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Shema Community’s EngaGE
Lammert has put together a great teaser video on the Shema engaGE week. Similar to a Serve the City project, engaGE will provide people from all over, and of all types, to plug into the city of Geneva through practical service. Make sure to check out this website to register in the next few days [...]
U2 Rocks Cannes Film Festival
U2 played a quick conert in Cannes this afternoon for the release of thier ’3D’ video. Supposedly, its amazing. But hey, when you’ve seen them live and close…there is not much better! Read more here. enjoy….jc Send to Facebook
Literary Meme- Just for fun
Thanks Mike. Now I’ve done it, and well, maybe this will teach us: a quote about a quote! Here’s how it works: 1. Grab the nearest book 2. Open it to page 161 3. Find the fifth full sentence 4. Post the text along with these instructions “We weren’t used to people checking our quotes, [...]
A New Shema Series and More
In the next few weeks we’ll be starting a new series at Shema which we feel has some pretty important implications for how we do life with others in Geneva. Lammert has been blogging about them here a little and you can follow the Shema blog as well. I’d also like to add this song [...]
Shema Community and Bono…
Shema last night went great. We had a great start to our series on ‘The Open Secret’. YOu can see some of what we explored here on the Shema blog. We’ll be updating it much more frequently in the coming weeks with thoughts and some reflections on Bible readings. You’ll also see a link to [...]
A tribute to bono…
While many people out there acknowlege that Bono is out to save the world as a rock star, or at least to try to make it a better place. A few people are really trying immortalize him..for better and worse. Here is a tribute video that someone did. I put this on here because a [...]
Today, Australia became an interesting place…thanks to globalization
So lets see how many Australians, Americans, or English laugh… Did you know on this day in history in the year 1788, the first convicts arrived in Australia from the UK? It’s true. Speaking of globalization, did you also know that the Zimbabwe dollar has an expiration date and that McDonalds now serves over 54 [...]
“Drown me out…drown me out”
Over the course of the last three days I have been doing recruitment at the Urbana conference in Illinois. I have been very pleasantly surprised by the amount of justice and enviromental talk that has been going on. And while I came into the conference excited about recruitment, but not sure what to expect about [...]
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 [...]
A link that links to Bono
Mike Todd likes U2 and Bono about as much as I do. And, he is usually a little more political on his blog than I am. Check him out! Send to Facebook
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