Archive for January, 2009
Thursdays are for Fr. Rohr
(HT: google for Fr. Richard Rohr) For the last couple of years, I’ve done a Tuesday is for Thomas (Merton). It’s time for a little change. I’m moving from one good writer/thinker/spiritual director to another. From Merton, to Rohr. While I know that there is a whole host of readers who are familiar with Rohr, [...]
Kiva in 2009
Josh Brown has talked about Kiva for years. Even before Oprah talked about Kiva, Josh was talking about them. Now, after meeting Emory alum Kenneth Cole, and trying to get a podcast episode with him about his Awearness project, he is talking about Kiva. If you don’t know about Kiva, now is a time to [...]
Just thinking
When choosing to sojourn in the way of Jesus, the Christ of faith, we have chores to do and we have things which just make sense to take up. The challenge is knowing which is which, where is where and how to take up the responsibility and opportunity of them both in the contexts that [...]
A New Chance in the New Year
In 2009 it is in entirely possible that for one of the first times in modern history, people around the world will be faced with the impossible sustainability of modern consumption. For many people, the shift in the tides of the economy have brought not only genuine financial hardship, but some essential questions about life [...]
Tuesday is for Thomas…one last time!
For the last bit of time, I’ve been reading and following along with Fr. Merton, passing along tid-bits of inspiration to those of you checking the rss feed here. After today, I’m retiring this feature and will be adding the inspiration of another person, who shall remain nameless until Thursday. But for now, one last [...]
Dr. Eboo Patel Podcast is up!
I mentioned the other day a podcast with Eboo. You can download our from the podcast here. We’ll have another one up with him in just a little while about his book Acts of Faith. You can also read his most recent comments on the situation in Gaza here. Also, in case you missed it, [...]
The Pragmatics of Belief in Hell
I just saw a very interesting article posted at Tony J’s blog at beliefnet and highly recommend you head over there and check it out. I’ll post a bot of it here, but for the rest of the article, you’ll have to do the right thing, and check out Tony’s blog at belief net! The [...]
The Dude in Dissertation?
Here is an article that was recently posted on Dissertations done on The Big Lebowski. Awesome. Really. JC Send to Facebook
Diversity Day Training!
In reflection, my post from a couplew of days ago was quite serious. It needed to be and still needs to be reflected upon; however, in order to add a different a comedic perpective on the “ignorant” actions of the D-ville peeps, I found this to be a pretty funny video. I’m you Office fans [...]
Happy New Year!
Just a quick post to thank all of you who have read and subcribed to this blog over the last few years. Over the course of its short life, you’ve taken quite a few journeys with me around the globe and for this I’m very very thankful! 2009 promises to be a very interesting and [...]
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