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Archive for July, 2008
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008Note to NASS workshop attendees, you can download similar PowerPoints from today’s sessions at the links below. + “Not the Future: Empowering Youth Leaders in Schools” (Powerpoint) and “Embrace the Mess: Why Youth Must Lead Now” (article) + “Mooks, Midriffs, Myspace and More: Engaging Plugged in Youth” (Powerpoint, audio, video, source materials, and more) + [...]
From the “if it looks like a rat and smells like a rat” files
Thursday, July 31st, 2008With record gas prices seemingly every week, it should come as no surprise that Exxon Mobil made nearly $1,500 per second in its largest quarterly profit in US history, reported today. Even less surprising, this is the fourth consecutive year in which Exxon has recorded the highest quarterly profit in US history. Next time a [...]
Last time I was in Denver
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008More like this, from Rocky Mountain National Park.
Wednesday Weekly Webcast
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008Famous Failures If you’ve never failed, you’ve never lived. Life = Risk. A short (1:16), but poignant Webcast this week. HT: Ryan K.
Off to Renew Hope
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008My plane should be taking off from JFK to Denver as this posts. I’m off to the National Association of Street Schools annual conference to present three workshops Thursday and the Friday morning keynote. Funny thing is, I didn’t realize until last night that the conference theme is a recent preaching favorite: Jeremiah 29:11. Email [...]
Family Flickr Fun
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008This Weekend Friday: Pantoja’s New York Debut @ Creole A Latin pop band featuring two of my cousins, Joshua and Jesse Pantoja, live from la isla de encanta Puerto Rico. Full set (38 pics) Saturday: Fishing NY’s Harbor with Judah and Willie A half day of fluke fishing on board the Sea Queen VII led [...]
Joining the Khorus of Kudos for the Dark Knight
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008Finally, a film that lives up to the hype. Beware: it lives up to its PG-13 rating. I’m glad I left Judah at home for this one.
Cornell West on Music and Justice (& Child Sex Trafficking)
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008“Music is about helping folk, but it helps them by getting them to dance. Getting them to move. Getting them to think. Getting them to reflect. Getting them to be themselves, to somehow break out of the conventional self that they are. … We love those folk who are enslaved in Africa, and Asia, and [...]
30,000 Watts, 26 Rap Ministries, 8 Hours for 1 God
Monday, July 28th, 2008More info here.
The shrink said blog
Friday, July 25th, 2008I always knew this thing had therapeutic affects. Now the mental health world seems to agree. Why do people write confessional blogs? It’s a creative outlet. It’s a forum to vent. … To mental-health experts, though, it’s more than that: a blog is medicine. Psychiatrists are starting to tout the therapeutic power of blogging, and [...]
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