For
those in the DC metro region, our housemate Eric is working on a show
and is getting ready for a "work in progress" viewing, which he says
may change even in the three nights of public performance. Check it out
if you get a chance:
JACK is a work in progress one-man puppet adaptation of Jack in the Beanstalk.
I've been intrigued by a band called Psalters since this summer, when I got a few tracks from their website. The other day I found that they have two of their albums offered for free download (Us vs. US and the Divine Liturgy of the Wretched Exiles) so I thought I'd post the link and some info about them. If the word 'liturgy' in the latest album title throws you off, maybe this will help clarify:
Sounds Like: The percussive clank of chain links attached to dozens of defiant stomping feet across the marbled business floor desert, fists raised high, open mouthed screaming brittle sirens over the hum of computers, air filtration systems and the muddy thud of a thousand apathetic hearts.
Here's a petition that I helped design for the people from Avaaz.org -- calling on China to use their influence in the situation in Burma. It's already rocketed past the half-million mark, but the goal is now a million by the end of the week. Have you signed? The ad will run in the Financial Times around the world, and in a Chinese newspaper.
Some time ago, I wrote about switching our house over to wind power. This was a step in the right direction for all the electricity we use internally such as our lights, stereo, fans, and the computer that I type these entries and do my freelance graphic design on. But another question remained: what about the server that hosts the website, which is always on, 24/7 (along with all the other computers in the data center)? Well, earlier this year the host that we use announced they were going 100% carbon neutral, which was a pleasant surprise.
A quick follow-up to the last post about Revolution in Jesusland -- I wanted to pull out one of the posts from the site which deserved a special mention. Zach and Elizabeth have recently sat down with Brian Walsh (who co-authored Colossians Remixed with his wife, Sylvia Keesmaat). It's a good listen and there is always something you can get from a relaxed sit-down interview that is hard to replicate in print -- and I found a few parts actually more convincing in this interview than in the book itself (e.g. in the full interview there is a section on the passage in Colossians about slaves and it seems fuller than I remember it being in the book). Here's a few transcribed clips (go to the blog entry for the audio):
"Every week we come together and remember that Jesus died on an imperial cross in order to bring about a kingdom that will overthrow the empire."
For
those in the DC metro region, our housemate Eric is working on a show
and is getting ready for a "work in progress" viewing, which he says
may change even in the three nights of public performance. Check it out
if you get a chance:
I've been intrigued by a band called Psalters since this summer, when I got a few tracks from their website. The other day I found that they have two of their albums offered for free download (Us vs. US and the Divine Liturgy of the Wretched Exiles) so I thought I'd post the link and some info about them. If the word 'liturgy' in the latest album title throws you off, maybe this will help clarify:
Here's a petition that I helped design for the people from 
Some time ago, I wrote about 
A quick follow-up to the last post about