Make Something Day is a response to Adbuster’s famous Buy Nothing Day, which is itself a response to that high holy day of American consumerism called Black Thursday. Buy Nothing Day resists consumerism with buying nothing. The people behind Make Something Day have a better idea: In response to the over-consumptive habits of western culture, Adbusters […]
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Although I’ve been speaking this way for a few years now, I was surprised by this quote: The world is now facing an oil crisis few predicted and even fewer are prepared for. It’s impossible to understate how crucial cheap oil has become to our way of life. It’s shaped how we get our food, what […]
Mark Bittman details his journey of observing a secular day of rest from technology over the past six months. Fascinating. I think I might just need to sign up. Link after the quote below: Flying home from Europe a few months ago, I swiped a credit card through the slot of the in-seat phone, checked my […]
For most people who grew up Protestant, the notion of “the parish” in ministry is perhaps something vaguely Catholic and therefore assumed to be outdated in our contemporary situation. While I certainly have some serious problems with the parish model as traditionally practiced within Catholicism (largely due to issues of power and hierarchy), I am […]
Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight. Gotta kick at the darkness ‘til it bleeds daylight. - Bruce Cockburn “Lovers in a Dangerous Time” This lyric has been stuck inside my head for the past couple of weeks. It’s saying so much with so little. Brilliant.
Last Sunday, Pete Fitch preached a sermon based on C.S. Lewis’ famous sermon entitled “The Weight of Glory.” The themes of that are still ringing through this week, and the following quote is ringing particularly true: If there lurks in the most modern minds the notion that to desire our own good and earnestly to hope […]
