Category: community

Charter for Compassion


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There are those that think we must bring about “justice” and punish those who “do us wrong.”

There are those that think we must “stand up for ourselves” and fight to rid the world of our “enemies.”

Perhaps, if we step back we’ll realize our enemies are men like us.

LOVE WINS! In every country, every language and yes – every religion.

Question of the day :: church

Posed this question via Twitter (and Facebook) today.

Q of the day :: (140 characters or less) what would your ideal church/community of faith look like?

Here are the responses thus far…

Jess_Hays @jdblundell a gathering together of christ-followers accepting of each others brokeness united to worship our savior. Small and intimate.

darrinreeves @jdblundell it would look like a festival I was at this summer…no one batted an eyelid about what you looked like etc…it had all sorts

truckerfrank @jdblundell A Scottish pub

truckerfrank @Jess_Hays Drat your answer is better than mine. I’m going to pout.

robgt2 @jdblundell re qotd – church would be in/own a community center and serve the community. Or in St. Arbucks! And like @truckerfrank’s.

What would you add?

St. Peter’s Brewery aka a #nanowrimo update

Here’s my stats as of right now. I’ve gotten a little bit behind, as you can see I haven’t updated each and every day.

Starting out, I think you need an average of 1,666 words a day to finish all 50,000 words in a month. I think my average for the remaining 20 days is now around 1,950 words a day (that also takes in consideration the 2-3 days I’ll probably miss this weekend due to the marriage retreat we’ll be going on).

So anyways, I’m having fun, trying not to think about it too much as in making plot decisions, grammar and such (I think that’s the biggest suggestion everyone has given).

Here’s to hoping I’ll win and have something worth sharing at the end.

A few random trivia points thus far. See if you can piece the story together. 🙂

  • The name of the book is St. Peter’s Brewery
  • The title comes from a scene in Jamie Moffett’s great documentary, “Ordinary Radicals“
  • Many of the brews served at St. Peter’s are inspired by beers at Pagosa Springs Brewery or St. Arnold’s.
  • One of the characters is named G.T. He’s a tall truck driver with a long goatee and loves community and organic communities of faith.
  • It takes place in a small Central Texas town.
  • Just introduced a group of seven folks who live on a farm together.

OK that’s all you get for now – unless you can track down my profile on Nanowrimo.org 🙂

Or you can follow my #nanowrimo updates on Twitter.

Or see what other writers are tweeting about.

And read what Kevin Hendricks has written thus far.

5 things I want to do…

Thomas tagged me over the weekend, asking what are 5 things you’ve always wanted to do…

I don’t know if these are things I’ve always wanted to do, but these are 5 things I really want to do (as of today)…

1. Spend at least two weeks visiting the UK (England, Scotland and Ireland) with Laurie.

2. Spend a week in New York City with Laurie.

3. Start a family :: aka have kids – (just don’t get any ideas that we’re planning on doing this tomorrow :-))

4. Freelance/work from home and/or own my own a business that supports my entire family so Laurie can also stay at home (and no I’m not interested in your pyramid marketing scheme). I’d love to see this as a regular paying gig on the radio (or a podcast), sharing people’s stories. Or — improving my web/video/media design skills so that I can make enough money to support my family with it.

5. Continue building real deep communities of faith.

In the process of building this list I also added a few more items to my life list over on 43things.com.

As part of the journey, I tag Laurie, Trucker Frank, Jessica, Brian, Michael, Kevin and Josh.

Tagged or not tagged, feel free to leave a list of the 5 things you want to do in the comment section below (or on your own blog)…

You too can change the world – 50 words or less

“We may not be able to change the whole world, but we can change the whole world for one person.”

Shaun Groves and his band of bloggers are returning from the Dominican Republic today. Take some time to learn what they’ve learned.

(What are other folks saying this weekend in 50 words or less?)