I know that there are a ton of Lent blogs and individual post floating around out there on the interweb and I’m quite late on the scene. But for those of you who are really into it I thought I’d share something COTA is doing. I’m one of a handful of writers on a...
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Archive for February, 2007
another lent thing…
questions of Lent
my best friend in the whole world, josh, has written a short piece about the practice of fasting for Lent. his questions, are the ones that i think all of us ask at some point in our lives, or maybe even every year as this time approaches. i encourage everyone to go leave him...
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good thoughts on 'bad'
i found an interesting post by a classmate of mine that is from the kansas city area, where i lived for a few years and developed many good friendships and connections. go read a rusty return to blogging
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100.2
100.2 indicates the temperature of my body at 8am. i started feeling the cold/flu coming on friday afternoon and it has just gotten worse every day. so what does this mean for me for the weekend. i’ve watched a lot of sports, college basketball, nfl pro bowl, and today nba basketball. i also watched...
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beauty in the breakdown
this is totally out of the ordinary for me to post this many times in such a short period of time, but then again the liturgy i’m in right now is no ordinary liturgy. the texts tonight speak of emptiness, loss of identity, along with god’s redemption in the midst of that. during our...
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manifesto
i’m not usually a big fan of putting my writing “out there” for others to read, for insecurities that i won’t go into. with that first disclaimer out of the way here is a manifesto i had to write for a class called essential community. now onto my next disclaimer through which, if you...
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Dialogue
I have been reading a series of comments between Matt, a friend of mine and fellow Mars Hill student, and the well educated and thoughtful Austin Cline of about.com. Austin does some work in the area of digital design, and also some study and writing in the area of Atheism and Agnosticism. Here’s a...
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experience music
Marie and I have lived in Seattle for a little over a year and a half now, and have yet to fully experience Seattle, both commercially and underground for lack of good terminology. Tonight though, thanks to 1st Thursdays we were finally able to check the Experience Music Project. EMP costs an insane amount...
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recommendation
I just finished re:reading the introduction to Soul Making by Alan Jones. I had to read this book last semester for a class, and then this semester I had to read the introduction for a course called “Essential Community.” At the end of my course last term the professor, Roy Barsness, commented that he...
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