the red pill

So, three strands came together in my mind, and led to an idea. First, a friend of mine had a very successful book sale recently - and he used the LibraryThing website to do it. He catalogued them all, and people could examine his library and make offers. Secondly, in the process of getting ready to move, one of the removal company reps asked, "if there was a fire and all your books were lost, would you know what they all were?" As I'd never catalogued them I figured I ought to do that as I packed them, and so I also got a LibraryThing account and have begun adding them, just over 200 done, maybe another 800 to go (not as many as I thought). I've added a link to my library at the bottom of the left hand column here. Thirdly, reading "Jesus for President" reminded me of some values my wife and I held dear a few years ago, that have not been forgotten, but have been less at the forefront of our lives. And one of those values is holding things in common, sharin...

I guess it's not surprising to many that I like Brian McLaren's writing and teaching. I don't agree with everything he writes and says, but his openness to a questioning, searching, real faith is appealing to me. This video comes from "The Work of the People" and a hat tip to the BU's E-Sweep today for pointing me to it. Go look and explore, the address will be in my links soon. Bromley, Wolverhampton - let's listen to the message of this little video and covenant to know and express what is real.