A friend lent me his copy of the DVD from Rob Bell’s Everything is Spiritualtour. I spent a third of today’s daylight watching it (slept ’til noon - oops!).
Really good, life-affirming, life-giving stuff - something that I haven’t had in awhile. The core idea is that we live in a universe that is drenched with the divine. Bell’s proposition is based in part on the idea that ancient Hebrew has no specific word for “spiritual,” which would suggest that there are things which are “not spiritual.” Anyhow, check it out if you’re into that. Packaging designed by the lovers-not-fighters at Flannel.
True to form, I spent the evening reading Ron Currie’s God is Dead. The premise is brilliant – God enters the world in the form of a woman from Darfur to experience the pain and suffering of the world firsthand. After a humorous incognito run-in with Colin Powell, he dies while fleeing the Janjawee. Once the world finds out, some things start to unravel pretty quickly, but others stay strangely the same.
Read Adam’s review if you want more. My verdict? Brilliant concept, but the execution is too implausible for me to believe it.
With a semester and a half left before graduation, I’m rethinking my entire academic career and feverishly planning out an MA in a completely unrelated area.
Doug Zongker of the University of Washington has opened up a new field of study set to revolutionize academia. In this brief presentation, he outlines a few of his ideas supported by incontrovertible qualitative and qualitative data and certainly left many heads scratching.
Please watch the clip. I guarantee you - it will not disappoint.
A departure from experimental projects such as A Collision and Sunsets and Sushi, Remedy is Crowder’s “there-and-back-again” take on the clean but edgy style he’s developed in Can You Hear Us? and Illuminate.
More than signaling his transformation as an artist, Remedy’s synthetic plea may be indicative of a larger transformation toward an ancient/(post-)modern spirituality bent on changing the world emerging in Christian music as well as Christian thought.
I’ve listened to Remedy a few times and read through the slick digital booklet that tagged along. The verdict? Read the rest of this entry »
SomethingAwful.com’s recent contest turned up a few interesting entries - a treasure trove of potential children’s book covers. Some things just weren’t meant to be.
I don’t often read the IDS, Indiana University’s daily student newspaper. But I walked by the newsstand today and saw a headline on the front page that read, you guessed it, “Trading iPods for AK-47s.”
It’s about a student and alumni group called “Fearless Charities” that works in dangerous areas such as Darfur, Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Somalia. According to the article, the group set up 16 charities to distribute mosquito nets, thousands of cholera tablets, “as well as a few iPods” in a creative venture to trade music for guns.
They’ve got big dreams and some really great plans.
Hoosier Hills Food Bank and Career Center is having their annual “Soup Bowl Benefit” this Sunday. Tickets are $20 and go to support their work throughout the year. Local potters make some really great bowls that you get to keep, and a good friend tells me that it’s a really great time.
I’ll be grabbing my ticket this afternoon. They’re on sale at Bloomingfoods (East 3rd and Downtown) for the next couple days, but they’re down to about 10. If you’re interested in coming along, let me know and I will grab one for you.
A friend lent me his copy of the DVD from Rob Bell’s Everything is Spiritual tour. I spent a third of today’s daylight watching it (slept ’til noon - oops!).
True to form, I spent the evening reading Ron Currie’s God is Dead. The premise is brilliant – God enters the world in the form of a woman from Darfur to experience the pain and suffering of the world firsthand. After a humorous incognito run-in with Colin Powell, he dies while fleeing the Janjawee. Once the world finds out, some things start to unravel pretty quickly, but others stay strangely the same.
A departure from experimental projects such as A Collision and Sunsets and Sushi, Remedy is Crowder’s “there-and-back-again” take on the clean but edgy style he’s developed in Can You Hear Us? and Illuminate.
I don’t often read the IDS, Indiana University’s daily student newspaper. But I walked by the newsstand today and saw a headline on the front page that read, you guessed it, “Trading iPods for AK-47s.”
Hoosier Hills Food Bank and Career Center is having their annual “Soup Bowl Benefit” this Sunday. Tickets are $20 and go to support their work throughout the year. Local potters make some really great bowls that you get to keep, and a good friend tells me that it’s a really great time.