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Author: Jonathan Blundell
I'm a husband, father of three, blogger, podcaster, author and media geek who is hoping to live a simple life and follow The Way.
Christian Liberation
“The liberation that Christianity preaches is a liberation from something that enslaves, for something that ennobles us. Those who talk only about the enslavement, about the negative part of liberation, do not have all the power that the church can give one.
It struggles, yes, against the earth’s enslavements, against oppression, against misery, against hunger. All that’s true – but, for what? For something.
St. Paul uses a beautiful expression: to be free for love. To be free for something positive, that is what Christ means when he says, ‘Follow Me.'”
– Oscar Romero
Related ::
HT – Tripp Fuller
A year of living biblically
Author, philosopher, prankster and journalist A.J. Jacobs talks about the year he spent living biblically — following the rules in the Bible as literally as possible.
A very interesting point he makes is in his discussion about taking the Bible literally. He says its virtually impossible to follow all of the Bible literally. We have to pick and choose at some point.
In my mind, it might help if we have a better understanding of the culture the Bible was written to before we start picking and choosing what we should or should not follow in Scripture.
Related ::
TED conference
Woody Allen interviews Billy Graham
Woody Allen & Billy Graham pt. 2
Christianity on Al Jazeera
Inside USA, a program on the English version of Al Jazeera recently did a story on Christianity and politics in America. Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw and the Psalters were each featured briefly as they worked on the audio version of “Jesus for President.”
If I’m not mistaken you’ll also catch a glimpse of Jamie Moffett sitting behind the sound board in the recording studio (Moffett was on the Something Beautiful Podcast 1.6).
Related ::
Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera :: Inside USA article
HT :: Ordinary Radicals
Jesus for President
Something Beautiful Podcast :: Jamie Moffett
Laurie cuts a rug
Well… I guess both of us do… but as she said, “you finally get to see me dance.”
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six degrees of Christianity
This is cool.
Co-Occurrences of Names in the New Testament (more complete data)
It’s like 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon or Friend Wheel, but for the names and people of Scripture. Basically its a visual representation of people who are connected in Scripture by being mentioned together 3 ore more times.
Very cool way to visualize how Scripture seems very big on relationships with one another.
Related ::
Wikipedia :: six degrees of Kevin Bacon
Doug Pagitt talks about hope and being relational
SSL :: Facebook Friends Wheel