Due to complications with a new internet connection (or more accurately, lack thereof) I am going to discontinue my activity on this LJ account and am moving my attention over to a new account here: http://seastack.wordpress.com/

For those who may have ever wondered why I didn't ever allow technology on trips (mp3 players, cell phones, etc.) and why I planned entire weekends whose sole purpose was to disengage from all sorts of electronic technology, here is some good insight as to why: Confessions of Luddite Wannabe

And for those who never wondered...it's something you ( Read more... )

Fall is here.  The air feels different, the sun is getting lower in the sky, Orion is beginning his ascent above the horizon.

I love this season.

I have been thinking lately about the music that I feel is perfect to listen to and understand this time of year, that provide the quintessential soundtrack and sound to the turning of leaves and drives ( Read more... )

I just finished the first book.  I liked the storyline that Rowling is presenting...but the actual caliber of the writing isn't something I am all that impressed with (although I've been told it improves as the series progresses).  Specifically, I was a bit let down by the climax when Harry has been captured and Quirrell is volunteering his entire ( Read more... )

is the title for a new film coming out by J.J. Abrams (creator of LOST and Alias and Felicity).    CHECK OUT the trailer.  And the entire advertising campaign for it so far as been viral, with various false websites that provide images and puzzles to be solved (similar to the LOST Experience game last summer).  In casting the movie, no scripts or ( Read more... )

"Contemporary culture is plagued by the passion to possess.  The unreasoned boast abounds that the good life is found in accumulation, that 'more is better.'  Indeed, we often accept this notion without question, with the result that the lust for affluence in contemporary society has become psychotic: it has completely lost touch with reality."
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There's a maxim that goes: "The medium is the message."  Jesus doesn't just give a message; he is the message.  So as people who are involved deeply in the proclamation of good news, the "selves" we bring to others is radically important.

So what are we bringing to the table?

borrowed from http://sustainablefaith.com/index.html

Fresh peaches and ice cream.  One of the best things about the dwindling days of summer.  
That, and the nights getting colder.


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plain, noun  -  an area of land not significantly higher than adjacent areas and with relatively minor differences in elevation, commonly less than 500 ft. (150 m), within the area. 
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Well, it's hard to say who knows the news and who doesn't, especially with everything that has been going on over the last couple months...so I ( Read more... )

Incarnational.  It's the idea that God didn't just teach us timeless spiritual truths (or leave them for us in some ancient book)...but that he instead came and took on human skin and flesh and lived among us in a particular time and place and culture.  One of the strengths of the Christian gospel is its ability to be translated inot new and ( Read more... )