Noteworthy posts of the past month…
Food we’ve made recently
Questions I’ve been asking
A day downtown Toronto
I’m done…
The church is a whore…
Asian Liberation Theology
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I just finished Bob roberts Jr.’s The Multiplying Church.
I hope it’s on the to-read list for every church leader in North America.
It’s not quite as technical as Stetzer’s Planting Missional Church’s, less dense and cerebral than Hirsch’s Forgotten Ways, and a bit more strategic than Cole’s Organic Church (All of which are excellent books btw).
The [...]

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I’m out of school, unemployed, no longer sick, and my life’s starting to get some rhythm back.
Some days I feel like I’m standing at the edge of a cliff, on the verge of jumping into an ocean of uncertainty.  I’ve got to say, I’m a bit scared.
Most days though, I’m so excited about the possibilities [...]

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These are my latest links for April 29th through May 5th:

RELEVANT MAGAZINE :: 7 big questions -
St. Gabriel’s Passionist Parish - Homepage -
Geeks & God -
glocalnet » Blog Archive » The Multiplying Church- Highlight#1- Why Start Churches? -
A biblical theology of the city | Tim Keller -
Newbigin.Net — Online Bibliography And Documents -
UReachToronto -
Friend of [...]

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I was at the new suburbia conference this past week. I’m not sure how true the conference was of its title, it was mostly about Christian community development in an urban setting, gentrification of city slums, and indigenous leadership empowerment.
There was some good material in there. However, I felt some of us gathered [...]

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Find yourself 30 minutes to sit down and do nothing else but watch this.
Smith Family Story from Matthew Singleton on Vimeo.
You can read their blog here after you’re done.
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Turns out the solar crash feed hasn’t been working the last week, I think I just fixed it. You might need to actually visit the site to see the most recent posts.
Hit the icon below if you’re not yet subscribed or if you don’t know what a feed is sign yourself up for google reader [...]

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If you’ve been following Barack Obamamania, you may have seen Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s latest speech. I think he’s quite the communicator and offers some profound insights, but I can’t say I quite agree with a lot of what he says, or the arrogance he sometimes projects.
What caught my attention was his discourse on Black [...]

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These are my links for April 22nd through April 28th:

Video Illustration: Erwin McManus: Have Courage: Rightnow.org -
Welcome to Monkfish Abbey -:- Monkfish Abbey -
Submergent -
Jesus Radicals -
Wix.com - Make free flash websites, Flash layouts, web content
interview - toronto churchplanting -
Multisite Exposed Media | TheResurgence -
Urban Promise presents The Bride: An Urban Musical -
Missional Church Network [...]

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I just finished Anthony Weston’s “How to re-imagine the world”, a wild little book about reawakening radical imagination for social transformation.
Weston’s strengths are definitely in the realm of futuristic/ideation which completely jives with me.
He pitches a few ideas that are aching to be implemented like sports for the homeless, turning military bases into [...]

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