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Next Solar Crash Event: brokenbeautiful

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Emerging from the rubble once again, the next live solar crash event will be on April 10th, 2010 at the El Mocambo Night club. Join the Facebook page and see http://event.solarcrash.com with more details to follow.

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Lone Rangers

I grabbed a late night bite with Mr. Broken-but-usable JD yesterday.  The jerk called me a lone ranger. About fifteen years ago when I first entered the doors of a church I was called a lone ranger as well. Trying to not look stupid, I rarely talked to anybody about my spiritual journey.  On my [...]

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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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Caving into Thesis…

SolarCrash.com now runs on the thesis framework. I bought into it because I wanted to refresh this site and am planning on doing some site development for others. I’m also really banking on the search engine optimization hype all over it. Finding a promotional discount also helped. I was exploring Thematic, and some other frameworks [...]

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Questions on church gatherings

I’ve got lots of questions, here’s a series of questions I’ve been pondering lately on church gatherings – and by that I mean that thing folks do in the New Testament when they get together. What do you call yours?  I was going to say Sunday gathering, but lots of folks don’t meet on Sundays. [...]

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Linking Arms, Linking Lives

Linking arms How can urban-Suburban Partnerships transform Communities? Is it even possible? Linking Arms, Linking Lives is by several community development heavy weights like Ron Sider, John Perkins, and Wayne Gordon. I’d say the book is more than a good start on this rapidly emerging issue. Too often I read books that seem to speak [...]

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When love comes down…

by Chris Luk Photography Collaborative art project responding to “What must love be” by Claudia Hung What can I say?  I think it was another phenomenal night!  Of the many projects I’m on, the Solar Crash events are definitely one of my favorites.  I’ve written a few thoughts on creating these spaces before here and [...]

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Be the church…

Our faith community has rebranded our no-church-sundays to Be-the-Church-Sunday, which is closer to the heart of our intentions. The Scriptures describe the church with living images – a body, a bride, a family, a living temple of living stones.  The church is not a building, nor is it simply a gathering within a building.  We [...]

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