Posted in up over my head on January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Got to hear Marc Ford at the Inn Saturday.
Marc Ford, Steady Rollin’ Man (Johnson)
Ford headed Burning Tree before becoming lead guitarist for the Black Crowes (depending on who you ask) during their best years. He’s more recently worked with Ben Harper (and the Blind Boys of Alabama), and produced [...]
Posted in lex agendi, worldly gain on January 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Despite what I believed as a child in West Texas, there are more than one kind of Baptist. I’m very interested in this story about non-Southern Baptist Baptists being called together to form connections along a different social agenda than that which defined their more “fundamentalist” brethren and sistren. It’s hard to tell yet where [...]
Posted in worldly gain on January 24, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Jim Wallis on the Daily Show.
*name that reference (without asking the internets), and I’ll buy you a soda.
P.S. For any interested, I updated my Best of 2007 post with a playlist.com set of samples. I’m working on user-friendly obscurity.
Posted in up over my head on January 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I”ve been listening to my best of 2007 for a few weeks now, and finding that I’m moving more slowly, mumbling more, and generally wispy and sluggish. I think in 2008, I’m going to try to have more kicking out of the jams. When I’m not sure where to start, there’s always the MC5. Any [...]
Posted in MLK, lex agendi on January 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Martin Luther King, August 28, 1963
If you have never watched the entire speech, here is a longer version. MLK’s vision was more than just a dream he imagined we could accomplish, and more than what the “American Dream” can provide. Here he stands in the prophetic tradition of announcing the coming [...]
Posted in MLK, lex agendi on January 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Martin Luther King, Jr., “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” April 3, 1968
(Closing only)
If you didn’t get a good enough sermon already today, the links below are the entire Memphis speech, for the cause of sanitation workers, given the evening before King’s assassination. Some of the accompanying slides are a little [...]
Posted in MLK, lex agendi on January 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Martin Luther King, “Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam”
Posted in Friday Night Videos, found it on the internets, lex agendi, worldly gain on January 19, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Shane Claiborne, author of Irresistible Revolution was here this week, and talked about the new book he’s worked on, Jesus for President, which comes with a nifty web site of “Counter-Propaganda” and a “Jesus for President Litany”. Claiborne was handing out pins, and I got one of these:
And, speaking of counter-propaganda, HT to Jay for [...]
Posted in me me me me me on January 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
5) Remember to take my own bags into the store with me.
4) Stabilize income
3) Focus on a dissertation topic
2) Get healthier
1) Write frequent and brief blogs
