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

Autumn is here to stay, I say

I don't have much to say lately. The economy is unimportant to me (in case you've tucked your head under a rock somewhere, Bush and the corporations got caught together in bed which means the financial system is in a crisis. The old white guy that's running for Prez is ...

The Question of Method

Note: This is part 2 of a 3 part series. Read Part 1. Assuming that peace is only a method toward establishing equity and justice, as suggested in an earlier post, the question is begged, "Is violence ever an acceptable method towards this same idealistic end goal?" Historically Christendom has long moved past ...

Peace is a Middle-Class American Luxury

Note: This is part 1 of a 3 part series. Read Part 2. The year was 1856. The sun beat down on the cotton fields and the dark backs of dozens of African Americans bent in manual labor on a plantation in Alabama. An overweight white man sitting in the shade ...

Modernism: The Pre-Modern Approach [Part 1]

William Blake keeps haunting me. He was really one of the first to actually articulate the adverse effects of the "reason and science" Enlightenment concepts on the fragile, imaginative mythos of Christianity. The battle of Blake's day was an epistemology that confined God to an abstract, confined watchdog. Thomas Merton has ...

Modernism

As quoted in Subversive Orthodoxy by Robert Inchausti: A few hundred years ago, Man asked God if he could switch places with Him for just a few seconds, so that he could know what it was like to be God, and God could know what it was like to be a ...

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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