This is an the new U2 song and video, amazing

http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=VskbxuehP3I

Hi this is Foy Vance's new song, which is out on the 18th of December...

Check the link out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=y4cjCuUQUwI

Iv'e been thinking recently about Jesus simply doing things and then saying 'Now if you want to you do it.' If we think its impractical or impossible check out this fleshing out of what it means to be a follower of Christ. He ment it when he said this is not an ill fitting burden, it is possible...

Orginal Article on 24-7 Website:

Waging Peace: What if the Amish Were in Charge of the War on Terror 18-Oct-06   'I did not pay much attention to the Amish school shooting,' confesses the best-selling author Diana Butler Bass (left) on the Sojo website.

These are the recordings of our free improv group's first session.

- Happy Shopping -
A temporary site specific art installation

Original Concept by Dominic Murcott

This is a photo of our solar system taken by Voyger 1 as it left our solar system at a distance of more than 4 billion miles from earth. From Voyager's great distance Earth is a mere point of light, less than the size of a picture element even in the narrow-angle camera. Earth was a crescent only 0.12 pixel in size. Coincidentally, Earth lies right in the center of one of the scattered light rays resulting from taking the image so close to the sun.

Crux magazine 2001 Vol. XXXVII No.3

We are trying to put the best face on Christianity. That is the influence of sales, retail, a free enterprise culture: glamorise your God product if you want people to walk through the doors of your church. It is also the influence of the so-called spiritual warfare model because we always must say and think the best of “our side� if we're in a fight or a contest or a competition. So propaganda enters the picture with legitimacy. The trouble with all of this is that it promotes, even exalts, dishonesty as a spiritual good. But the Christianity of the scriptures and of Christ is honest and transparent and reflects struggle and suffering and failure and imperfection as well as triumph and joy and attainment and wholeness. Dishonesty can never be justified, no matter what ends it is meant to achieve. Yet contemporary Christianity is less than honest about the pain and failures of the Christian life, as if the admission of such shortcomings might somehow disgrace God. The irony is that it is not our attempt to appear perfect in our lives and churches that honour God but just the opposite. Our confession of out imperfections brings a God of Grace and forgiveness into the picture. Yes, people will attend the apparently perfect church. But then they will attempt to live their Christianity by aping that same graceless picture-perfect perfection. They won't succeed. They will blight their souls and the earth. They will wind up either rejecting Christ in the bitterness of their new slavery or they will have to play the immaculate saint and go about masked. They will bring yet more tyranny and pretence upon a world already heavy with tyrants and bewitched by illusion. On the other hand, those few who come to the church where imperfection is acknowledged and confessed will be lifted up by God alone, not by their own pretence or performance, and the wings they grow to soar with will not be waxen and of their own making, but the wings of God, wings like eagles. Humility results in God's presence and brings a great blessing and an honest-to-God Christianity to the earth, something we have far to little of in this generation. Perhaps this is why we no longer paint great pictures or build great architecture or write great literature. Perhaps this is why we cannot produce art of depth and significance to stagger a world in delusion and deceit. Because just like them, we lie.

Doesn't play at correct speed on site (download and play in iTunes for correct sound)
Recorded at Trinity College of MusicDec'05
~Dan~

December 30thThe crackle came through on the radio. I was asking how close he was and what direction he was headed. The answer was that he was a lot closer than we had previously expected and then it fuzzed a little too much to disable the last part of the message. I bashed the dashboard, blaming my equipment, shouting. I flew on further, the skies opened up and invited me to explore, asking my paradigm questions about what was possible.