pat loughery

This looks like a good one to put on the to-read list.

How much would sitting in on an extensive course on Preaching in Postmodern World taught by Tim Keller be worth to you?

How about free? Here's the link on iTunes.

Another excellent entry into the conversation on new monasticism and race

GTD with Jott and Evernote

The biggest thing we have to continue to do as suburban Christians is to constantly ask the hard questions and constantly look for solutions / answers to the challenge before us. I think the answers aren’t the same for all times, all people and all places. Some seasons require some answers and other seasons of life demand others.

A wealth of compelling news pictures on the Associated Press wire today covering world events as diverse as the economic woes in the financial markets, the recovery from Hurricane Ike, the election campaigns in the United States and more

Len takes a look at Walter Bruggemann's book "Cadences of Home":

In the first chapter of Cadences of Home, Walter Brueggemann suggests six points of connection between the circumstance of exile and scriptural resources. I was particularly struck on this reading of the obvious connection points to the need for missional orders formed around a rule of life.

For me, this is one of the major ethical issues to help me decide how I vote in the upcoming election. The ends never justify the means, not for a moral society which believes itself to be "a Christian nation" (whether or not it truly is such a thing).