May 2011
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WatchThis is a video for the lead singer of Colour Revolt’s side project, El Obo. The song is called “Vrgn Evl,” and it’s pretty great. I’m still trying to figure out what it means.
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“When language only describes what is, it inevitably becomes conservative. It tends to become ideological, giving permanence to the way things presently are. But language in serious community need not be only descriptive of what is. It can be evocative and creative, calling into being things that do not exist. Such language is the way of promise and of hope. And because such speech calls...
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This summer, I am riding my bicycle from San Diego, CA to Virginia Beach, VA. That is a total of over 3,000 miles.
WHY?!?!?!?!
I’m partnering with Blood:Water Mission as a member of the Ride:Well Tour 2011 in order to raise funds and awareness for clean water projects and health initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa. All along the way, we’ll be advocating for clean water in specific...
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thelovelylyss:
Yes!
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For those of you who wonder why I am riding my bicycle across America this summer, I don’t think I could put it any better than this:
“I contend that a Christian sense of justice is one shaped by the Christian story. And that means that a Christian sense of justice is shaped by love of God and love of others instead of a Western, individualized, and modernist concept of freedom and...
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“Pentecost is both justification and judgment. In this one act at Pentecost (1) the people of God, in God’s act of justifying and making his judgment clear, receive the power of the Holy Spirit to create a community wherein the will of God can be done, and (2) that new community creation is at the same time a judgment on the unjust rulers of this world.”
- Scot McKnight, A...
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