Category Archives: Serving

What if Jesus meant all that stuff

Great letter from Shane Claiborne in Esquire magazine. You can read it here.

An excerpt of the book is up

For those of you who’ve been wondering what Signorelli and I have been toiling away at lo these many months down in the cellars of our respective homes, wait no longer. My good friend Scott Bane, who’s blog you can reach on the sidebar of this page, and who is the online editor for a [...]

real on nine

The book is done. It’s been 9 full months in the making, with many revisions, additions, deletions, and more revisions, but the end result is something that Mike Signorelli and I are more than happy about, and VERY excited about. We just ordered our first test pressing of it, which will serve as a final [...]

Humility and Submission

When you think you are humble, chances are you’re not. In fact, I’d say just the thought of having humility is a two-edged sword. The second you garner the thought of humility, you’re automatically assuming a position of arrogance, even if it’s only in your own mind. I think humility and submission are two of [...]

Holidays suck.

Ok, so they don’t suck, but approaching Christmas time, I’m again reminded of how consumer-driven we’ve become. Midnight sales, 5am sales, 2 day sales, 4 day sales, ad nauseum. It all gets a little tired. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not one of those “Buy Nothing Friday” types, or totally anti-consumer, but I think this [...]

A moment away (A glimpse of the divine, Part II)

Originally posted on 6/22/2006 Wow, what a last couple of weeks it has been. Up and down, and up again. As many of you probably already know, it started a few weeks ago with an incident that, while time has lessened the initial strain, will be indelibly etched in our memories for years to come. [...]

A glimpse of the divine, Part I

Originally posted on 5/11/2006  “Ignorant fibbers in the congregation Gather around spewing sympathy Spare me None of them can even hold a candle up to you Blinded by choices hypocrites won’t seek “ So goes part of the song “10,000 Days”, from the new Tool album of the same name. For those of you who do [...]

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