Archive for August, 2009
Guerilla Gardening
Environmental activists are finding new ways to bring beauty to abandoned spaces and run down neighborhoods: seed bombs! There are even instructions for making your own.
Lost and Found
If a year ago you had told me — a semi-normal guy born and raised by missionary parents in the ways of the American evangelical — that I’d abandon my church of fifteen years, no longer be attending regular church services and entertaining Catholicism, well… I might have believed you, actually. That’s because last year, on Easter Sunday of all days, I became an atheist in the pew of my own church.
Avoid Weekend Blues
Ah, weekends. We’re nearly there! It’s enough to make a person turn off the computer, duck and bolt from work early.
Weekends are often devoted to catching up, or enjoying the pleasure of being outdoors. While we are all entitled to take some moments to ourselves, I want to encourage you to do more [...]
Seeing the Invisible
Millions of people pass through Howrah train station in Kolkota, India, but there is an invisible life that few travelers actually see. Around 200 orphaned children live at the train station, huffing glue to suppress their appetites and living a violent, tragic, almost animalistic lifestyle.
ost of the kids have no idea how they even [...]
‘It was just like being at sea on an aircraft carrier’
The UK’s Telegraph shares Henry Diltz’s photographs and commentary on Woodstock, which took place 40 years ago this month.
Revering the King
Reverence for an earthly king inspires reverence for the Heavenly King in Jessica Mock’s latest column.
Scripture of the Week
“Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter— when you see the naked, to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? ”
Beauty in Chaos
Artist Mary Viducich visits the chaos and beauty of India and comes away with a better understanding of how we are linked in the world. And not to mention, some beautiful photographs.
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