http://www.radicalcongruency.com Spirituality // Technology // Emerging Ecclesiology Thu, 15 May 2008 18:25:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you've seen the breathtaking and profound 1986 film The Mission, you know of the musical talents of the native people encountered by the colonizers and missionaries who came to South and Central America in the 1600s and 1700s. NPR has an amazing story on the revival of baroque music in ... http://www.radicalcongruency.com/20080515-the-music-of-the-mission-baroque-in-bolivia This site shows up very well in search engine results, and one of the top posts attracting search engine traffic is this one on whether bisphenol A in Nalgene bottles is dangerous. I've used a Nalgene religiously since 2000, and have consumed probably 2,500 gallons of water using it. In fact, ... http://www.radicalcongruency.com/20080427-are-nalgene-bottles-unsafe-part-3 Rodney Olsen recently returned from a Compassion International trip to the Dominican Republic, and has a post about breaking the cycle of poverty. Rodney's group was supposed to go to Haiti, but food riots there forced them back to Miami, where they regrouped to head to the Dominican Republic. This morning ... http://www.radicalcongruency.com/20080419-crisis-in-haiti-poor-stave-off-hunger-by-eating-mud The United Way of King County has published an ethnographic study of homelessness (PDF) that shatters many of the myths and generalizations about homeless people. From the introduction: Fundraising for the Campaign to End Chronic Homelessness is at its halfway point, and the associated resources are now beginning to be deployed in ... http://www.radicalcongruency.com/20080411-who-are-the-homeless Having been to a few churches other than the one I helped to start in the past few months, I've come to the conclusion that I am very, very hard to please. I almost always encounter something I'm uncomfortable with, and not necessarily in a good way. As I've mentioned, that ... http://www.radicalcongruency.com/20080406-can-people-shaped-by-consumerism-be-happy-in-church If you realized that my previous post about church was written in celebration of April 1, you might be wondering what I really think. The truth is that we've been going to The Ohana Project for several weeks, and plan to continue doing so. This is in spite of the ... http://www.radicalcongruency.com/20080405-churchreally I was watching TV the other day and this commercial for the We Campaign to stop global warming caught my attention: Terrablog points out that the narrator of this clip is none other than William H. Macy, which I didn't realize when I watched it. It's an inspiring commercial - I ... http://www.radicalcongruency.com/20080405-we-can-solve-it-campaign-climate-change One of the coolest things Daniel showed me when he got his MacBook Pro last year was how to organize photos using Aperture. When I switched to Mac in August, one of the first programs I bought was Aperture, and I immediately imported all of my old digital photos, which ... http://www.radicalcongruency.com/20080401-organizing-photos-with-aperture As I said in my post "Professionalism" a few months ago, one of the things I'm tired of with church is the lack of professionalism. Amy and I have been doing different things church-wise over the last few months, and while it's been a good time of decompression, I think ... http://www.radicalcongruency.com/20080331-on-going-back-to-church Mike Morrell from The Ooze says: The Ooze, the Web's most prolific 'emerging church & friends' website, is looking for 50 participants in a unique partnership with quality publishers. You will be mailed books for blog review on an every-other-month to quarterly basis, free of charge. These are books on culture, ... http://www.radicalcongruency.com/20080319-the-ooze-looking-for-bloggers-free-books