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Emerging Down Under

Two interesting book items from “down under” this week:

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Duncan Macleod at Postkiwi.com (from New Zealand, now living in Australia) has an excellent review of Doug Pagitt’s forthcoming book A Christianity Worth Believing (due out June 2): “Doug takes us on a journey with him as he reimagines what Christianity might be about. He introduces us to contextualisation through the Celtic adoption of the wild goose when talking about the Holy Spirit (rather than the traditional dove). He traces the modern obsession with uniformity back to the Greco-Roman adoption of Christianity in the time of Constantine. Today, he says, we’re still interpreting the story of Jesus through the lenses developed for a world dominated by Greek dualism and gods that needed to be appeased. …

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“As much as Doug’s book is about belief, I get the sense that he’s presenting us with a Christianity worth living and worth sharing.”

AusJenny alerted me to Tony Campolo’s latest Red Letter Christians: A Citizen’s Guide to Faith and Politics.

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Related: These aren’t from this week, but here’s a few more items of interest

a new book came out recently entitled emerging downunder by ray simpson and brent lyons lee (atf press), which explores “worldwide conversations about emerging church’ and new monasticism’ and applied it to a downunder’ context.” the foreword by tim costello and the introduction are at one’s disposal as a pdf download. according to amazon, the book won’t be out in the u.s. until september. (ht: matt stone)

Nick Fiedler is a USAmerican living in Brisbane, Australia, and he wrote recently about “What Can Emerging Communities Learn from Abroad?”

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Reporters for The New York Times report from the Mets and Yankees spring training camps. … The Times’ seat in the Yankee Stadium press box is located right next to the visiting …

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Batting practice taken the day before the 2002 NLDS matchup between Arizona and St. Louis.

In response to Tony Jones’ post on “emerging/Emergent,” emergent kiwi Steve Taylor offers his response, as well as three interesting constructive ideas (see the comments section). Anyone willing/able to take on the EmergentTrainManifesto idea? The domain names are available. Which reminds me of Thomas Knoll’s “Emerging Stories” project, which (as of 5/9/20 still needs four more contributors …

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Water bugs?

hello! do any of you perchance discourage a keep incredible bugs in any of your tanks? i recently rescued one from our newly opened team up with (hello swamp!), and dropped it in my 5-gallon hex. i am hoping to identify the critter. i am also hoping he choose eat 96% of the mts, but i doubt that will happen. lol dave

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damn the torpedoeslagniappe, al - 6 minutes agomay 06 2008 telling -i remember when it was as easy as throwing a guitar and a sack of really ratty clothes into my convertible vw bug and driving to a unique … click here to learn more with regard to dondawn.com technorati tags : guitar buying guitar acoustic guitar read more…

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wrestling leads shields to carson-newmanmountain press, tn - 48 minutes agowhile a part of the pigeon falsify high school wrestling team, shields built a career record of 129-23 with an outstanding 44-3 mark the past period. …sharp will wrestle notwithstanding carson-newman cleveland daily bannerall 2 dope articles

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Make your own photo cube

i love photo cubes. even though they’re arguably a bit seventies, i think they’re a lovely way to display a chosen selection of pics and consequently perfect for wedding photos. find links on how to make your own on

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Whose Job Is It?

a long time ago, at least in my terms, ezra klein and i blogged together. since then, he’s become one of the growing movement’s more impressive writers, especially on the controlled by of health care.

He writes today, in reference to a question posed by fellow wunderkind Matthew Yglesias,

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solitary of the important problems in haleness care is the power of the professional guilds. that’s true for the treatment of doctors, surgeons, dentists, orthopedists, etc, etc, etc. conveyance system reform is, as matt points entirely, Dialect right important, but no only, not the insurers and not the government, regard clever to pick a huge fight with these groups, as the public actually likes them. so everyone sort of tiptoes around these issues, because no one really sees a path forward.

This is one of the reasons that I support MinuteClinics and other basic care offerings (much to the consternation of some readers) run by nurse practitioners. Not every health problem requires a full doctor, and I’d like to see doctor’s office compete and adapt in a world in which patients have the option to bring their low level problems to cheaper, more customer service oriented providers.This is all fascinating. Doctors (and nurses and dentists and insurance companies and hospitals and politicians and unions) will all be key in any fight to reform health care, but one of the problems here is that with all of these groups but one (politicians), it isn’t actually their job to fix our health care system.

That doesn’t mean that they operate in bad faith or that they don’t try to have all of our best interests at heart. It’s just that — like all of us — they have a limited perspective, limited by their own interaction with the world.

My friend Jefferson Smith, founder of the Oregon Bus Project (Forward Montana’s sister org in that fine state) and candidate for Oregon’s State House, often likes to ask whose job it is to fix health care or reform our education system or reinvent the structure of our energy economy. Right now, it isn’t really anyone’s job.

It is, instead, the job of most political actors to either focus on a very narrow issue set or to represent their members’ own financial interests. In the words of Jeff, this isn’t wrong or evil, but it is incomplete.

And if we’re going to fix these problems, we need to spend some time trying to get past our own narrow issue interests and our own narrow financial interests — not because those things aren’t important (they are!), but because on their own, they aren’t enough.

That’s a big part of what the Oregon Bus was founded to do — and it’s a big part of what Forward Montana tries to do.

