignored, for example, because they’re just too darn long.

Rachelle Mee-Chapman writes about failure at BlogHer

Toward the end of the book there’s a scene where the main character is introduced to what it might look like if you could see each other truly. What if you could see each individual’s personality and emotions as color and light?

August 2008 issue is online

Jordon Cooper rereads Rudy Carrasco’s book on urban and multi-ethnic outreach