The Occupy movement has been growing and spreading. One of the things I've found interesting is how prominent a role text, images, and social media are playing in this movement. You have the signs which are the basic communication most of the public gets from the movement. You also have these hand held signs
I have a tendency to keep a whole bunch of tabs open in Chrome that I want to think about or talk about more. I have not been doing a great job of blogging, there is much else taking up a fair bit of my time these days. Including the band. That being said, I
There is a scene in 1984 in which a group of people are in a theatre. The propaganda announcements come on and the face of enemy number 1 comes up. The audience spends a solid minute booing and hating this face of their enemy. I could not help thinking about this as Twitter and the
This was originally a tweet that over-expanded. Today I had a powerful sense of my accidental privilege. I was born into the wealthiest 1% (middle class, North America), speak English, (globally the standard language), received a free decent public school education in French, I could go on, but won't. I am responsible for none of
Is anybody else horrified by the going-ons in Toronto today? This is not a city plagued by protests, especially violent ones. There are so many things that can be discussed about what happened yesterday afternoon and right up to this writing. I'm going to focus on three. The first is that the rioters should not
I noticed that John Piper asked if the Church can grow when it has a bad name. He quoted the book of Acts "everywhere this sect is spoken against." (28:22) For those who don't know, Acts recounts the story of Christianity's explosion after the death, and resurrection of Christ. I thought this was an overly
I just read this post on worship bands by Fearsome Tycoon over at the Boar's Head Tavern. He has this to say about worship bands. A huge part of it is theological. There is no way to do “praise band” without turning the service into a “show.” Disagree? Find me one praise band that plays
Too much to do today, so I'll leave Buechner's memoirs to a later date. Instead I give you my most recent graph.
The twitter hashtag is #patrobertsondoesntspeakforme. There are two things that need to be addressed. 1. Those outside of Christianity who want to dismiss us all because of Pat Robertson are a close second to him in terms of ignorance. If you ignore the work being done in Haiti, primarily by Christian organizations*, in favor of
I had a good friend hang out with me today who is visiting from New Brunswick. In trying to think of places that were fun and affordable I decided to show her the Distillery District. One of the downtown areas that was useless, and has now been wonderfully revitalized as an arts centre. I had