sound bites of life on 2009-04-22

  • acá en Seattle con el cafecito, empacando para el viaje a DC mañana y a trabajar en el huerto esta tarde. #
  • http://twitpic.com/3rxuc – Yet another one of the best reasons to work from home. #
  • Book Recommendation: Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism http://tinyurl.com/d7dmcx #
  • it is not enough to talk about community development, without the element of transformational development- the change should be mutual. #

Turning Grease into Gospel

 

One small bar of soap can spark many reflections—spiritual, sociologic, entropologic and ecologic—according to Claudio Oliver, who has spent 20 years working with the urban poor, and on community development, dental and medical projects, team equipping, and teaching in Curitiba, Brazil. Over the past five years, interviewer Spencer Burke has developed a friendship with Claudio and recently, Spencer visited Claudio in Brazil to see first-hand his innovative, provocative and practical ministry. They walk viewers through the process of making soap out of used cooking oil, telling viewers, “All this got started because we were talking about holiness.”

Via theooze.tv

sound bites of life on 2009-04-21

  • @Sarcasticluther meet @janetta and vice versa. Both of you are doing the Blessings of the Bicycles. + both of you rock! #
  • Evening prayer at the Mustard Seed House. #
  • Coming to Seattle and to a city near you: The New Narrative: Local Voices for a global Future – http://www.globalonenessproject.org/events #
  • http://twitpic.com/3q213 – One of the best things of working from home. #
  • Anyone else struggle with charging for xtian related events hosted by their orgs? How do you deal with it? How do you fund your gigs? #
  • Meetings and running errands in Capitol Hill. Wave if you see me at Vivace – http://www.espressovivace.com/retail.html #
  • RT @nanettesawyer Praying for San Francisco presbytery and the vote re: ordination of lgbt leaders to be taken later today. #