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Matthew

I'm tired of old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in

About Me

They seem always to be walking. As with all nomads, if you don't keep walking, you die--so you figure out how to keep walking.

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My Interests

La Vie Boheme!

I'd like to meet:

fellow revolutionaries

Music:

Damien Rice, Derek Webb, Enter the Worship Circle, The Psalters, Jack Johnson, Sufjan Stevens, Elliott Smith, Owen, Azure Ray, Kings of Leon, Fionn Regan, Jose Gonzalaz, Rocky Votolato, and that rag-tag gypsy band you hear on the corner of Broadway and 5th.

Movies:

The Great Debaters, Broke-down Palace, White Squall, Pan's Labyrinth, Seven Years in Tibet, Finding Neverland, The Royal Tennenbaums, Crash, Bobby and Beyond Borders.

Television:

Lost

Books:

Peter Pan, The Wheel of Time Series, Red and Blue God; Black and Blue Church, God's Politics, Traveling Mercies, The New Atheist Crusade and the Quest for their Unholy Grail, Simple Christianity, Everything Must Change and Blue Like Jazz.

Heroes:

Jesus Christ
Anne Rice
Jim Wallis

My Blog

Revival Fire is Falling

2 Corinthians 12:9-10 -- But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's...
Posted by Matthew on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:39:00 PST

....on abortion

This is an excerpt from the book "Red and Blue God; Black and Blue Church" by Becky Garrison.Choices? What Choices?The reasons why women choose to have abortions are as individual as the women themsel...
Posted by Matthew on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 05:53:00 PST

....on voting

As the year 2007 draws to an end, I remain contemplative of the changes that will be taking place in approximately one year from now. The biggest change that I foresee is that there will be a new Pre...
Posted by Matthew on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 08:29:00 PST

Terrorism

"Terrorism happens around us everyday and no one notices a thing until something detonates"As I write this my heart is heavy and my mind is racing through events that I have witnessed in my lifetime t...
Posted by Matthew on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:36:00 PST

Unmasked II

I received some input that I need to elaborate on what I mean by unmasking, so I will give you a taste of what I have experienced in this process. Before I was a follower of Christ, I was an extreme l...
Posted by Matthew on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:37:00 PST

Unmasked

A great awakening of sorts.The Church must unmask or we are going to drown in our silence.I was recently reunited with a dear friend of mine, Amber Dunnavant, whom I am was once very close with and ou...
Posted by Matthew on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:54:00 PST

I am a whore

Its been a long time since I blogged but I heard a song today (that is now on my profile) that has me longing to get out whats in my heart. I am Gomer. I have committed adultry and I continue to do so...
Posted by Matthew on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 01:01:00 PST

[nonviolence] as a way of life

Nonviolence as a way of life So many things have been mulling around in my mind since a deep conversation I had this past June. I cannot believe that it has been almost a year since the Lord had me ...
Posted by Matthew on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:25:00 PST

What the hell is going on with me?

I am quite confused right now.Frustration has made it very difficult to "be anxious about nothing but pray about everything."   I have noticed since I've been more outspoken about my political b...
Posted by Matthew on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:08:00 PST

A queer in the church

"We know we are in the end times with all those queers in the Church" She spoke with spite spitting out of her simpleminded mouth"All those queers in the pulpit!"Her eyes raged with anger. I thought t...
Posted by Matthew on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 08:39:00 PST