Mistaken identity happens a lot.

Ira Glass, This American Life, Karen Sloan

Other Economies are Possible!

I updated the blog software, not sure if that was a good idea. Trying to decide if I should use tags or just get rid of them. Sorry if this shows up in your reader.

“If we have food and covering, with these we shall be content.”
- 1 Timothy 6:8
 

One of the greatest struggles for a Christian in the consumerist American culture that we are a part of is to be content. You are daily bombarded on all sides by hundreds of advertisements telling you that you need this product or that. Even within the church, Sunday mornings continue to perpetuate word-of-mouth advertising about the new outfit, restaurant or electronics purchase. Is it even possible to step back from that culture, that has been so …

Through out the week I post a lot more then the daily post you get in your feedreader or email. I post small posts called ‘asides‘ throughout the day. For now, you can only read the asides on the website, but they have a custom look so they are easy to recognize. I figured the best way to get you interested is to give you a little sneak peak of what types of things I’m posting. Below is the asides from the past week. If you find them interesting, then …

My friend, Bryan, wrote this earlier this week:
On one of our evening walks recently, we realized that we could see the glow from all of the televisions in all of the living rooms on our block. It was just past Dark, that time of the evening that casts a blue light over everything. There was a slight cool breeze, and leaves were drifting down all around us from the canopy of old trees that live on our street. The air was just crisp enough to need a light sweater. It …

Sam sent me this link discussing how renting is better then buying a home.