Thoughts on love and forgiveness

St Peters Brewery

Originally posted at StPetersBrewery.info

I’ve witnessed a couple great examples of people truly living out love and forgiveness recently in my life — especially through some people very close to me. Their stories inspire me to believe that while St. Peter’s Brewery may be a fictional story — the ideas contained within it can truly be lived out day by day. Here’s a couple excerpts from Chapter 8 of St. Peter’s Brewery that deal with these ideas:
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I’m diggin’ Death Cab for Cutie

Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie performing at the Street Scene music festival in San Diego. | Photo from Wikipedia

Death Cab for Cutie has been coming up more and more on my Muse station on Pandora.

Really starting to dig them more and more. Especially their track, Little Bribes.

I’m wondering — what album(s) are essential for Death Cab for Cutie fans?

What tracks should a new fan look for?

An indispensable leader

Imagine if we all sought to be leaders like this:

How different would our institutions be? How different would our communities of faith be? How different would our communities be? How different would our families be?

(video from Seth Godin)

Searching for paradise with Kevin Hendricks

As promised, I had a good chat with Kevin Hendricks yesterday about his novel, The Least of These, which he wrote as part of NaNoWriMo.

Huge props to Kevin for the great book. It was a fun and entertaining read for sure.

Find out more about Kevin in an interview with him on the podcast (from season 1!). He’s also taken part in Five Questions with… on We Live Simply this week, so be sure to be inspired.

And be sure and follow his blog at kevindhendricks.com or on Twitter @kevinhendricks

Ustream videos not working? – Fixed!

The Ustream Black Box (no video loading)

While trying to watch a conference via Ustream, I found a horrible discovery — the site would no longer load video.

I tried Internet Explorer (IE8), Firefox and Chrome. Nothing.

After numerous Google searches, I was still out of luck.

No video on the site would load.

YouTube worked. Vimeo worked. Facebook video worked.

But no Ustream. Nothing but a black box appeared in place of the video.
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