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.

Today in review

Don’t do this too often, but thought I’d give you all a wrap up of today’s events…

a. woke up around 5:00
b. got up around 5:30
c. made some coffee and got a txt message from Smiley around 5:50 announcing the birth of their new baby boy, Aiden Sean (jump over to their blog and wish the new parents a big congrats).
d. took my time getting ready for work
e. rode the bus to work and sat next to my new bus-mate Judd
f. slow day at work – especially after lunch
g. walked the 4 or 5 blocks to DART headquarters at lunch to get a bus pass for April
h. watched the afternoon pass by in my cubicle
i. made plans with my wonderful life, Laurie, to visit Shari and Smiley and baby Aidan after work
j. Laurie calls on her way to pick me up to inform me that there’s a tornado warning for a huge area surrounding our house
k. realize everyone else in Dallas is apparently trying to get information from WFAA.com – because it no workie
l. Laurie picked me up and we made the short drive to the hospital and visited with our friends
m. came home and saw no sign of rain or thunderstorms in our neighborhood
n. made chicken sandwiches (not chicken salad but chicken breast – like Chick-Fil-A) for dinner
o. worked out at the gym
p. went grocery shopping
q. read some more in “Jesus for President”
r. thought about working on my “lesson” for our community group tomorrow night – didn’t want to turn the alarm off and then go outside in my PJs to get my book out of my truck
s. remembered i needed to take a pic for my 365days project
t. took the pic while listening to the Homebrewed Christianity podcast
u. decided to write a summary of the days events on podcast
v. now im jealous that Laurie is already sound asleep and i’m not
w. staring to feel some soreness in my back
x. xylophone
y. y? because i can
z. time to get some Zs

Thomas Nelson to produce eco-friendly Bibles

From the Reformergent:

As the first move by a major publisher of Bibles, Thomas Nelson, Inc. has decided to no longer mass produce synthetic bounded Bibles, but switch to a more eco-friendly alternative. Thomas Nelson also were the publishers behind McLaren’s Everything Must Change, which specifically points out that the book is printed on eco-friendly material. I have to say, good job Thomas Nelson for making the switch. So now as Americans we can start buying up the eco-friendly Bibles to add to our Bible shelf, and send away all of our synthetic ones to areas of the world where they can start polluting their environment with materials that don’t decompose.

Homebrew Christianity (episode 2)

Thought this was super interesting…

The discussion around the table turns to looking at how some various doctrines are becoming more and more attracted to emergent thoughts and ideas (approx 14:30 min into the podcast).

“In the last year I’ve had meetings with three different kinds of Presbyterians who have all said… ‘that’s really Presbyterianism. It’s really good to hear this.’ And the Methodists say, ‘that’s totally Methodist theology that you’re talking about.’ The Episcopalians say, ‘that’s Anglicanism this emergent thing…’ With the Mennonites, ‘that’s what Mennonites say.'” … “I got a call from a Greek Orthodox church who said ‘I’m coming through Minneapolis and I’ve read the Emergent Manifesto of hope and I feel like I’ve found a long last brother. Can we get together?’ There’s something about this thing that all these traditions are saying, ‘That’s us in our best days!'”

Verse for the day

Ezekiel 16:49-50 “The sin of your sister Sodom was this: She lived with her daughters in the lap of luxury—proud, gluttonous, and lazy. They ignored the oppressed and the poor. They put on airs and lived obscene lives. And you know what happened: I did away with them.” (MSG)