February 2012
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Anonymous asked: Hi Chase, Three years ago, we shared some thoughts over the same picture: on m my blog under -- ghost-of-horatio-alger-visits-frank. It is a powerful image. Happy Saturday!
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and the world spins madly on: A Prayer →
Please, God, would You write straight with my crooked lines ?
A PRAYER
O God, I cannot undo the past, or make it never have happened! -neither can You. There are some things that are not possible even for You -but not many!
I ask You, humbly, and from the bottom of my heart: Please, God, would You write straight with my crooked lines? Out of the serious mistakes of my life will You make...
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On relationships...
Anecdotally, I greatly disapprove of this talk of gf/bf/relationships as if they’re commodities. “Want one”/”Have one”/etc. …it just puts me off to think that the person I could end up with for the rest of my life is comparable to something I could pick up at Wal-Mart.
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Anonymous asked: why didnt you answer my question about having a gf? do you not want one?
Holy Spirit Swag: ”The winners of the world... →
holyspiritswag:
”The winners of the world system, those who have all the worldly advantages, they’ve always been okay with the kind of Christianity that doesn’t challenge anything. [They’ve] always been okay with the kind of Christianity that is about what Christ can do for us rather than what Christ can do in…
January 2012
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“I have a nagging hunch that the gospel’s power in our own time is about to be...”
– Walter Wink, Engaging the Powers (via catechumenate)
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The Politics of Gender in Occupy Nashville →
elli-mae:
“Occupy Nashville’s problem has not just been that women get abused there. More broadly, our problem is that when men and women call out that abuse, they are told that ‘that’s not what this movement is about’ and that feminism is a distraction from our larger goals, the goals that supposedly unify all of the 99%. While this kind of dodging doesn’t always fly, it works surprisingly...
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We can be Heroes. →
The Justice League takes on the Horn of Africa Crisis. 100% Donations matched.
We are Love's megaphone. →
somuchdependsupon:
My response to the Mars Hill fiasco.
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and at once i knew; i was not magnificent.: But... →
But American Christians, I must say to you as I said to the Roman Christians years ago, “Be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.” Or, as I said to the Philippian Christians, “Ye are a colony of heaven.” This means that although you live in the colony…
This is so good. Thank God for voices like MLK. Resist the powers that be if they resist the...
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David Bowden Poetry: A Glimpse into Non-Violence →
davidbowden:
For many of us the question of violence or non-violence never really gets asked. We assume that war is necessary, self-defense is righteous, and physical punishment is just. We allow ourselves not only to have enemies, but to fight them, imprison them, and even kill them in the name of peace,…
#pacifistfightclub
She's emo? You'd cut too, if you've been through...
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“The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving...”
– Dorothy Day (via classyliving)
Tea and Occupy - a discussion →
somuchdependsupon:
occupynashville:
Here is the video from today’s MSNBC roundtable discussion between 3 occupiers (from NY, LA, and Nashville), and three tea partiers.
What do you think?
You did a lovely job, Miss Elli.
Also: LOL at the Tea Partier talking about the EPA as though it’s a new thing from the Obama administration.
Technically speaking, a very well presented, unbiased...
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“In a world characterized by cyclical violence, we are to lay down our swords and...”
– @greg_boyd #pacifistfightclub(.com)
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“Keep pursuing the faith, my brother. Your worship means everything. Surely, God...”
– The January 3, 2011 New Year’s Resolution Letter from Justin Potesta to Christian Tenbrook. (via sonofastoryteller)
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“We have more and more ways to communicate but less and less to say.”
– Pico Iyer, “The Joy of Quiet” | New York Times