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The Voice We Haven’t Heard
Thursday, August 27th, 2009It feels trite to even say this, but Bono’s prophetic voice speaks again, this time to those of us facilitating the ONLY student led student leadership conference in NYC this September. Every generation gets a chance to change the world Pity the nation that won’t listen to your boys and girls Cos the sweetest melody [...]
TLS09: Bono and Bill
Monday, August 17th, 2009Extreme Poverty and AIDS Bill Hybels interview with Bono, featuring testimonies from pastors throughout Willow Creek Leadership Summit 2009 (My notes below were taken real time via Twitter. Read them from the bottom up.) # Hybels: we need compassion AND justice to end stupid, extreme poverty in this generation. #tls094:54 PM Aug 7th from twidroid [...]
Weekly Webcast
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009America’s Song As performed on Oprah; featuring will.i.am, Faith Hill, Seal, Mary J. Blige, and Bono Free download until 10pm EST Thursday night. HT: DJ Chuang (via Twitter)
Miscellanous Election Thoughts
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008+ John Ortberg’s “Lessons from the Election: Seven Deadly Sins of Evangelicals in Politics“: I want to propose the “Seven Deadly Sins of Evangelicals and Politics.” You may have a few of your own to add. But the spirit of such lists in the past was not to add to our store of information but [...]
On the Poor among U.S.
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008“It is extraordinary to me that you can find $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire G8 can’t find $25 billion to save 25,000 children who die every day of preventable treatable disease and hunger. That’s mad, that is mad.” – Bono + Jordon Cooper reflects on the impact, or lack thereof, of [...]
Devotions with Bono …
Friday, September 14th, 2007… this morning, in bumper- to-bumper traffic on the BQE. First, the context. I have a mix CD of U2 music in my car that my son loves. Wednesday, he asked me to play Track 9, his “favorite song” (“Pride in the Name of Love”) for his friend Chris which is how the CD ended [...]
“God is in the slums, where the poor play house”
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007On March 2, Bono opened for me at Shift. Seriously. A ten-minute version of this talk he gave last year at the Leadership Summit set up “Full Contact Faith.” Later that night, Bono accepted the NAACP Chairman’s Award. Here’s what he said to the NAACP. If you’re interested in receiving a FREE copy of the [...]
Willowcreek, Part 4
Friday, August 11th, 2006Hybels’ response to Bono: An appeal re. AIDS The church cannot sit idly by and rationalize nonengagement to the global AIDS pandemic. Every church MUST do something. We will give an account for how we respond to AIDS. What can a church do? 1. Educate selves. Creates urgency. 2. Engage in the efforts to alleviate [...]
You gotta love him
Wednesday, June 1st, 2005(Well, maybe you won’t, but …) Bono’s making waves for kind words about President Bush and — gasp! — Senator Jesse Helms. It takes courage for any celebrity, but especially one of the world’s biggest rock stars and its most outspoken activist, to speak kindly about archconservatives like W and Helms. But he manages to [...]