White hipsters often use their interest in Black culture to claim moral high ground, while giving nothing back.” -Hip: The History, John Leland [via]

Here you go… Watch them, I promise you like it…

I’m an advocate for people moving out of suburbia for a number of reasons, but I can respect people’s decisions to stay there. Will Samson is one of those people I’ve come to see as a conscience suburbunite. He recently posted a letter from someone else about 10 Ways to Live Intentionally in the Suburbs and I think they are worth checking out:
1) Live with others from your church community
Whether you share your home with another person or family, or whether you have several families that have homes in close …

If you didn’t know, I’m writing this book. Just a fun little project, a fiction piece, an attempt to articulate in a creative form my feelings on how it looks like to live out the faith, following the Gospel.
I’m realizing following the Gospel is dangerous. I’m also realizing that following the Gospel is so obvious. There are some things Jesus says that are confusing and quite stuck in the cultural context, however most of what he said is pretty plain. In the book I’ve set up the characters in a …

The Nick and Josh Podcast starring none other then Me.

Some nice ways to Recycle Your Socks

I’ll take Jesus any day

there’s a time for peace and there is a time for wara time to forgive and a time to settle the scorea time for babies to lose their livesa time for hunger and genocidethis too shall be made right
-This Too Shall Be Made Right, Derek Webb, the Ringing Bell