Waving or Drowning?

The Shack Redux

(Contrary to appearances I am in fact NOT on the payroll of The Drew Marshall Show. That being said...)

This should be good. William Young, author of The Shack, will be on Drew's show this week (April 5), along with Brennan Manning by the looks of it. Wow.

(And don't forget - It's not too late get in on our fantasy actor picks for The Shack movie!)

Bruxy & Deepak Redux

Another reminder...

The audio from The Drew Marshall Show from last Saturday, with Bruxy Cavey and Deepak Chopra, is now available on Drew's site. (Scroll down to March 22. It's usually up by the Friday following the Saturday show.)

I loaded it up on my ipod for the flight home last night, but Dr. Chopra's phone line wasn't very clear and I gave up trying to listen to it from 40,000 feet. I talked to Bruxy about it at lunch last week though, and he said it was a good experience. Apparently it was Deepak's first evangelical interview ever, and they wanted to make it a positive experience. In the first file Drew and Bruxy interact with Deepak and his daughter Mallika, and look for common ground. The second file is some follow-up conversation between Drew and Bruxy, and some callers (I think.)

I'm going to give it another try today.

The Economics of Enough Redux

Just a reminder...

The Economics of Enough, with Paul Williams and Dave Diewert, is tonight. Should be an excellent discussion, and I'll be there recording the audio.

Right Brain Redux

You may recall my post on Jill Bolte Taylor's TED presentation on the brain from a few weeks back, and the ensuing discussion.

Robin Good has posted the entire transcript of her presentation, which may be helpful for those of you interested.

Popcorn

Love this, via ComputerLove:

"Popcorn was the classic electronic piece from the 60’s used countless times as backing music to represent modernity. Here, its composer, Gershon Kingsley, plays it today, on a concert grand."

Cultivate

Crashed at Pernell's place last night, hanging out at The Freeway today for the Cultivate Gathering.

Good times.

More Reading...

Wednesday I had a fantastic lunch meeting with Mark Vander Vennen, co-athour of Hope in Troubled Times, and walked out with a copy of Justice, Not Just Us, and Beyond Poverty and Affluence: Toward an Economy of Care, as well as a couple of other articles. Yesterday it was lunch with my friend and former World Vision colleague Gord King. Gord left me with Justice, Mercy & Humility: Integral Mission and the Poor, and a couple papers he's written for his D.Min program on Rene Padilla's work.

And here's how the two tie together.

I was telling Gord about my lunch with Mark, and how much Hope in Troubled Times had impacted me. He laughed and said he had been in a book store with Rene Padilla (in either Vancouver or Buenos Aires - I'm not sure which) when Rene saw Hope on the counter. He pointed to Bob Goudzwaard's name on the cover and said, "I know that guy." So Gord bought him a copy of the book.

It's a funny old world.

John Legend's "Pride"

John Legend performs PRIDE (In The Name of Love)
by ElectricArtists

(via @U2 blog)

Chairman Mikhail and Saint Francis - The Retraction

Oooops. Never mind.

(Just sitting here at The Freeway on a couch next to Pernell, who I am reasonably certain is, in fact, a Christian. But, he's never been the leader of the former Soviet Union, as far as I can tell...)

TSK and BMc

Andrew Jones has posted an email exchange he had recently with Brian McLaren around some questions Andrew had regarding Everything Must Change. I must admit I was surprised by the questions, but not by the answers. Further evidence, I think, that this was and is a ground-breaking book. I'm looking forward to Seattle in a couple of weeks, and Rwanda several weeks after that! (via Bill)