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Continue reading →: ★ Blogroll updated
I spent some time last night updating my links, or blogroll, to point you to many of the blogs that I read regularly and to some other very helpful organizations and networks. If you read this blog directly in your browser, scroll down and look at the link categories in…
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Continue reading →: ★ Where is Jesus tonight?
I’m wondering if tonight the Jesus of North Bend is dealing cards to the chain smokers at the new Snoqualmie tribal casino, bartending at the Sure Shot tavern and listening to stories from the lady who just lost her job, or cleaning up meth addicts in the woods up Middle…
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Continue reading →: ★ Why is New Monasticism on the Rise?
Folks often ask me why I, a failed missional church planter who lives in a single family home in the exurbs with a low likelihood of moving into multifamily housing any time soon, is so profoundly struck by monasticism, both old and new. I usually can’t answer the question in…
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Continue reading →: ★ links for 2008-11-19
I'm Not One Of Those 'Love Thy Neighbor' Christians | The Onion – America's Finest News Source Once again, The Onion's writing of satire illuminates reality uncomfortably well. (tags: christianity politics humor usa) Chat | Chat Rooms | Paltalk Express Multple-person video/audio/text chat rooms. Think of it like Skype conferences…
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Continue reading →: ★ links for 2008-11-18
O Lord, establish this vineyard A Washington state ministry writes about his move from the Vineyard into the Orthodox church (both he and his church) in 1993. (tags: vineyard orthodox church) Cal Thomas – The Death of the Religous Right Cal Thomas, a columnist and conservative evangelical Christian writes: Too…
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Continue reading →: ★ links for 2008-11-17
California wildfires (yet again) – The Big Picture – Boston.com Several wildfires raged throughout Southern California this weekend, in the hills surrounding Los Angeles, burning some 35,000 acres (55 sq mi) and destroying around 1,000 homes as California's Fire Season extends toward becoming a year-round condition. Dry Santa Ana winds…
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Continue reading →: ★ links for 2008-11-15
Magnum Blog / Wear Good Shoes: Advice to young photographers – the photo blog of Magnum Photos 35 photographers' advice to young photogs. Adobe Lightroom 2 Understanding the Lightroom 2 Develop pane blog.worship.com: Interview with Vineyard recording artist, Chris Lizotte "I'd like to thank Chris Lizotte for taking time out…
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Continue reading →: ★ A Poetic Parable for Theology Students
When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable,…
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Continue reading →: ★ links for 2008-11-14
The Frame: The children lost in the Congo conflict The children lost in the Congo conflict The conflict in eastern Congo continues. Consider this report by Anita Powell of the Associated Press: Rebecca Nyiringindi scanned the sprawling refugee camp in eastern Congo, searching for just one person among the thousands…
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Continue reading →: ★ links for 2008-11-13
Magnum Photos – The Places We Live For the first time in history, more people live in urban areas than non-urban. And now 1/3 of those in urban areas globally live in slums. Magnum takes a photojournalistic look at global slums. It's as powerful as you would hope from Magnum.…


