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"When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky" - Siddhartha Gautama

Lancaster Bible School

I'm currently helping to teach a week of Bible school to Lancaster City kids at a large rural facility. Pray! The week is starting off pretty hellishly. Me and another teacher only have around 6-8 kids under our care, but they're a handful and this sneaky voice keeps telling me they're ...

A few helpful things to remember about me

This is one of those random posts. I am in a random mood. I am infinitely more fragile than anyone realizes, including myself. I am insecure. Dogma disguises doubt. Questions disguise ignorance. Laughter disguises fear. Anger disguises weeping. I've lived a double life so long that nobody knows who the real me is including myself. Systems, public opinion, ...

What I’ve been up to.

I just got back from a few days of camping with the family. In this case camping basically consists of eating, sleeping, meditating, hiking and wakeboarding. And I'm gonna be busy these next few weeks. Sometime when I have time to blog I need to put in writing some theological questions that ...

To go AWOL

To go "absent without official leave" from the blogosphere may be necessary for a period sometimes. So...I might be back again. Thanks for all of you who touched my life in the small ways by asking how I was doing or just letting me know you were there for me as ...

Experiences in the Big Apple

I just got back from a field trip to New York City with my high school. We saw a lot of interesting things including essentials like the World Trade Center site, the 'Statue-of-all-we-hold-dear', Times Square, and Broadway. While on liberty island, I was deep in thought about the statue that once ...

I’m Back

I'm back from the conference. It was really good...in an awesome, mind-blowing sort of way. But right now I'm so exhausted I can hardly think. I feel emotionally and physically zapped. It probably comes from getting only a few hours of sleep last night and not enough coffee.

Everyman Conference

everyman conference God is calling all of us to eternal and essential connections. He is calling us to scale new heights and go to the next level. Strong connections with God and other men produces the character of Jesus Christ. Weak connections produce lukewarm results and many times lead to ...

What can I contribute?

I'm Art, a 17 year old white/Asian kid in middle class America. "What new insight", you say, "Can this Art guy contribute to the already clogged and not-so-artful blogosphere of theology and philosophy?" I've been asking myself the same question.

Life and Linux

Today I installed Slackware 11.0 on my home computer as a dual-boot with Windows XP. It's been two years or more since I first started messing with Linux, but I've never fully given Windows the boot. I haven't even booted into Linux any time in the last six months. Linux is ...

November 26th 2008
Tags: emergent Comments

Emergent Village Hitler

The more you know about Emergent Village, the funnier this video will be. It comes in the wake of Tony Jones stepping down as national coordinator in a move towards decentralization. Emergent Village Hitler Good stuff...and I love the fact that even Emergent Village found it funny.
November 23rd 2008
Tags: justice, new creation Comments

Need Clothes Fairly Traded?

I know I've written about this company before, but I really do like this company and their philosophy and would like to help Adam out through these tough times. So I'm begging you. If you need clothes (and everybody does), do the right thing and consider maybe checking out No Sweat ...
November 20th 2008
Tags: life Comments

Where I Am Right Now (rant numbero uno)

After existing in a Bart Simpson-like zen for my early teen years, it's actually somewhat surprising for me to find myself where I am now. I guess I always figured I'd take life like it comes, somewhat like hanging on to a train while cruising the world. Never thought I'd ...
November 4th 2008
Tags: washington politics Comments

Yes We Can!

It's election eve and everyone's calling a blowout for Obama. There's this big lump swelling up in my throat; to call this historical is an understatement. Americans pulled together and did what they thought was best for their nation. And they finally elected a Presidential ticket that did not include ...

Why A Vote For McCain Is NOT A Vote For Life

Life is something God-breathed, something sacred. It's a mystery that no one can explain; but it is a divine gift from the earth and our ancestors. Perhaps that's why we cherish it so much. It really is all we have, when all the shells and facades and influences and experiences ...

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