America’s Enduring Injustice

It’s always weird coming back to the US. I’m not sure why, but I always see and experience the place differently upon returning. Sometimes its good, and others its bad.
Just yesterday I had one of those good experiences. While seeing students and leaders at the campus of Seattle Pacific University I was gifted the opportunity [...]

Human Version 2.0

Alan Mann has posted an interesting conversation piece on Jason Clark’s blog. Jason does a great job of inviting others to participate on his site. Alan, along with Paul Mayers generally host pretty good conversations. If you don’t know them, you should!
Be sure to check out these thoughts on Human version 2.0. Wierd….but interesting theological, [...]

Brian McLaren: We Need a New National Mission Statement (Meditations on the Apartheid Museum Part 2)

Here is part two of a few meditations Brian McLaren has done lately. You can find part one here. The links out of the document are mine, not Brian’s.
What if some of us began a constructive national dialogue, post-political in the sense that it occurs on a level higher and deeper than the mid-range of [...]

A few banners and links while i’m at it…

Here are a couple of interesting things going on….Finding these conversations fun to follow!

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A reason for the silence

Sorry to have fallen off the earth…i haven’t, but i have been traveling. I’ve just arrived in Seattle, Washington for the next three days from California where I’ve been visiting with some new friends, and potential future team members for Geneva. I’ll leave here friday for Denver. Will hope to be back online more soon! [...]

Introducing Mike Todd

Mike Todd has been posting several things on his blog of which i have found of great interest as of late. His blog, entitled Waving or Drowning? frequently keeps me up to speed on issues of social justice, Christian community, and recently, the ways in which Newsweek magazine changes it communication priorities for each region. [...]

Thinking about things to come…and plotting goodness

Last night Laura and I went to a Geneva pre-screening of the movie An Inconvenient Truth. It was quite compelling. Over the course of an hour and forty-five minutes, sitting in a packed movie theatre, we watched as the story of climate change was unveiled before our eyes. Sure, I’ve been in conversations with others [...]

Christianity and the “Pride of Power”

By Brian McLaren as posted on Jim Wallis’ blog.
I recently came across this quote from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, from his sermon on 2 Corinthians 12:9:
“Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness and pride of power and with its plea for the weak. Christians are doing too little to make these points clear [...]

Bono and (RED) Keep on Giving

UPDATE From the Kaiser Network
Product RED, a project created by Irish musician Bono and Bobby Shriver that aims to raise money for the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria by donating a portion of profits from a range of branded products, plans to partner with five additional corporations in the next few weeks, [...]

Generations collide, love is experienced!

Just yesterday I was having a conversation with a group of youth leaders and parents here in Geneva. During the conversation, we had an interesting discussion on the internet, their children’s obsession with it, the way parent’s can “control” or understand better their young people’s connection-centered existence. It was an interesting conversation which led me [...]