12 days ago by Earthpages.ca

The System A term that describes and enables individuals to speak about various interlocking social institutions, discourses and practices in a positive, negative, ambiguous or ambivalent manner. The idea of The System usually carries negative connotations, however. This is perhaps best exemplified ...

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13 days ago by nickbaines

It’s time for some Bruce Cockburn again – just to keep a sense of perspective in all the other stuff going on. The Church is a means to an end – a sign of the Kingdom of God (apparently), but not coterminus with the Kingdom of God. When we confuse ends with means we have a problem. So, Cockburn brin ...

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18 days ago by ron cole

Great interview with Drew Marshall and Canadian music icon Bruce Cockburn. Open, vulnerable, like sitting in your living room with a friend, Bruce talks about humanity, God, spirituality...and Christianity. He comments about in a Christian consumer culture, that the " Christian Music Market " is ban ...

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26 days ago by Mike

A quick thought this morning... In a world where we are expected to solve all personal, corporate and global crises--armed with nothing but a cell phone and two opposable thumbs--in the time it takes us to complete our evening commute, we have completely lost the ability to think long-term. And with ...

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27 days ago by zydeco fish

ESL-isms I know a woman who collects funny ESL sayings. I think she started this because her mother referred to the the HMV music stores as HIV. I knew another person who called a hangover an overhang. Hilarious indeed. A colleague just sent me an email, and instead of saying, "no one can remember a ...

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30 days ago by steve

I’m processing the video I’ve got from the gig as fast as I can – two more are now up for your delectation and delight. Firstly, the second of the duet improvisations: And then a new solo tune from me – an arrangement of ‘One Of The Best Ones’ by Bruce Cockburn: Enjoy! Please feel free to take the v ...

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33 days ago by Eric

President Obama making those old enough suffer less-than-pleasant flashbacks to Jimmy Carter’s presidential years (those too young, please just play along)? Feeling Comrade Putin flex that Soviet Russian muscle a little too much? Wanna hearken back to a time when Red Dawn didn’t involve Tom Cruise’s ...

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34 days ago by broapocalypse

Silly old me. A few days before the gig, I was sitting working on the computer with wet hair and though I had it wrapped in a turban… …a gentle cold draft resulted in my contracting and nasty throat infection…and being one of the many children who had their tonsels and adenoids removed, the infectio ...

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42 days ago by Jacksonian Lawyer

“Sometimes the best map will not guide you You can’t see what’s round the bend Sometimes the road leads through dark places Sometimes the darkness is your friend…”

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48 days ago by JB

On this first day of Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere (let us not forget those ɹǝpunuʍop), BabaRamDass tweets: We’re fascinated by the words- but where we meet is in the silence behind them. On the last day of Summer, Brian McLaren shared with us some thoughts from from Nouwen … on silence and word ...

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