Bottled Water Madness
Do you drink bottled water? Did you know it take 3x the water to make the bottle as it does to fill it? Get the facts.
Straight From The Horses Mouth
I’m reading The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli. He is for all intents and purposes the guy who crystallized a specific means of thinking: the ends justify the means. He died out of favor himself, but ended up being extremely influential in political and social thought. I don’t agree with everything he said but this quote caught my attention. “It ought …
The Teaching Of The Twelve Blog Tour
Tony Jones has a new book out called, The Teaching of the Twelve: Believing and Practicing the Primitive Christianity of the Ancient Didache Community by Paraclete Press. It explore the little known document call the Didache (DID-ah-kay), an ancient text written around the same time as the early Gospels. As part of this blog tour, you can see the specific …
Making God In Our Image
I have to chalk this one up to, “As if we didn’t already know that.” But it helps to have a little scientific research to validate the idea. Ryan Sager offers up a neat little experiment from a guy named Nicholas Epley at the University of Chicago. Ryan describes the experiment below. Epley asked different groups of volunteers to rate …
I Refuse To Believe In That God Too
Nathan Colquhoun is one of my favorite bloggers because he always throws out interesting and provocative stuff. This week he had a quote from someone he knows that was the basis of one of his posts. The quote said: “I refuse to believe in a God who is the primary cause of conflict in the world, preaches racism, sexism, homophobia, …
The Bible In Five Statements Meme
Kay tagged me for an interesting meme. Here are the rules. Summarize the Bible in five statements, the first one word long, the second two, the third three, the fourth four and the last five words long. Or possibly you could do this in descending order. Tag five people. 1. Humanity “realizes” something untrue and dies. 2. Humanity invents religion …
The Central Problem Of Missional
I need your help…and I’m also curious. I’m working on a project and am doing a little research on what it means to be missional. This is totally informal but I’m doing it anyway. Hopefully my question gets to the heart of much of our frustration with what it means to be missional. My question is this: “What does your …
Imagine A World…
[RSS - See Embedded Video] This is my new favorite song. And I have Sarah to thank for it. Matisyahu is a poet in the deepest sense of the word. I love the rhythm he brings to the imaginative idea of reconciliation, lifting up humanity and dignity and dreaming about a world without war. My favorite line is: Sometimes in …
It’s About Justice
The One Campaign has a new video out. My favorite line is, “It’s not about charity. It’s about justice.” Amen to that.
