July 01, 2008
Newest N&J Podacast Interview is Available
Make sure to check out the latest podcast with me and Josh, plus an interview with my good friend Pete Rollins.
You can also check out some other fine folks that we support such as The Church Basement Road Show and The Homebrewed Christianity Podcast. The Homebrewed guys are recording some nice interviews so be sure to check out their podcast and subscribe to it. And check out the calendar for the Church Basement Road Show so that you can swing by and have a rip roaring good time with some crazy holy ghost revialists. They also have some good videos up on YouTube.
Enjoy watching and listening...
joshua c
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June 30, 2008
engaGE!
Last year engaGE Geneva was all the rave. International people in the Geneva community coming together to learn the art of blossoming where you are planted.
This year the engaGE has a new range of projects for people to participate in. If you are interested in participating, click here to sign-up for the projects and help make a ripple effect of goodness in Geneva.
engaGE!
jc
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Blogging Transition
Well, it has been a little over a week now since Laura and I have been back in the USA. Its been a literal whirlwind of activity.
So far, here is what is has looked like:
-Arrive on 20 June;
-23-25th- Look for apartments and visit ones we found online;
-25th- Sign on new apartment;
-26th- Travel to Tuscaloosa Alabama to look for a car & buy one;
-27-28th- Spend some time with family in Tuscaloosa, including new nephew Jake;
-29th- Drive back to Atlanta.
So yeah, nine days, one apartment, one car and today we should be able to pick up our shipment of stuff from Switzerland at US customs. They've been holding it! I can assure them, there are no terrorist manuals or stuff like that in there. Just a bunch of books and a few pretty decent movies.
On Saturday, Laura and I also celebrated the big 5. Yep, that right, it has flown by, but it has been five years now since we've been married. In many ways, it is hard to believe it has been that long, in others, it seems like it has been longer. But hey, thats life, right? We are very excited about the next 5 and really can not wait to see what will come!
As for our little puddle hopper, aka our car, we bought a 2004 Pontiac Vibe. Yeah, we are feeling pretty good about it. Gets a lot of mpgs and is quite comfortable.
So that's life here. Hopefully, more substantial blogging will return soon. But then again, even some of that will depend on wifi availability. Wait for it....its coming!
peace...
jc
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June 27, 2008
Seriously Good Conversations
Since I am not sure how often I am going to have wifi, I am going to post a end of the week SGC. I am squatting on wifi at panera bread mostly.
Corey Hau's 'Sanity Amongst the Concrete'.
Phyllis Tickle's 'Pagans and Patriarchs'.
Per Caritatem's 'Begbie on Music as an Outpouring of Love'
Prodigal Kiwi's 'Interpreting Scripture, Mission and Layers of Significance'.
the church and postmodern culture's 'Charles Taylor, Pluralism, and the Postmodern Condition'.
Jason Clark's reminder and book recommendation 'Beyond smells & bells: the wonder and power of Christian liturgy'.
And finally, Peter Rollins' 'Batman as ultimate capitalist hero'.
The other good news is that Laura and I now officially have an apartment in Atlanta. We've also got a car just today. More on the new ride vibe soon.
peace and stay tuned! More updates on the transition to come!
joshua c
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June 24, 2008
Apple=Community Part 2
So a few weeks back I posted a video about Apple culture. Well now, even more of what we-who-love Apple suspected is proving true according to Josh Brown.
Josh recently posted this blog about Apple culture in which he described the sense of relief with retail-that-works-for-good and a memorial service (of sorts) for one of the 'family' of the Apple store he now works at.
Here is part of the post:
"I’ve had so many positive experiences being a part-time specialist. And I hesitate to even write about the positive things that I’ve experienced because I don’t want to step on any toes by blogging about work. All that to say, I went in as a part-time specialist being pretty skeptical of the retail world. Granted I love Apple computers and have had both the hardware and software enrich and make my life easier for years. But I wrongly assumed that just because it was a retail company that it would be similar to my other prior retail experiences. And my hang-ups with commercialism in general.
I was wrong. Apple has been amazing. And the culture you become a part of when you use an Apple computer is only that much stronger when you become a part of the growing family who work for the company."
Read the rest here.
Again, as we all suspected, at least those of us who love Apple, it is more than a consumer good. It is a culture and a community to which we belong. Even after interacting for a brief period this week with Josh and his co-workers, they love what they do, and the goodness they add to the lives of those they care for.
Stay tuned for more updates of life in the community called Apple.
plotting goodness...
joshua
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Tuesday is for Thomas
Merton wrote:
"If you imagine the solitary as "one" who has numerically isolated himself from "many others," who has simply gone out of the crowd to hang up his individual number on a rock in the desert, and there to receive messages denied to the many, you have a false and demonic solitude. The true solitary does not seek himself, but loses himself. There is One solitude in which all persons are at once together and alone. The paradox of solitude is that its true ground is universal love -- and true solitude is the undivided unity of love. Hence, we live in a world in which we say, "God is dead," and do so in a sense rightly, since we are no longer capable of experiencing the truth that we are completely rooted and grounded in His Love. The answer is not found in words, but by living on a certain level of consciousness. These pages are, then, a landscape of the mind, a level of consciousness: the peace, the silence of aloneness in which the Hearer listens, and the Hearing is No-Hearing.
Where is silence? Where is solitude? Where is Love? Ultimately, these cannot be found anywhere except in the ground of our own being. There, in the silent depths, there is no more distinction between the I and the Not-I. There is redemptive Love. There we encounter God.
Unfortunately, modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious results.Their desire is only an illusion which cannot find fulfillment."
ouch...
jc
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