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Archive for August, 2006
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Saturday, August 5th, 2006Peace + Love + Justice + Fiesta Latino churches have overnight found themselves surrounded by new middle-class ‘neighbors’ right in the barrio, while many of their members have been forced to move away from the communities where they have grown up all of their lives–because the can no longer afford to live there. The pastors [...]
Finally got me a MAC!
Friday, August 4th, 2006MacBook Pro 15″ Blogging tonight from it in fact! Now I can officially retire my Dell Inspiron to the bottom of the Hudson River. Or, as a friend suggested, conduct a ritual burning of some kind. Either way, what a relief to have a reliable computer again. Much love to the donors who made it [...]
Biblical Compassion: Suffering Together
Friday, August 4th, 2006… if we open up those Bibles the meaning of “compassion” becomes clear; after all, Hebrew and Greek words commonly translated as “compassion” are used over eighty times in the Bible. Their most frequent use is not as an isolated noun but as the culmination of a process. Repeatedly, in Judges and other books, the [...]
Big Pun
Friday, August 4th, 2006Courtesy of Matt’s mom: “Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him… (Oh, man, this is so bad, it’s [...]
I miss Judah
Friday, August 4th, 2006With me in Baltimore with the Stevens clan and Judah in Massachusetts with the cousins, I’m suffering withdrawal. Here’s JJ with Jacob Stevens a couple of weeks ago on a New York subway.
Scars
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006My friend and ministry partner sent the following email this morning. Saturday marks the one year anniversary since his son Caleb Stevens died tragically in a car accident during Chain Reaction. Please keep Matt and Katy and their boys Joshua, Micah, and Jacob in your prayers this weekend. ______________________ This Saturday will mark one year [...]
New York is M-E-L-T-I-N-G
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006Q: What is New York’s latest, greatest weight loss craze? A: Walk outside. It’s a friggin’ sauna out there! Open any door and instantly pounds start melting away.
No mystery why Capitalism has failed there
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006Guy Kawasaki links to a World Bank report called Doing Business in 2006: Creating Jobs, described as: … the third in a series of annual reports investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. New quantitative indicators on business regulations and their enforcement can be compared across 155 countriesâ€â€from Afghanistan to [...]
A reminder to crucify the flesh daily
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006Back when the Passion of the Christ movie was being lauded as the “greatest evangelistic tool of all time,” I wrote of the film’s director, Mel Gibson: “Mel earned the right to make his movie, and the respect of his would-be audience, because for the prior 25 years, as an actor and director he has [...]
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