So lately I’ve been reading Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove’s The New Monasticism: What it has to say to Today’s Church during work breaks and in my time around the apartment. Wilson-Hartgrove is the co-founder of a neomonastic inner-city community known as Rutba House in North Carolina. The book was definitely on my reading list for awhile but [...]
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Neomonastic voices
Posted in Life, books, tagged urban monasticism on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some thoughts on my faith and electoral politics
Posted in Life, Links, Obama, books, tagged faith, politics on October 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So I’ve been doing quite a bit of processing in the last 48 hours or so – not to mention the last year or so of my life – regarding how my faith and politics interact. I have been at times an outspoken supporter of Barack Obama this year (and at other times more of [...]
Less meat, more sustainable diets
Posted in Life, books, tagged books, Food on October 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What the 21st Century Will Taste Like – Esquire
So it really chilled me when he said, “America better prepare for some uncomfortable changes. Things might get really ugly.” ยท You’ve seen the articles, right there on the front page next to equally uplifting stories about oil, the economy, and the war: The cost of food–of [...]
Three Cups of Tea
Posted in Globalization, books, tagged China, Olympics, Sports on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So I devoured Three Cups of Tea in my downtime at home last week (it was sitting around for awhile, my bro got it for me for Christmas or thereabouts). The book is about one man’s (Greg Mortenson) mission to build schools, especially for girls, in the mountainous regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Definitely a [...]
Oracle Bones
Posted in Links, books, tagged books, China, Links on May 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just finished Peter Hessler’s Oracle Bones and I have to say, it was really a marvelous read. A 450-page non-fiction narrative examination of modern (actually more like turn of the 21st century, which isn’t quite modern anymore…) China, the book is insightful and eminently readable. I must say reading stuff about China is a [...]
Joy in the Journey: A Jesus for President Review
Posted in books, tagged books, peace, urban monasticism on May 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today I finished reading Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw’s Jesus for President (if you want to buy it through Amazon, might I encourage you to use the Servant Partners amazon purchasing link on my blogroll). J4P was especially meaningful to me now because of some of the things I’ve been thinking about – rising nationalism [...]
