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(Get this for your own site.)Church and (the) State (of it).
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A recent blog post which lightly reviewed Shane Claiborne's new book, Jesus For President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals, caught the attention of a reader and writer for the North Dakota State University newspaper, The Spectrum.
I'm pointing it out here because I like to keep track and make note of when anything Lone Prairie gets featured in various media outlets, but beyond that shallow reason, I highly recommend reading the article, which is featured on the writer's blog. It's good stuff.
A few quotes from my blog post made it into the article, but there are some other good thoughts on the concept of the state of the church today. A particularly blunt -- and true -- statement that, in some sense sums up the blinders that are slowly being peeled off of the eyes of some Christians, is the following quote:
The Disney corporation was boycotted on the basis of the attempted indoctrination of children with immoral concepts, but the Walmart corporation is overlooked by "frugal Christians" even though most products offered by Walmart are made by individuals who have the most basic of their human rights violated by tyrannical governments or poor standards of living on a daily basis.My quote has to do with my experiences in Nicaragua.
Want to do something?
If you'd like to help the organization I work with, in regards to Nicaragua, I can tell you they would gladly, gladly, gladly accept donations. You can do that here, or, if you want to help the North Dakota branch that I'm a part of, you can do that here. 100 percent of all money gets to the people of Nicaragua; the organization is staffed by volunteers.
Food prices have shot up, which affect the poor. We were shocked at the price of rice back in January, when we were distributing food. Along with food, gas prices have increased and caused unrest in the country.
So, go read the article. Reconsider what you support with your dollar and spending habits, and think about supporting the people who really could use your help.
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Copyright (c) Julie R. Neidlinger 5/08/2008 02:39:00 PM
Byword and the St. Ignace lighthouse.
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The band Byword, based in Northern Idaho, stumbled upon my sketch of the St. Ignace lighthouse, which I drew while on vacation last year.
Gotta love Google image search, sometimes.
The sketch is actually quite small; I made it using a simple black ink pen in a fairly small journal that I'd purchased at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, propped up on the railing that led to the lighthouse.
It's what I'd call a gesture drawing, the loose kind where the pen doesn't leave the surface of the page much and I tend to worry less about accurate perspective or details and, instead, go for the main message.
The devil is in the details, you know, and I don't want to deal with that.
Anyway, if you happen to see someone walking around with a shirt on that features this image...now you know.
And one more thing.
Definitely check out Byword's web site and their music. They're on CD Baby, too.
It's good stuff.
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Copyright (c) Julie R. Neidlinger 4/16/2008 02:52:00 PM
