I’m no photographer. I depend on my subject matter to make the pictures look good. This not so little guy obliged me greatly. And can I just say that I want mandibles. Seriously, those little hand things that sit on each side of his mouth would be so useful. You could use them to keep a better grip on a messy burger, or hold your phone, or scratch your ears. So cool!
I posted a few other pics from our trip on flickr. Have a fantastic Sunday evening.
At the beginning of the year I set a goal for a certain number of books I was aiming to read this year. I think I am fairly far behind it right now. The goal was more to encourage me to continue to search out voices to hear. I don’t really read a book just to get through it. I’ve found myself slipping into an old habit of reading more than one book at a time and taking a while to finish any of them. Therefore, I am proposing to myself that I grab one book this weekend intending to read the whole thing in one go. I haven’t done such a thing in many years. I think the last time was grade nine while reading a fantasy series by David Eddings called The Belgariad (fantastic, as I recall – which would be why I read the whole five book series in one week).
So, tomorrow I’m going to turn pages in Post-Charismatic? by Rob McAlpine (aka RobbyMac). I’m not from the charismatic stream officially, but have interacted with the local Pentecostal and Vineyard churches quite often throughout my life. I’m especially interested in learning to engage more fully with this stream of Christianity to move forward into a more generous and spiritually expressive future. I’m excited about the opportunity to look both look backward while facing forward into a hopeful future together with my charismatic and post-charismatic sisters and brothers.
Oh, and Rob, I’m really sorry about the absence of picture on the amazon.ca page. That’s actually my fault and it will be corrected next week!
Pax
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All of us, every day of our lives, are influenced by a certain set of outside works. This list evolves continually. As we change and are changed by our surrounding canon we adopt new strands and discard older strands. There is an interesting interplay here between what is adopted as we grow to need a new canon and the influence that our canon has on our need to change its very self. It’s an odd chicken/egg thing.
Here are the texts that are creating me today. The rules for creating the life canon were found here via Trip Fuller of number 6. (no particular order). I added one thing to the setup – formative community. I just wanted to get away from the thingness of the list. Not that the authors and artists mentioned here are things, but my interactions with material output of individuals does not fully comprise my life canon, as I see it.
1. The Cobalt Season, But I Tell You (music)
2. Intuitive Leadership, Tim Keel (book)
3. Preaching Reimagined, Doug Pagitt (book)
4. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Brian Eno and David Byrne (music)
5. Twitter
6. Homebrewed Christianity Podcast
7. missioning.ning.com (community)
8. Juno (Film)
9. An Emergent Manifesto of Hope, Ed. Pagitt and Jones (book)
10. Rawdon Street Baptist Church (community)
So what is your life canon?
