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God's Coming

Please give a warm welcome to first time blogger and smart lady Pamela Chaddock. They say it was a glorious day some two thousand years ago when the Spirit of Truth, the outpoured presence of Jesus, was released upon the world for the edification of all those with ears to hear. It happened then, it’s [...]

Craving

Exploring craving and connection in my Write On Blog after talking to Shauna Niequist on Doug Pagitt Radio: http://dougpagittradio.com/craving

Subvert the Norm: Fate, Heaven & the End Times: Superstitions for Perverts

Here is my full talk on the Perversion of Belief in: Fate, Heaven & End Times

Subvert the norm: remaining vigilant

It is finished! We just had an amazing time at the subvert the norm conference at drury university in Springfield Missouri. There were some well known voices and some new voices that were added to the conference for this second installment. However, this is not an update, I will leave that up to those who [...]

What’s Wrong With the “New Reformed” Movement? Part 2

Soon after I left the New Reformed movement, I took an American Literature class. I was surprised to learn just how much Calvinism had influenced many of the early American classics. One author in particular drew me in: Nathaniel Hawthorne. I don’t know much about Hawthorne, but after I read Young Goodman Brown, it felt [...]

Reclaiming Muchness

Some reflections about reclaiming our muchness after talking to Richard Rohr and Mike Stavlund on Doug Pagitt Radio. http://dougpagittradio.com/reclaiming-muchness

Toward Collective Liberation: Building Successful Social Movements

TCLCover

It wasn’t until recently I realized that I had somehow lost a bunch of digital files off my computer. It was mainly photos and newspaper articles from my activist work when I lived in the San Francisco/Bay Area from the late 90′s to the mid 2000′s. That loss left me feeling sick with the thought [...]

Vocation by Instinct (or what birds buildings nests might tell us about finding meaningful work)

Some thoughts and a poem on intuition and vocation after conversations with Troy Bronsink, Jon Dudley, and David Howard on Doug Pagitt Radio. http://dougpagittradio.com/vocation-by-instinct-or-what-birds-building-nests-might-tell-us-about-finding-meaningful-work

Interview With Jonathan Dudley & David Hayward

Last Thursday we had a chance to speak with Jonathan Dudley about his book BrokenWords.  Victoria and I also spoke with  David Hayward about The Lasting Supper.com Here is the audio: Here is the video:

The truth about meteors

  If it was not for a Russian obsession with ‘windscreen cams’ we westerners would never have seen the seven ton rock, travelling at 17,000 miles per second, explode with the equivalent of five atom bombs of the kind dropped on Hiroshima. Incredibly no body died even though the shock wave travelled all around and [...]