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Song for the Weekend: The Be Good Tanyas

Last weekend, I encouraged you to be a friend with the Ray Lamontagne song, “Let It Be Me.”  This weekend, with the help of The Be Good Tanyas, I want us to hear these words:  Be authentic.  Be vulnerable.  Be … well, a Human Thing!
You’re so busy frontin’
Confusin’ courage and acting
Great lines!  Cool song.  Enjoy [...]

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My Email Manifesto, Or “How Email Will No Longer Rule My Life!”

This is probably a post best suited for a website dedicated to workplace management, GTD, and personal productivity, but I’m going to post it here as my response to the email culture that I’ve been living in for way too long.
Here’s the problem:  The demands on time and attention are infinite.  There seems to be [...]

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Reflections on Baseball (The Counter-Cultural Sport)

Watching the Major League Baseball playoffs and now the World Series has led me to reflect on the game.  According to a recent Harris Interactive Poll, in the last 25 years, baseball has fallen off dramatically in popularity among other sports.  It gets crushed by the National Football League and College Football is close behind [...]

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Song for the Weekend: Ray Lamontagne

The title of the song is “Let It Be Me.”  If you know Ray Lamontagne’s music, I don’t have to tell you about the amazing, silky voice; if you’ve not yet discovered him, do it – now!!
Hope this inspires you to be a friend to someone this weekend!

You can watch a live recording here.

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Song for the Weekend: Breathe Deep

Time for a (folk-driven) invitation to breathe.
Really breathe!

Any day with a Lost Dogs song is a better day …!

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The Story of Stuff

In the course of preparing for an upcoming sermon series on consumerism in our culture, I discovered this fantastic, if not haunting, video produced by Free Range Studios.  I do not purchase or use consumer products the same way after watching this video.  I don’t watch television the same after watching this video.  I hope [...]

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A Visual Representation of Civil Religion

Part of me can’t believe this image exists (ht Matt Stone), but part of me knows this is the state of “Christianity” in America — American-ianity.
The peasant carpenter Messiah of the Bible has been co-opted by a middle-class religious mechanism.  The rebel-Jesus has been neutered and propped up as a chaplain/endorser/cheer-leader for a nationalist agenda [...]

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Against Consumerism

I’ve been reading and researching for a series of messages I hope to give in November – they will be under the loose heading of, “Against Consumerism.”  I believe consumerism is the chief competitor for our allegiance in the culture of the U.S.  So, in the spirit of the early church thinkers and writers, who [...]

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