engagement

It says in scripture that in the same way that God is ONE, a husband and wife should be ONE. We both know that sin has fractured our world, and has fractured marriages, where they are no longer ONE.

Corrie and I believe that two people who have given themselves to each other are supposed to give the world a glimpse of hope, a display of what God is like, a bit of ONEness on earth.




I want to give the world this glimpse, this display, with Corrie.

I desire...
To serve her, and serve the world along side her.
To lay down my life for her, as we lay down our life for those around us.
To love her, and love the world along side her.

a return and a poem

1 Cor 15:1-6 
Paul tells them to return to the gospel, this is of first importance.

PRAISE

I cannot say it with mere words
Convincingly
So
I sing it with the life I live
Unflinchingly

. . .

copyright 2001, Linford Detweiler

a 5x5 of coffee

my good friend jeffrey bondorew shot this 5x5. i like the vibe. i like the bear smoke,



Dessert 5x5 with audio from Jeffrey Bondorew on Vimeo.

a friday poem

The Great Commission


There was a girl
in the eleventh grade
named Valerie
who told me
I would do great things
For God.

I've been trying to write a poem ever since.

[linford]

george macdonald: justice, hell and atonement

An interesting discussion on judgement, hell, and atonement is going on at this theology blog. I'm interested in what people think about it.


The blog post is an analysis of a George MacDonald sermon that begins by asking us to think about the nature of justice and punishment... Are justice and punishment the same thing? This is an important question because when Christians speak of hell as "just" they are implicitly drawing an equivalence between the "punishment" of sin and God's "justice." But MacDonald wants to push back on that notion, to suggest that justice is a far richer concept than punishment. And if this is so, no amount of punishment in hell gets God closer to achieving justice.
CLICK HERE - for the post and discussion.

derek webb takes on gnarles and sufjan

been a slow month - been posting most things to facebook - need to figure out a better pattern. like... post here and then put a link on twitter/facebook. 

or... post nothing :)

i found this today - the gnarles barley cover is great.

derek webb covers sufjan, gnarls barkley…

MAY 27, 2010

by jalldredge

I posted a while back that singer-songwriter Derek Webb has embarked on a year-long album project entitled Democracy Vol. 1.  Webb invited fans who bought special editions of his last albumStockholm Syndrome to vote on songs that they would like him to cover.  He will then release an MP3 every month in 2010 to complete the project.  The last two months have been incredible additions.  Check out his covers of “Chicago” by Sufjan Stevens and “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul” by Gnarls Barkley below.  Sign up to receive the songs HERE.

the undocumented and the laws of the bible

When I began hearing Christians chat about how to follow the Bible when it comes to the undocumented and illegals, I was a bit amazed both by the right and the left. This piece by Brad Hirschfield is exacting in its biblical awareness and shrewd in application: the issue is not so much about how folks got here as about whether or not they live according to the law. Does the Bible, so far as you know, ever say anything about the legality or illegality of entering a country? Does it speak about how to live once in someone else's land?

Q: Illegal immigrants are flouting U.S. laws, but does affluent America (or Arizona for that matter) have a larger moral or spiritual obligation to help illegal immigrants who are trying to better their lives? What about religious obligations to welcome the stranger? Are we our brother's keeper?

The Hebrew Bible mentions obligations to so-called strangers on numerous occasions. The message is pretty much always the same and perhaps best summed up by the words of Leviticus 19:33-34, When a stranger dwells among you in your land, do not taunt him. The stranger who dwells with you shall be like a native among you, and you shall love him like yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt--I am the Lord, your God.

But who that stranger is that deserves such equality and even love is not necessarily a parallel to the millions of people who cross our borders illegally every year. Or perhaps it is. The stranger of the Hebrew Bible is better understood as a resident alien, a non-citizen who agrees to abide by the laws of the community into which he or she has come. To that extent then, many if not most, illegal aliens in this country, would not qualify. On the other hand, there is no mention in the Bible of barriers to entry into the Israelite nation, so perhaps they do....

