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09 November 2009
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about us
- ::athada::
- my wife and I are preparing to serve with Word Made Flesh in Bolivia.
Headed to El Alto, Bolivia
Kiva.org
(not an advert, or a gimmick)
the tangled web, subject to 3.4% annual inflation...
- _NEW.. N:Wilson - Global Ambassadors
- A:Colter - northwest novice
- Art in Community Among the Poor (WMF)
- B:Anderson - social economist
- B:Strickland - rebel with or without cause
- B:Webb - interpreting science news
- C:Heuertz - WMF leader
- D:Haxton - Hoosier heathen farmer friend
- J:Jackson - jack of e-trades
- J:Morris - mile-high thoughts
- J:Osbourne - sadly, just an e-friend
- J:Phillips - development in South Sudan
- J:Tillett - nurse in W. Africa
- J:Tillett - smart, faithful, servant
- JA:Crump - why I'm an uncle
- Jesus Manifesto
- K:Drury - subversive politicking
- K:Drury - weekly banter
- K:Hardacre - always exlamation
- K:Schenck - blistering blogger
- K:Schenck - vital real world commentary
- K:Scott - musical & mysterious
- Kimberly's Art
- Kiva - loan directly to majority-world entrepreneurs
- L:Burger - SoFar, SoCal
- M:Buwalda - fellow bandito
- M:Cline - sniper-turned-peacemaker
- M:Klepac - small things
- Microplace - make microloans to the poor (fixed-term, w/ interest)
- N:Felt - unpredictable
- N:Wilson - Evangelicals and Illegal Immigrants
- NextBillion.net - Development through Enterprise
- P:Kind - a smile and a backpack
- R&J:Fowler - un(?)Orthodox
- S:Bessenecker - the new friars
- S:Hendricks - liturgical
- Sari Bari (WMF)- buy a blanket, end oppresion
- The Guy Project - makes me feel at home
- Voices from the Valley (WMF Romania)
2009 Reads
- *Missio Dei Breviary (Missio Dei) *** pages
- *The Violence of Love (Oscar Romero) 214 pages
- *Devotional Classics (ed. Richard Foster) 344 pages
- Jesus for President (Claiborne & Haw) 355 pages
- The Art of Crossing Cultures (Craig Storti) 156 pages
- Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides) 529 pages
- Announcing the Reign of God: Evangelization & the Subversive Memory of Jesus (Mortimer Arias) 154 pages
- The Story We Find Ourselves In: Further Adventures of a New Kind of Christian (Brian McLaren) 206 pages
- Serving as Senders (Neal Pirolo) 183 pages
- The Open Secret: An Introduction to the Theology of Mission (Lesslie Newbigin) 192 pages
- Prodigal Summer: A Novel (Barbara Kingsolver) 444 pages
- Survival of the Fittest: Keeping Yourself Healthy in Travel and Service Overseas (Dr. Christine Aroney-Sine) 121 pages
- ***3Q Totals: 14 books, 3,080 pages
- Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and S. America's Strangest Jail (Rusty Young & Thomas McFadden) 373 pages
- The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions (Marcus Borg & N. T. Wright) 293 pages
- Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck) 118 pages
- The Last Word and the Word After That: A Tale of Faith, Doubt, and a New Kind of Christianity (Brian McLaren) 208 pages
- First Person Rural: Essays of a Somtime Farmer (Noel Perrin) 124 pages
- Becoming Native to this Place (Wes Jackson) 121 pages
- Sub-Merge: Living Deep in a Shallow World (John B. Hayes) 303 pages
- Go Green, Save Green: A Simple Guide to Saving Time, Money, and God's Green Earth (Nancy Sleeth) 410 pages
- The Way of the Heart: Connecting with God through Prayer, Wisdom, and Silence (Henri Nouwen) 103 pages
- Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (Eduardo Galeano) 330 pages
- Born Fundamentalist, Born Again Catholic (David B. Currie) 215 pages
- Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition (Wendell Berry) 153 pages
- Did God Use Evolution? Observations from a Scientist of Faith (Werner Gitt) 117 pages
- Rethinking Christ and Culture: A Post-Christendom Perspective (Craig A. Carter) 212 pages
