Jonathan D. Blundell

From the Global Night Commute Group:

That’s right….everyone wear yellow shirts and bring the following

1. You and every person you know
2. A pillow and sleeping bag
3. Wear a YELLOW T-shirt
4. Pen and paper and sharpie
5. Art supplies to draw pictures for the Ugandan children
6. Snacks for the morning
7. You and every person you know

Most of the Dallas group is meeting at SMU and walking from there to the church on Northwest Highway. Phil and I are still planning on walking from Waxahachie, but we will likely jump the DART rail at Ledbetter since the site is further away. Right now we’re planning on leaving between 10 a.m. and noon on Saturday. Let us know if you want to join us, we’ll be glad to have your company.
We’ll walk from Waxahachie to the Ledbetter DART Station (estimated 10-15 miles) then ride the DART rail to Park lane and walk to the church (estimated 5 miles or so). We’re going to double check those figures so we better know what time we need to leave.
Sign up and join us: invisiblechildren.com.
And BTW – Dallas isn’t the only city – city’s around the world are holding their own events.
AND… The filmmakers are scheduled to be on Oprah this Wednesday. This should grab everyone’s attention. Watch out. This is going to be big!

From the AFP:

Eastern European immigrants are an ‘elixir’ for Britain’s economy, easing inflation, boosting output and raising tax revenue, according to a study.
The latest official figures show that net migration to Britain hit 223,000 people in 2004 with beneficial effects for the British economy, according to the Ernst and Young Item Club, published in British newspapers.
Most of them came from the new eastern member states of the European Union, which allows them to come and work freely in Britain.

Earth Day is tomorrow and with it, I’ve been reading up on biodiesel more and more.
I’ve even found several sites with people using straight vegetable oil in their engine, rather than a biodiesel blend.
Apparently, with a conversion, you can run your diesel engine on straight used vegetable oil – which most restaurants will give you for free, so they don’t have to pay for it to be recycled.
I found a couple bands here in the U.S. who are driving their entire tours across America on used vegetable oil – for free.

“The diesel engine can be fed with vegetable oils and would help considerably in the development of agriculture of the countries which use it”
“The use of vegetable oils for engine fuels may seem insignificant today. But such oils may become in course of time as important as petroleum and the coal tar products of the present time.”
Rudolf Diesel 1911 (inventor of the diesel engine)

According to Wikipedia, used vegetable oil costs on average 40 cents a gallon. Boy I’d love to fill up on that today.
Here’s a company that has perfected the conversion from diesel to used vegetable oil to a science: Frybrid
They sell entire kits, including tanks for the used vegetable oil within toolboxes for trucks. How about a 91 gallon fuel tank, full of dirt cheep or even free fuel?
The conversion kits they sell average between $1500 to $2000.

Powering up a car withvegetable oil rather than gas
Lehigh University fired up over alternative fuels

Thanks to Thomas I’m an Emergent/Postmodern Christian. Ok… maybe not thanks to Thomas. He just showed me the way to find out what I am. It’s probably thanks to many other things that made me the “man” I am today.

You scored as Emergent/Postmodern. You are Emergent/Postmodern in your theology. You feel alienated from older forms of church, you don’t think they connect to modern culture very well. No one knows the whole truth about God, and we have much to learn from each other, and so learning takes place in dialogue. Evangelism should take place in relationships rather than through crusades and altar-calls. People are interested in spirituality and want to ask questions, so the church should help them to do this. Emergent/Postmodern 79% Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan 68% Reformed Evangelical 68% Fundamentalist 61% Neo orthodox 50% Classical Liberal 46% Roman Catholic 36% Charismatic/Pentecostal 32% Modern Liberal 32% What's your theological worldview? created with QuizFarm.com

Judas/ Jesus/ Peter

I meant to post on this earlier this week, but got sidetracked and forgot.
A group in Manchester, England put on a Passion musical in the middle of the city that was aired on the BBC.
The musical took a modern day look at Passion week, as if Jesus came today. Songs were sung by Oasis and other bands from the area.
Thomas found a video of the Last Supper and “Love Will Tear Us Apart” from the musical and I ran a search and found some more.
Check them out.