lifeasmission

My brother clued me in to 2 good sites today.
This one will let you opt-out of a lot of the junk mail you receive and this one will send you free daily email tips for living more sustainably.
Why?  Because stuff like this should make us really nervous about the enormity of our consumption (pretty fantastic [...]

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My friend Todd Hiestand recently posted, A Holy (Suburban) Discontent.  It is partly a review of Tim Keel’s, Intuitive Leadership, and partly a reflection on the trappings of the suburban life style - something I have been feeling all too painfully since moving back from LA.

One of the most ironic parts of the post [...]

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I don’t know a ton about Linkin Park, but they are a band whose name keeps coming up in various spheres of my life.  I know my brother Adam is a fan and the other day my friend JR (that’s right, “there are 2 of them,” [SB]!) was showing me one of their videos on his oh [...]

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I had the chance recently to contribute an article to Fuller’s Center for Youth and Family Ministry e-journal. The title of it is, The Other Side of “At-Risk”: Freeing Youth from Suburban Oppression. It was really fun to write and helped me make some important connections between the the years I have spent [...]

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