2009

U2 Amazing Grace

I took my wife to her first U2 concert yesterday. (Confession: Our last concert together was Bon Jovi – filled with 40 year old women in jeans and bandannas – someone gave us free tickets). U2 rocked the house. I find there’s a phenomenal number of Christians who love U2. My excuse is I was [...]

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Suspended Space

What do you think?

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Drop Like Stars – Book Review

Rob Bell’s latest book Drop Like Stars explores the relationship between creativity and suffering. If you’re familiar with Bell’s sermons, tours, and previous works, it won’t be phenomenally new content.  In fact, the book almost stands in defiance of content, as I’m guessing if all the text was put into a Word document it’d be [...]

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What is Solar Crash

For those of you who are new to the site, a bit on what Solar Crash is. Some of you might know it as an event that occasionally emerges  in Toronto, and others simply as “Lon’s blog”, but when I grabbed the domain solarcrash.com the name was loaded with meaning for me. SOLAR refers to [...]

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Getting centered

A few things I’ve been doing to get my life back on track lately: Waking up before my daughter does. I’ve found this dramatically changes the tone of my day.  I’m no longer waking up in response to something, but on my own terms.  Of course this means sleeping earlier to make a 5:30 or [...]

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My beautiful mess of a summer

Not much went as planned this summer. The Nidus Festival – a faith, arts, and justice festival I was helping organize, collapsed due to a lack of financing – though I suspect there were other underlying issues. My love/hate relationship for sermons continued, as I attended a conference in michigan that was actually decent. Some [...]

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Gordon Brown – Wiring a web for global good

We’re at a unique moment in history, says UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown: we can use today’s interconnectedness to develop our shared global ethic — and work together to confront the challenges of poverty, security, climate change and the economy. What do you think? (Especially you folks in the UK)

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I don’t want to need you

I talk to people endlessly about community and the need for interdependence. The problem is though that just about everything I do in life, financially, emotionally, and even spiritually, is built towards becoming further independent. Independence and self-reliance is a highly regarding value in our culture, but I think it runs counter to humanity at [...]

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