The Overflow Project by Brian Wolters

This morning’s post comes from Brian “Wolt” Wolters. Wolt is the executive director of the Overflow Project . The issue of access to fresh water is one that I am particularly concerned about and I think that The Overflow Project is a very creative response to this issue. I remember a report in my church’s bulletin [...]

Have We Lost Jesus at Christmas? by James Prescott.

The season of Christmas is fast approaching and the frenzy of activity leading up to our Christmas celebrations is growing but have we lost Jesus in the midst of this frenzy? This morning’s post in the series Jesus Is Coming What Do We expect?  comes from James Presscott. He has been blogging about Advent and [...]

What Are You Getting for Christmas? – Google Knows

Monday mornings especially during the season of Advent I love to browse through various blogs and websites reading Advent reflections. This morning I was disgusted to see my last night’s online Christmas shopping perfectly reflected in all the ads that appeared as I browsed. I put up with them on facebook and gmail but this [...]

Selecting Toys for the Holidays – How Do We Choose?

Yesterday I posted on ways to simplify and celebrate this Christmas. This morning I received the ePistle from Evangelicals for Social Action.  It contained this link to a great resource Truce 2011-2012: toy Selection Guide published by TRUCE on how to choose toys for Christmas. I really appreciate resources like this that help all of us to [...]

Simplify and Celebrate – What Makes for a Better Christmas or a Better World?

Christmas is coming. We know it well because all the demons of consumerism and materialism have reared their ugly heads all around us. Most of us find ourselves in a real bind. Do we have a gift free Christmas and turn our backs entirely on consumerism? Do we buy only gifts that come from fair [...]

The Price of Tomatoes: Keeping Slavery Alive in Florida

  I love tomatoes and as those of you who follow this blog regularly know Tom & I are still waiting hopefully for some of our crop to ripen this year and we are not hopeful as the weather in the Pacific NW continues to be cool.  So can imagine I am anticipating we will [...]

Lets Talk About Health not Weight

My post yesterday entitled Obesity Rates In US Higher than AIDS Rates in Africa has resulted in a lively discussion with a friend who thinks we as a culture are obsessed with weight.  And I am in complete agreement with her.  As I said yesterday my concerns are more about health then they are about weight. [...]

Borders is Closing – What Does it Mean

This morning I read with sadness this article on Publishers Weekly about the demise of Borders Books. The future of Borders has become much clearer with a motion filed late Friday that asks the court to approve a new motion that will permit it to sell “substantially all of its assets” by July 29. If [...]

The New Shared Economy – Is God Up To Something New?

Yesterday I wrote about the new shared economy and the concept of collaborative consumption and commented that I thought this could be a move of God. Later in the day I conducted a mini garden seminar with my students here at OMSC.  At one point I used Graham Kerr’s comment “chefs compete, gardeners share” and [...]

Collaborative Consumption – Sharing and Caring Takes on New Meaning

Yesterday I came across a fascinating article on the Grist website that I would recommend.  It is entitled Sharing and Caring: The Implications of Collaborative Consumption and talks about the new sharing and caring economy that is emerging across the globe partly as  result of social networks that have made it so much easier for people [...]