I came across this video of Ken Robinson giving a short presentation at the TEDTalks. It is not only very informative, but very entertaining. His basic thesis is that our education is killing creativity, one of the most important things needed to face our uncertain future. At one point he says, Unless you are prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original. He feels we are educating people out of creativity because mistakes are stigmatized. You... Read more
Over the last year I have received emails from different people suggesting that my critical approach to the organized church arises from my personal experience. In other words, my negative and sometimes traumatic experience with the church as tarnished my perspective. Although I don’t want to claim that I see clearly and that my experiences haven’t embittered me somewhat, I want to argue that I agree that my experiences have influenced the way I see things. How else do we... Read more
Well, after I did the draw of names this morning, I’m happy to announce that the winner is Kathi Sharpe in North Carolina, USA. Congratulations Kathi! I’ll need your mailing address and the cd will be shipped off to you asap. For those of you who mentioned that if you didn’t win you’d like to order the cd? You can download it HERE. Thanks everyone for participating. That was fun! We’ll do another contest again soon. Read more
Hey everyone. On Friday I started a contest which ends tonight, Sunday at midnight Atlantic Time. I’m giving away a free cd. All you have to do is enter a comment on Friday’s post. GO HERE to enter. Have fun. It’s a nice cd that will be shipped to the winner, anywhere in the world, for free! Read more
Hey everyone. Yesterday I started a contest which ends tomorrow night, Sunday at midnight Atlantic Time. I’m giving away a free cd. All you have to do is enter a comment on yesterday’s post. GO HERE to enter. Have fun. It’s a nice cd that will be shipped to the winner, anywhere in the world, for free! Read more
This is an up and coming band from the Halifax area in Nova Scotia Canada. One of them, Aaron Ewer, a friend of mine, is married to a friend of mine who is a daughter of another friend of mine who is a Vineyard pastor too (uh, figure that out!). Anyway, they’ve just come out with a cd. It’s got some really good stuff on it. The one I chose to stream for you today may not be their favorite,... Read more
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