Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse (the end of humankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt.)

If you liked that post, check out…They sold their souls for Rock & Roll? by Lon on August 8th, 2005Multiethnicing a church… by [...]

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Within the emerging church over the past decade there has been a return to the use of icons, images, and rituals to help point people to God.
After a long exodus of protestants sanitizing their churches and abandoning everything but the word of God, Church’s have been creating a more healthy, more tangible and more experiential [...]

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Without a doubt, one of the biggest draws to my site via search engines has been the Rob Bell resources page.
Along the theme of thanking my readers, and thanks also to some digging and networking, I think I’ve got something many of you might be interested in.
Contrary to popular legend, Rob Bell did not kick [...]

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I’ve been doing some thinking recently… (I do my best thinking with my Optimus Prime helmet on, video here).
There are so many more people around the world who read my blog than people I connect with regularly in person.
I’m guessing part of this is because if you’re in my regular circles, well, we can catch [...]

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Several years ago I carved out a wooden cross and burnt our names on it declaring that we were joined by Christ.
Not long after, I dropped it and broke it… and I’m the piece that broke off.
How incredibly disturbing.
Today I’m reminded that I’m damned… in every way you can think of it.
doomed, lost, lost forever, [...]

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Some thoughts I jotted down while cross-boarder shopping and waiting in the dreaded cheesecake factory lines.
like rats in a cage
or mice in a maze
wherever the sales sign lead
I go where they say to go
joyfully letting this wallet bleed
what a steal
we beat the system, got a better deal
got something shiny, something new
by trading in the old
who [...]

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I think it’s been about six-months since I’ve began dabbling in blogging via wordpress. I must say that it’s been frustrating at times figuring out how things work since I’m not as technically savvy as I thought I was.
Overall, thought it’s not all perfect, I think the learning curve has finally leveled out and [...]

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I just recently put down Will & Lisa Samson’s “Justice in the Burbs“. They remind me that
 
The suburbs in many ways are…
 

“…an illusion of the American dream - where no one is needy, where there is a chicken in every pot, and a car in every garage…
 
“… where planned developments control who comes near, and [...]

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Our babysitter had to push back her commitment to us till January, so I’m hanging full-time with my daughter till then while Yvz has returned to work.
I can’t quite imagine having a more blessed life. It’s been a week of seeing Stellar try new foods and take further steps in life. I’ve been [...]

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It always feels odd when people I interact with give me these glowing remarks about who I am and something I’ve just done. The pervading thought in my mind is often how the substance of those comments are so very temporal.
I’ve likely been far better and been far worse, but people gauge you based [...]

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