N.T. Wright in Time magazine talking about his new book and hinting that Christians may be wrong about the way they look at heaven. You don’t say. ———————– If you are depressed, don’t go shopping. Studies show that sad people are more prone to spending. This was a short but great article. ———————– I’m almost …
I have been out of the blogging world lately, haven’t been reading much nor writing much. Life is happening and keeping me busy. I’m putting together a feature length film with some friends called Ugly Lights, been working on some new web jobs, spoke at a retreat, doing stuff with theStory and lots of other …
Brian Walsh laments on Christmas ———————– Dave Hoyt-Walterhouse laments on Boxing Day ———————– Jonny Baker with a Christmas quote from Maggi Dawn ———————– Top Ten Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2007 ———————– As promised, here is a list of all the Christmas installations we did at theStory this year, with pictures and descriptions on what …
My friend was listening to CBC Radio and they were talking about Christmas. The one guy said that it’s easier to spend money than time, which is why he thinks we’ve seen such a rise in shopping over the Christmas season. Our culture has tied up all our time with whatever we do, so instead …
I was interviewed at Rob Bell’s God’s Aren’t Angry tour in Grand Rapids, you can read the article here. He only took one line from what I said along with my friend John, but at least he spelled my name right. ———————– I would like to see this post in the hands of my parents …
I am doing a small test and have switched away from Firefox and moved to Flock. Mind you it is based on Firefox but apparently it has fixed a lot of the memory leaks. This could be temporary but we’ll see. It incorporates blogging, flickr, youtube, facebook very seemlessly, and works with a few of …
Flash is a cool way to do web design. Most developers stay away from it because its very time consuming and it’s hard to have a site that is flash and also give you good content that is easy to edit. However, here is a list of 65 awesome flash designs, and this one just …
Joe, Jared and I are back from our new forms of church documentary tour around Ontario. It was a great time. You can read about it here and all the stops and churches we interviewed. ———————– Hoarding your books is consumerism too. These are the kind of thoughts that lead me to start Atic with …
Next week Joe, Pernell, Jared and myself are going on a tour around Ontario for the church plant documentary we are working on. Should be a fun trip. You can follow everything here and our itinerary is here also. ———————– Here are a few links that the nerd in me is excited for that you …
A very cool program. Watch this video first here. Then play with the program online here. Honestly, there is no end to what technology can do. And then if you thought that was cool, this is even better and more inspiring, seriously, this will blow your mind. ———————– Adam asks what is sin, I like …
Funny Church Sign ———————– My brother-in-law Aaron is a photographer and recently he got a job photographing animal surgery. These pics are pretty cool, plus that’s just a cool job. ———————– Crazy video, and I like it. (ht) ———————– We are heading on a tour of Ontario in a few weeks to do some filming …
I’ve started to keep track of my library on Library Thing. I’ve got about half my books on there now. It is going to be quite a useful too when we pull out our new surprise idea on Sunday. More to come about that later. You can see my library here. ———————– I just finished …
This is just too awesome (ht) ———————– Online photo editing, with a lot of the capabilities that all you Mac users like with your web cam and doing silly photos of yourself. ———————– On killing your children if they don’t obey. ———————– Joe, Darryl and I are going to try out Google Groups while we …
And here is why I don’t like calling myself a Christian. (ht) ———————– I asked Dan what his thoughts on leadership were. He answered on his site, some good stuff here. ———————– Does micro-credit help the developing world?
This made me laugh out loud a number of times. The comments are probably the funniest. ———————– Looks like a conference I would enjoy. Anyone want to sponsor me to go? ———————– Hypocrisy of “Radicals” | This is good and I have thought about it often. ———————– Tim Challies offers his own thoughts on hell, …
We’ve been talking a lot about humour lately and how old people have such a different humour than we do, and wondering if in 30 years when we get older if our kids will think our humour isn’t funny at all. Anyway, Rachel found this article about humour comparing older and younger, it was interesting, …
Barry and I had a booth at Artwalk this weekend. We didn’t sell much but we made lots of good connections, especially for the Sarnia Film Fest. Here is all the pictures that we were selling. Of course if you want any, you can always let us know. ———————– One of the Catholic churches in …
Bill Dahl has published his entire book online. A Porpoise Diving Life. Rick Warren wrote days 1 thru 40. He’s written days 41-80. His hope is that his readers will write days 81-120. ———————– It’s not that I hate Facebook, I just hate how people use it. Here is a cool explanation (maybe more in …
This article was amazing by the publisher of Hustler Magazine about Jerry Fallwell. Matthew Good writes a eulogy to Jerry Falwell, who by the way, in case you didn’t know, has died. I have a feeling that these people wouldn’t have liked what he said. He has a Complex Legacy as Fox puts it. ———————– …
I designed a site for a friend of mine in Peterborough who planted a church called The Third Space. This site is called Crooked Letters and its mixed full of all different types of writing. They are really creative, hilarious and refreshingly honest so enjoy… ———————– Jordon linked to a few interesting articles on Poverty. …