If you write, compose, play, perform, or create in ANY way.. Take 19 minutes to watch this video of Elizabeth Gilbert, author of ‘Eat Pray Love’ as she muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses. It’s a funny and surprisingly moving talk. What is it about creative ventures that makes us [...]
When the Israel Defense Forces use Twitter to hold a first-ever governmental press conference, things are a-changin’. Not only was the dialogue open to anyone with a Twitter account, but common text abbreviations were used to stay under Twitter’s 140 character limit. For example: Question from peoplesworld: 40 years of military confrontation hasn’t brought security [...]
Over at TheResurgence, the audio and video is up from Seattle’s Text and Context conference. So far, I’ve only been able to watch Matt Chandler’s session titled "Preaching The Gospel From The Center of the Evangelical World". WELL worth the time. As Chandler talks about the effects of pluralism in ministry as we deal [...]
iMonk has a great post titled "The Jesus-shaped Question: Are Christians Like Jesus?". After reading and reflecting on Philippians 3:7-8, he has some great thoughts which may be offensive to some. Something that leaped out at me this morning is this: Christians are conservatives and liberals. Christians are culture warriors and advocates of family [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“We are a company of Christian men. We are also natural loners, who have recognized the dangers of isolation and are determined to escape them, natural wanderers who are finding spiritual peace and prosperity at home, natural liars who are now finding freedom in the truth, natural judges who are learning how to judge [...]
Our friend (and fellow tomcottar(dot)org lurker) Dana Loran has finally entered the blogoshpere with Looking for Manna in the Modern. I’m sure it’ll run the gamut of everything from following Jesus, to cool interior design ideas to the struggles of a missional young woman…check it out.
My wife and I got a call last night from her sister. It seems that her sister’s friend has a teenage daughter who’s cutting herself. And what’s really freakin’ the mom out is the fact that she herself use to cut when she was in high school, but never told anyone. Now that her daughter [...]
What to do? Although lately I’ve been loaded/bombarded with TONS of cool stuff that seem to demand my attention and devotion, I thought I’d pass along a random list of links that have caught my attention lately: YS Underground -cool resources from Marko and company… Hard Music Magazine (I never knew editor Doug Van Pelt [...]