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I am a community facilitator, avid gardener, giddy homebrewer, and eclectic writer. One of my favorite things is reading in a hammock on a sunny day with a cool beer beside me. I enjoy pruning and digging and watching things grow.....

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Four Monks, One Girlfriend, and Eight Books

Ahh, classes are done.  I turned in several papers this week, took a test yesterday, and am now finished with my third term at Multnomah Biblical Seminary.  I read over 3000 pages (finishing...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:50:00 GMT

Worshipping Mammon....

Concluding article on my casual study of "Honoring & Confronting the Powers" over at OrganicJesus.org is up.Be sure to check it out below (and don't worry, we'll be getting into some post-carbon o...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 10:49:00 GMT

New blog -- www.OrganicJesus.org!

Exciting announcement -- I'm helping found a new group blog with my friend Scott Andreas, who normally blogs at www.paradoxica.net.  Think, "Brian McLaren and Shane Claiborne meets Peak Oil."&nbs...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:22:00 GMT

An Apologetic of Works

An Apologetic of WorksI am reading "The Gospel in a Pluralist Society" by Lesslie Newbigin these days, and he's drudging quite laboriously (if also eloquently) through the whole absolutism versus rela...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 22:49:00 GMT

Killing, dying, and where we give the glory

When someone kills for what they believe in, and live, we call them a hero. When someone kills for what they believe in, and dies, we say they made "the ultimate sacrifice." When someone refuses to ...
Posted by on Sat, 17 Jun 2006 23:54:00 GMT

... because of Nina's "tag"

Ok, here's the deal. First, I write 6 weird habits/interesting things about myself, then I tag 6 people. They have to write a blog with 6 weird things about them. So here it goes.1. I used to have a G...
Posted by on Wed, 31 May 2006 16:58:00 GMT

Gas prices: "The fault, Dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves."

On Tuesday, President Bush "announced that the oil companies that had borrowed crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve would not have to replace it until fall.  For the last four months, ...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 08:31:00 GMT

Woe is the Garden!

Woe is the Garden! And to think I was so excited that I would get to garden at the T-House this summer. Well, it turns out that was a load of crap. Matt and I leave at 10:20 this morning to the gar...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 16:11:00 GMT

State of the Union: Fear and Loathing in Iraq

It's interesting how big of a space there was in President Bush's speech tonight between his talk about Iraq and then stating that "America is addicted to oil."  Does he not expect us to make the...
Posted by on Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:07:00 GMT