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apoplecticskeptic: New Radicals — You Get What You Give My favorite song for the first truly beautiful day when you can feel that spring is actually here. Every year. Still the best. yes.

FINALLY GETTING SOMEONE TO AGREE THAT TAKING THE BIBLE LITERALLY IS SILLY

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kidpres: Kid President asked the world to dance. You did. Here’s just a sample of the kinds of things we get in our inbox every single day. Wow, we love you people. I love everything about this. This song, these people, all the dancing! (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Shaped by my Houses.

“It looks like the inside of a wedding cake.” said a friend, and for the first time I saw this house of worship that made the backdrop of nearly all my childhood memories in a different light. This church, with it’s baby blue walls that catapulted upwards until they were able to touch the elaborate stark whiteContinue reading “Shaped by my Houses.”

I’m proud of you.

We’ve spent most of our lives together, nearly every great memory I have involves him. We have an adorable picture of us, being forced to dance as kids…he a small-for-his-age four-year-old, me a near giant two-year-old, my head hovering approximately two inches above his. We could make a really moving wedding slideshow with all ofContinue reading “I’m proud of you.”

kidpres: Thank you CNN and Soledad O’Brien for the chance to tell our story this morning! The Pep Talk video was dedicated to 2 year old Gabbi who is fighting cancer (like a boss). Her dad took this screen shot this morning as they watched.

bradblog: My little brother in law and I started a project because we wanted to put something happy on the internet. The first video went online in July and got passed around by family and friends. We had so much fun making it we made another one and then another one. In October we wereContinue reading

The time will come When, with elation You will greet yourself arriving At your door, in your own mirror And each will smile at the other’s welcome And say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart To itself, to the strangerContinue reading

A Rwandan, the Episcopal church, and my attitude toward America.

It’s fairly typical of a socially progressive, non-violent passive, young Christian liberal seminarian to be cynical of the United States. There is war and drones, the system that drives people into lives lived behind prison walls because it makes a profit, and a structure to our society that drives those on the margins further out. I knew that depending onContinue reading “A Rwandan, the Episcopal church, and my attitude toward America.”