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I’m out - Drinking Piña Coladas

I’m out drinking  piña coladas y Medallas. I’m also taking a vacation from this blog for the next 2 weeks.
Check out some interesting voices on my blogroll. Scroll down and click like crazy.
Peace.

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Swimming in known waters

As Ruben Blades would say “Todos vuelven a la tierra en que naciero, al embrujo incomparable de su sol.” I am returning - for about 2 weeks - back to Puerto Rico.
I moved to Washington in 2005. The decision to move here was a well thought one.  We moved here looking for a change of [...]

“an American manifesto”

Steve Taylor, known by his book Out of Bounds Church, has a short but very incisive comment about the new emerging church book, An Emerging Manifesto.
You can read his comment here - an American manifesto
I guess the feeling of “colonialism and post-colonialism” in this context is not only felt in outside the USA. It [...]

Holy Kwik-E-Mart

No my friend, the church is not like a Kwik-E-Mart or a Seven Eleven. I’m glad you love Her (the church) and want to be of service to Her, but you shouldn’t pack and leave every time things are not to your liking. Do not treat Her like your old girlfriends of the past. [...]

commodification

One of my struggles as a photographer interested in street photography and photojournalism is the temptation to objectify people for the sake of art.  There is a fine line, which is very easy to cross, between using the camera to tell the truth about pain and suffering and ignoring a persons dignity in order to [...]

Urban Organic Gardens

Out with the lawn, in with edibles
Urban growers bringing their own produce to the table
This is very similar to what we do in our small urban garden at the Mustard Seed House. Last year we harvested 200+ pounds of apples and 200+ pounds of tomatoes. All in an organic urban garden.
See pics of one of [...]

Seven Stanzas at Easter

Many thanks to Becky for the contribution.

Seven Stanzas at Easter
By John Updike
Make no mistake: if He rose at all
it was as His body;
if the cells’ dissolution did not reverse, the molecules
reknit, the amino acids rekindle,
the Church will fall.It was not as the flowers,
each soft Spring recurrent;
it was not as His Spirit in the mouths [...]

Archbishop calls for forgiveness

 Archbishop calls for forgiveness

“Give up the struggle to be innocent and the hope that God will proclaim that you were right and everyone else wrong. Simply ask for whatever healing it is that you need, whatever grace and hope you need to be free, then step towards your neighbour.
“Easter reveals a God who is ready [...]

National Day of Climate Action - April 14

Step It Up 2007

This is our organizing hub for a National Day of Climate Action–April 14th, 2007. On this one spring day, there will be hundreds and hundreds of rallies all across the country. We hope to have gatherings in every state, and in many of America’s most iconic places: on the [...]

Christ is massacred in His members

In the whole world, throughout the whole of history, even among religious men and among saints, Christ suffers dismemberment.
His physical Body was crucified by Pilate and the Pharisees; his body is drawn and quartered from age to age by the devils in the agony of that dis-union which bred and vegetates in our soul, prone [...]