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Josh

jlhosler

About Me

www.joshhosler.biz ... Husband, dad, church youth group leader, community builder, music nerd, cat person, impeccable speller, not-so-good handyman. And I pick my Top 24 friends the only fair way: they're the people I've known the longest! (Well, OK, Barack Obama is an expection. Thank you, Mike Adams, for pointing out my inconsistency.)

My Interests

Pop music, for better or worse ... Classical music, although there's too much to ever learn about it all ... Theology and religion ... many other things.

I'd like to meet:

Everybody. Well, nearly everybody.

Music:

XTC, Jellyfish, Sixpence None the Richer, Pink Floyd, every top 40 hit of the past 35+ years.

Movies:

Too many to name! But Fiddler on the Roof tends to rise to the top.

Television:

Buffy!!!!! ... My So-Called Life ... How I Met Your Mother ... The Simpsons ... Battlestar Galactica ... Veronica Mars, until it jumped the shark.

Books:

Lately? Lots and lots of books about discernment and call.

Heroes:

Jesus ... not the smiting Jesus or the sentimental Jesus, both of which have been trademarked by the Bush administration. Rather, the rebel Jesus who would get the same treatment today as he did then. Therefore, it follows that secondary heroes include Martin Luther King, Jr. and Archbishop Oscar Romero.

My Blog

Facebook has a blog app!

Well, friends, I think I'm done writing here. Facebook has a blog app, and it's not bad. I've switched over.I'll keep my MySpace account for now, pending a mass exodus of my friends. ;)...
Posted by Josh on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:25:00 PST

Holy Week is coming ...

... and here's my Lent and Holy Week music mix! Enjoy. Lent Suite 1: Ashes Indigo Girls - Closer to FineXTC - Deliver Us from the ElementsSufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski DaySimon & Garf...
Posted by Josh on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:47:00 PST

Believing In

BELIEVING INsermon preached at St. Thomas Episcopal Churchby Josh Hosler, Associate for Christian FormationLent 2A: February 17, 2008Well, we're really in the thick of Lent now, as evidenced by the fr...
Posted by Josh on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:20:00 PST

I’m addicted to this website

http://www.electoral-vote.com/This is a great site! Very informative, gives lots of numbers, and highly addictive. Today it's running some great text on what we've learned from each of the presidentia...
Posted by Josh on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 07:16:00 PST

Consecration sermon

THE CONSECRATION OF THE RT. REV. JEFFREY D. LEEFebruary 2, 2008sermon given for the Diocese of ChicagoI once knew a Christian who had an opportunity to hear a speech by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. It tur...
Posted by Josh on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:07:00 PST

To Bear the Beams of Love

TO BEAR THE BEAMS OF LOVEsermon preached at St. Thomas Episcopal Churchby Josh Hosler, Associate for Christian FormationEpiphany 3A: January 27, 2008The English poet William Blake wrote: "We are put o...
Posted by Josh on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:02:00 PST

Is This Really My Life? (sermon for 4 Advent)

IS THIS REALLY MY LIFE?sermon preached at St. Thomas Episcopal Churchby Josh Hosler, Associate for Christian FormationAdvent 4A: December 23, 2007This year, in anticipation of the pre-Halloween onslau...
Posted by Josh on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:23:00 PST

Sarah

Sarah's latest expression:"I don't IS tired! I don't IS sleepy!"
Posted by Josh on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:01:00 PST

Advent

Ah, Advent -- the season marked by the four Sundays preceding Christmas, the season of waiting and expectation. This is my Advent playlist.Advent Suite 1: EschatonR.E.M. - It's the End of the World as...
Posted by Josh on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:58:00 PST

What is the Good News?

At one point during last month's Diocesan Convention, I found myself in a circle of youth and young adults from all over Western Washington. Our bishops had given us a question to discuss: "Who is God...
Posted by Josh on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:59:00 PST