MLK Day and My Hopes for Haiti

Here are links to other MLK Days when I have posted.
Today, rather than reflect too much on MLK, or the dreams that remain to be completed for civil rights in America, I’d much rather just share a couple of hopes that I have for the people and situation in Haiti. Honestly, its too tragic not [...]

Is it easy being green?

The Center for American Progress has created a space to discuss the simplicity of being green. You can check out all the articles here.
How about you? Do you find choosing to be green important? Necessary? Something that you have to make an extra effort at doing? What are some of your tips or thoughts on [...]

Sallie McFague: The World as God’s Body

Here is an article I had to do comparing two articles. One by Sallie McFague, the other by Kathryn Tanner. Both articles were written under the title “Is God in charge?”
Sallie McFague: God’s Body, Humanity’s Home and Responsibility
Sallie McFague’s account of God’s relationship to the world presents a more effective stimulus to ecologically responsible behavior [...]

Did Obama cost America the Olympics?

So as everyone knows, I’m an Obama fan. Yet those that I deeply like, I also love to critique. My question is: did Obama’s prominent pulling for the Olympics to come to Chicago cost Chicago the bid or, did it simply demonstrate how close we are to living in a post-American world?
My sense is that [...]

The New Biology: Where Mind and Matter Meet

Here is Bruce Lipton Part Two.
Again, I hope you are enjoying this as much as I am. I find myself having to process it a few times over in order to begin thinking about the hidden connections that ensue. But, they are there.
Check out these earlier posts on similar topics. Lipton Part One. The [...]

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 [...]

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, in [...]

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 special [...]

Genesis: A New Life

As many of you will be well aware, I’ve been volunteering at Genesis throughout this semester. For my colleagues and I, we’re going to remain involved for at least another 6 months or so (at least that is how long our placement is:).
Just this week, as if out of nowhere, we discovered this video of [...]

Blog Action Day: Poverty

Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. Our aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion.
In lieu of blog action day, I re-post the following videos from earlier blogs:
Miniature Earth:

Bono:

Here is a [...]