Two by Mumford and Sons: Come Thou Fount & Awake My Soul

Dang, I just love this. These guys are great and a new album is set for release in September. I dare you not to be utterly moved by the song in the second half of the second video. Between these two videos, this might be the best fifteen minutes of your week.

Quote by Ray Bradbury on Writing

In honor of the art of writing and the joy of life, here is a swift kick in the pants by Ray Bradbury...

Where Do You Live?

Would this suit you? I can't imagine living like this with kids, but then maybe I don't have a big enough imagination. Still, it's a really interesting idea that certainly challenges contemporary Western cultural assumptions about our use of space as well as what we build homes out of. I wonder how economical it actually is?

Hauerwas 101

I just came across a video interview of Stanley Hauerwas that is a perfect beginning point for those interested in Hauerwas who have not yet delved into reading him. Several "famous" lines and stories make there way in here, which made it enjoyable to revisit. Any newbie's to Hauerwas will find it a valuable and challenging introduction!

Kingdom Entrepreneurs

I once heard N.T. Wright talk about being "kingdom entrepreneurs." It wasn't a whole lecture, but a little fragment of a reflection based on his reading the Scripture. I think he was talking about Romans, which he seems to do a lot, thankfully.

In this video he gives a few vignettes of this notion of being kingdom entrepreneurs. It's worth the watch and hopefully it stirs something up in your heart for your own context.

It resonates with what I was trying to say in my last sermon on John 20:19-31, specifically the part where Jesus says, "As the Father has sent me, I also send you." And how John's gospel in general is just messy and earthy: The Word became flesh and dwelt among us; Jesus spits on the ground, makes some mud, and puts it on the blind man's eyes; He BBQ's fish with His disciples, smoke in his eyes and fish guts on his hands; He breathes the Holy Spirit into them, reminding us of a God who put his hands in the dust of the earth to make humans.

Whenever I talk about the how Heaven and Earth are beginning to overlap, how the kingdom of God is beginning to appear, I will often say that it's something like a cosmic cross-fade. It's like when you pause right in between scenes so that you can see both of them at the same time. The old creation is cross-fading into the new. The kingdom is inaugarted in Jesus, but it's not here yet, although we are beginning to see it. This video helps us capture a glimpse of what that might look like.

I warn you, these kinds of things require imagination.

Peter Rollins and Unknowing

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The Embrace of Unknowing from Peter Rollins on Vimeo.