poverty

Human Planet

If you thought acquiring your iPad2 was exciting, check out what the rest of the world is doing. Also for a photographer’s perspective a great audio slideshow by Timothy Allen on documenting the Human Planet.

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In the bread line

By German artist Fritz Eichenberg Looking for God? Search the unlikely places.

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Praying for time

hands praying for time

I’ve always loved George Michael’s song “Praying for time”. If you can ignore all the controversies surrounding him (hence why I’ve embedded the Carrie Underwood rendition), the song is every bit lyrical genius. It’s not hard to list how humanity has screwed up royally (ie. as the earth bleeds for our sins amid the current [...]

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movein.to

Some friends of mine have an awesome vision of incarnating Christ into the neighbourhoods of Toronto.  They’ve been researching hard and have identified 25 of the poorest and most unreached patches in the city, and are asking for people to literally move-in, and be the church in these neighborhoods. They are holding their first conference [...]

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Evolving Church – Live Blogging…

Morning Session for the evolving church: amidst the powers – Walter Wink and Dan Oudshoorn

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Being Asian…

Some thoughts that have been percolating on being Asian… I’m Chinese. I don’t think I realized it till about grade three. I have faint memories of myself squeezing my nose in the mirror in hopes that it wasn’t so flat. Race itself can be a type of poverty Is the asian model minority myth, a [...]

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Blog Action Day: Poverty

Today’s blog action day. Poverty, what do you think?  Where do you fit in it all? Last Christmas my wife and I experimented with funding a few differnet organizations in place of presents for one another. We bought a goat through World Vision, which sounds cool, but I have no idea what that Goat is [...]

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Change…

Obama’s clearly inspiring people of all types. The debates are this Friday, what a soap opera this year.  I can’t believe how tuned in I am.

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