Archive for April, 2008
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Missional Gas Prices?
If you’ve followed me on Twitter lately, you know I’m just about sick of hospitals. As things are getting back to normal, I’m finally able to get back to some reading and blogging.
To start things off, check out this blog on Why I Don’t Do Gas Buy-Downs. How does this shape what we do [...]
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
Twitter Me
In case you haven’t discovered Twitter yet…sign up. And follow me through the Twitter-verse…get updates to your desktop or mobile phone.
Still not sure what it is?
From Wikipedia:
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send "updates" (or "tweets"; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via [...]
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
The Story of Stuff
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P56-zWupDcI[/youtube]
At this year’s SXSW in Austin, the 20-minute animated film The Story of Stuff earned itself an award. It’s actually a GREAT little film…and pretty educational, as well. It explores our capitalist addiction to ’stuff’. As the industry calls it, from ‘extraction’ to ‘disposal’. As I watched in online (from my new MacBook Pro, no [...]
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
A Padded Bra for Your 7-Year-Old?
Seriously?
Supermarket giant from across the pond, TESCO, is evidently retailing a padded bra for girls in the 7 to 8 year old range. This comes, of course, after they were pressured to pull a ‘pole dancing kit’ from their shelves. Sold for £4 overseas and made by Cherokee, the NPSCC is calling it ‘irresponsible’.
Read the [...]
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
webstuff
I’m beginning to understand why God is not bound by time– there’s just not enough of it lying around to get everything done. As a result, there are lots of interesting things bouncing around my head this morning.
The beginnings of an interesting discussion on Finally Feminist.
John Bishop (video) on staying focused on Jesus and [...]
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
Quotable Monday, 04.21.2008
"Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous."
-Albert Einstein
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Better Days…
I’ve cried for a week now.
Last August, DaNetta Hagerman, a dear friend ,youthworker, and mother, passed away in a fatal car accident. Last Thursday morning, her husband, Larry, was involved in an accident at work and suffered fatal head wounds. After he was Care Flighted to the ER and rushed into emergency neurosurgery all we [...]
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Quotable Monday: 04.07.2008
"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the street. "
–Steven Hawking, wicked smart research pysicist (primarily in theoretical cosmolgy and quantum gravity)
Funny on a couple of levels. First, the older I get (I am 41 today), the less [...]
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Photo Phriday: 4.4.2008
The boys hanging with the dolphins a couple of weeks ago in San Antonio…
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
In Oprah, We Trust (Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid)
I’ve tried to sit in her online classroom a couple of times, but can’t get in. It’s way too packed and our connection speed is way too slow… Maybe someone who’s gotten in can share some experience here. I don’t know anyone who didn’t see this coming, but nevertheless, here’s the video.