“I can’t stand your religious meetings. I’m fed up with your conferences and conventions. I want nothing to do with your religion projects, your pretentious slogans and goals. I’m sick of your fund-raising schemes, your public relations and image making. I’ve had all I can take of your noisy ego-music. When was the last time [...]

It’s been seven years since the War in Iraq began. Seven years. 4704 coalition soldiers have died in those seven years and there’s no telling how many Iraqi soldiers and innocent civilians have died. Current estimates are between 95,000 and 105,000. Over at Sojo.net Shane Claiborne shares some of his experience of taking part in [...]

NPR shared a memorial about Donald Bordelon this morning. A man reporters met while covering the tragedy in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Each time we called — before Mardi Gras, on Thanksgiving, on Katrina’s anniversaries — Donald and Colleen were at home. Only once did we speak with them when they were out of [...]

In September, I publicly thanked Ken Silva, on my blog, for his two plugs for our podcast. I just realized I never took the chance to actually thank him here on the podcast site as well. I know we won’t always see eye-to-eye with Ken, or many others. Even the three of us who host [...]

Telling stories is what our podcast is about. Shaun Groves offers a great challenge related to the stories we tell from our online and offline relationships… Spend one day in front of a screen. Get and make lots of phone calls, check your e-mail, blog, update your Facebook page, send some tweets, read some blog [...]

One of our goals this year is to read through the Bible. Thomas, Stewart and I are both working on this – hopefully I’ll do better on this than the weight challenge. I was challenged to do this once when I was in high school by a former youth pastor who asked us the question, [...]

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From Pagan Christianity?: “The Primitive Church had no New Testament, not thoughtout theology, no stereotyped traditions. The men who took Christianity to the Gentile world had no special training, only a great experience – in which ‘all maxims and philosophies were reduced to the simple task of walking in the light since the light had [...]

Thought I’d share this with the Something Beautiful community. This has become a bit of a personal creed for me. Not as strong as the Apostles Creed or other important creeds of our faith – but it’s something that’s begun to drive me and lead me each day (especially at work). imagine if suddenly… rather [...]