While other biblical texts and traditions could be introduced into the debate on immigration, based on those verses bearing directly on the issue, the path forward is actually pretty clear: how one got here is largely irrelevant, though the obligations that must be assumed in order to stay are significant.

Biblical "immigration policy" was not about maintaining the purity of the community or fear of withholding the benefits of membership, but it was quite clear about the obligations that needed to be met to enjoy the privileges (not rights) of such membership. It would be quite a step forward to see people actually look to that model for guidance instead of simply thumping their Bibles to prove that which they already believe anyway.

installation: clean drinking water

Solidarités International: Water talks from La Boite Concept on Vimeo.
Agence BDDP & Fils
Directeur 
Artistique
 : 
David
 Derouet






Concepteur-
Rédacteur
 :
 Emmanuel 
de 
Dieuleveult




after school arts closing show

promo 1

interesting

i’ve bled for my country, i’ve sweated for my country, i’ve cried myself to sleep for my country -- which is a lot more than some people who are passing judgment on me have done. i would rather go sit in prison than go to Iraq.


- patrick hart, u.s. army sergeant with almost 10 years on active duty, who went to canada rather than face a second deployment to Iraq. (Source: USA Today)

NEW MUSIC: Janelle Monáe

i first saw Janelle Monáe in a video called TIGHT ROPE. 

I loved it. her new album just came out.

The songs zip gleefully from genre to genre, mostly grounded in R&B and funk, but spinning out into rap, pastoral British folk, psychedelic rock, disco, cabaret, cinematic scores, and whatever else strikes her fancy. It's about as bold as mainstream music gets, marrying the world-building possibilities of the concept album to the big tent genre-mutating pop of Michael Jackson and Prince in their prime.

A REVIEW AND A STREAM

The ArchAndroid

flawless

one of the most incredible things i have ever seen.
this is modern still-life-like genius. alex roman is incredible.
A FULL-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal.
please watch it all. full screen.

The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

ASA 3rd graders

a modern telling of the beatitudes

blessed are those who don’t have it all together.

blessed are those who have run out of strength, ideas, will power, resolve, or energy.

blessed are those who ache because of how severely out of whack the world is.

blessed are those stumble, trip, and fall in the same place again and again.

blessed are those who on a regular basis have a dark day in which despair seems to be a step behind them wherever they go.

blessed are you, for God is with you, God is on your side, God meets you in that place.

the gospel is the counter-intuitive, joyous, exuberant news that Jesus has brought the unending, limitless, stunning love of God to even us.

grace

i'm in seattle. i love it.


"we can only be said to be alive in those moments 
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."
 -thornton wilder

a sabbath

it's saturday. 
i am preparing for my monday sabbath. 
when do you stop?

new sage album & a beautiful first single

download the new single: [BEST OF TIMES]
(it's pretty stunning - the composer who did the soundtrack for the film Amelie)
  
i've been drawn to his work for so long now. whether i'm in agreement with him on a subject or not - his honesty is always refreshing. we need more of this. 


new sage francis album entitled LI(F)E: the record drops on may 11th, 2010 and features music that was written and/or performed by Califone, Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse, Jason Lytle of Grandaddy, Chris Walla of Death Cab for Cutie, Tim Fite, Calexico, DeVotchKa, Yann Tiersen, Buck 65 and more. The album was produced by Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Iron & Wine.) 


The cover art was done by formerly local artist and illustrator Shepard Fairey

http://www.sagefrancis.net/

roses

"don't strew me with roses after I'm dead... give me my roses now." 
-thomas f. healey

new music: freelance whales

i'm going to see them tonight.
they seem accessible and smart. 
i just started listening to them - we'll see if they hold up.
i'm going to see them on record store day at rainbow books and music.


*i added the song STARRING in the 'record of the day' window to the right.


below is a video.


Freelance Whales - Generator 2nd Floor

Freelance Whales | MySpace Music Videos

new film we made

resurrection rain from andrew mook on Vimeo.