Tonight, at Candidates Gone Wild, we were fortunate to have at least a bit of a bipartisan crowd despite a very non-bipartisan candidate field (we invited all the folks in contested primaries, but Tim Fox and Lee Bruner had a scheduling conflict, unfortunately). Now — to a large extent, I understand why folks with whom I disagree don’t want to be part of something that I’m a part of. But I’m also grateful every time someone from “across the aisle” takes a step of good faith and shows up — so those handful of Republicans who joined us, thank you. We’ll be bringing back Candidates Gone Wild this fall — hopefully in a far more inclusive way. The idea is to mix levity and seriousness, make politics more approachable. In such a setting, it’s possible — we think — that we can all spend a little more time listening and less time arguing — and just maybe we can learn something from one another. Also — I got to wear a teletubby costume tonight and generally make a fool of myself. That was awesome.

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Marvin Harrison Is Hardcore? Who Knew?

from the squarely-my-face-and-call-me-crazy files, here’s something you probably didn’t think you’d listen to forth on friday — or at all. ever. marvin harrison, the noiselessness guy from the indianapolis colts receiving squadron, is being investigated championing a shooting incident that happened outside of a bar he owns in philadelphia. like you, when i first motto …

Proud Spell takes the Oaks

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proud spell, the “other” filly in larry jones’ barn, had the look of a superstar at churchill downs this afternoon as she rolled to a dominating defeat over a slipshod track in the kentucky oaks. the daughter of proud citizen covered the 1 1/8 mile distance in 1:50.01. after rating just off the go around of pacesetter bsharpsonata, …
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Wright Bites?

Looking at one poll is sometimes dangerous. But several together–all pointing in the same direction–can tell a story. And for Barack Obama, this narrative is scary.

Rasmussen, Gallup, and Fox released national polls in the last two days that break out this way:

Gallup: Clinton 49%, Obama 45% Fox: Clinton 44%, Obama 41% Rasmussen: Clinton 46%, Obama 44%

Two weeks ago, many of these same polls showed Obama with anywhere between a 5-10 percent lead.

While the most recent results all show a virtual statistical tie, itâs the trend over the past couple of weeks that is striking. The Rasmussen poll, for example, reveals a ten-point swing toward Clinton since the Wright press conference.

This plot of all the public polls from Pollster.com shows the most recent “Wright Bites” trend pretty clearly:

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Uma Thurman Testifies About Razors And Love Notes At Stalker Trial

NEW YORK — Uma Thurman said Thursday that she was confused, frightened and panicked when her accused stalker delivered a card bearing a picture of an open grave and a man standing on the edge of a razor blade.

The 38-year-old actress took the witness stand in Manhattan state Supreme Court in the trial of Jack Jordan, who is accused of following and trying to contact her for two years.

She said Jordan came to her trailer while she was shooting a movie in SoHo and asked to see her. He was prevented from doing so by her assistant, who promised to deliver the card to her.

Thurman said she was “completely freaked out” by the card, which contained the words: “My hands should be on your body at all times.”

Jordan is charged with stalking and aggravated harassment. He faces up to a year in jail if convicted.

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Hilary’s Legs Were Made For Revealing!

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hilary unworkable was sizzling as she entered mtv’s trl studio’s yesterday. the blonde curls, the tan, her skin, her tiny, screamed smokin’ hot chick! pictures by splash news / doug meszler

Jon Stewart Shows Us His Kind Of Hybrid, We Ask Which Comedian Is More Jalopnik [Jalopnik Polls]

remember that whole stewart-colbert-o’brien thing during the writer strike a month ago? surge, it looks partiality jon stewart’s still trying to best the meet for most jalopnik late edge of night mistress of ceremonies last night on the daily guide. plainly, he eschews those fancy-pants hybrids desired by every other manhattanite in favor of a half-stock and half-dinosaur hybrid. yup, that’s our kind of a ride. but does robosaurus beat out conan’s sho taurus for most jalopnik go? or what encircling letterman’s parsimonious block-infused volvo? where does “the chin” fall? we’ll let you decide below the jump.

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Now I can feel that this heart of mine has taken many falls

my copy of british singer taio cruz’s album departure arrived today–and boy, am i contented i ordered it. i missed his before two singles, “i just wanna know” and “moving on,” when they came out pattern year, but loved the r&b-meets-electropop “come on girl” (featuring luciana) from this year–that unequivocally got me interested in him. as i mentioned earlier, when jessica posted two brilliant songs from him, “i’ll conditions love again” and “fly away,” over on into the groove, i was 95% convinced his was an album i had to set up. the last thingumajig that pushed me over the edge? hearing his latest single, “i can be”–i mean, if he could clothed already released three singles, should prefer to two irrational so-become successful-not-yet-a-single album tracks, and then be releasing something this colossal for a fourth single, that seemed like a good subpoena that the album forced to be pretty impressive.if you’ve got the money, departure is obviously worth your time; i’m not thriving to review it at the moment (if you want a review, on here), chiefly since i reasonable got it today (maybe in the future), but please beat it 3 minutes and 53 seconds to listen to “i can be.” if you had to choose one word for this song, i weigh it’d be “inspirational.” clique aside any cynicism because a shake and well-founded enjoy a lovely strings-backed feel elevated song song (with an african plainsong-esque investment part near the end that i love), the sort of opportunity you turn to when you miss a comforting shot of hope. “come on girl” is great, but somehow this feels partiality it’s got…i don’t grasp, more nutritional value or something, down-to-earth as it might be to call the chorus lyrics simple. if you’ve ignored him up until now, i reflect on you capacity be pleasantly surprised with this.i’m so delighted we’ve got him around.

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