- ***2Q Totals: 24 books, 5,194 pages
- We Drink from Our Own Wells: The Spiritual Journey of a People (Gustavo Gutierrez) 192 pages
- Lord of the Flies (William Golding) 182 pages
- Tortilla Flat (John Steinbeck) 317 pages
- The Last Word: Beyond the Bible Wars to a New Understanding of the Authority of Scripture (N. T. Wright) 152 pages
- The Future of Life (E. O. Wilson) 211 pages
- The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth (E. O. Wilson) 175 pages
- The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief (Francis S. Collins) 283 pages
- The Mountain of Silence: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality (Kyriacos C. Markides) 259 pages
- Reconciling All Things: A Christian Vision for Justice, Peace and Healing (Emmanuel Katongole & Chris Rice) 165 pages
- Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter (Various) 401 pages
- The Politics of Jesus (John H. Yoder) 250 pages
- The Pearl (John Steinbeck) 118 pages
- The Red Pony (John Steinbeck) 118 pages
- Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (Douglas Coupland) 183 pages
- The Gift of Good Land: Further Essys Cultural and Agricultural (Wendell Berry) 291 pages
- How Not to Get Rich: Or Why Being Bad Off Isn't So Bad (Robert Sullivan) 98 pages
- Pilgrim at Tinker Greek (Annie Dillard) 290 pages
- From Brokenness to Community (Jean Vanier) 52 pages
- A World Lost (Wendell Berry) 151 pages
- Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously but not Literally (Marcus Borg) 306 pages
- Clearing (Wendell Berry) 52 pages
- A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson) 527 pages
- Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic (DeGraaf, Wann, and Naylor) 276 pages
- The Broken Body (Jean Vanier) 145 pages
- ***1Q Totals: 10 books, 2,393 pages
- Body Politics: Five Practices of the Christian Community Before the Watching World (John Howard Yoder) 95 pages
- Born Free (Joy Adamson) 222 pages
- Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony (Hauerwas & Willimon) 172 pages
- Eternal Vigilance: Nine Tales of Environmental Heroism in Indiana (Higgs) 209 pages
- Small is Beautiful (E.F. Schumacher) 281 pages
- The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (William Easterly) 315 pages
- Poor People (Fiodor Dostoyevsky) 252 pages
- Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution (Kenneth R. Miller) 332 pages
- Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense (N.T. Wright) 240 pages
- Unbowed: A Memoir (Wangari Maathai) 295 pages JAN (20 pg read prior 1/23)
Development Links
- Bread for the World
- Christian Reformed World Relief Committee
- Educational Concerns for Hunger Org. (ECHO)
- Floresta
- Food for the Hungry
- Foods Resource Bank
- Hope Int'l (microfinance)
- International Aid
- Kiva
- Mennonite Central Committee
- Partners Worldwide
- United Methodist Committee on Relief
- World Hope Int'l (Wesleyan)
- World Relief
- World Vision
other's steps toward sustainability
- 350.org (ppm goal)
- Apollo Alliance
- CARMA - Carbon Monitoring for Action
- Climate Progress
- Deep Green Conversation - Creation Care blog
- Discovery Trail - Coast-to-Coast bike trail
- Eat Well Guide
- Environmental Capital (WSJ)
- EPA Electricity Composition by Zip Code
- eScrap Indiana
- Factory Farm Map (national & comprehensive)
- Floresta: Healing the Land and its People
- Green Belt Movement (East Africa to the world)
- Greywater Guerrillas
- Higher Grounds Trading Company (MI coffee roaster)
- Hoosier Environmental Council
- Hoosier Hikers Council
- Indiana Renewable Energy Association
- Indiana Trails (walk/bike)
- Indiana Urban Forestry Council
- Local Harvest
- NPR Environmental News
- Renewal: Students Caring for Creation
- Slow Food USA
- The Land Institute
- TreeHugger
- WorldChanging
West Michigan Links
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