May, 2009

Links for May 16th

Amnesty International – Tear it Down

Amnesty International's Tear It Down – an interactive design to support the closing of Guantánamo. You can also get information on their campaign to Counter Terror with Justice.

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human-rights

politics

design

activism

Why Christianity21? – The New Christians

If you can, you should go to the Christianity21 event in Minneapolis this fall. It will be a fantastic example of how Emergent is genuinely achieving something different.

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church

emerging

events

emergent

Neo Futurists | UX Week 2008 | Adaptive Path on Vimeo

This is the entire performance, and some other material, from the Neo-Futurists at 2008's UX Week in San Francisco.

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theater

neo-futurists

video

Links for May 13th

Creating WordPress Themes: Front Page Styling | Brass Blogs Web Design

Great set of WordPress functions for styling pages when creating themes.

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css

php

blogging

wordpress

Google to support microformats and RDFa

May 12th, 2009

Today, we have been informed that Google will support microformats and RDFa, which are ways to give machine-readable semantic structure, meaning, and connection to a web document.

The 24-7 Prayer movement

May 10th, 2009

Several years ago, a great friend of mine introduced me to 24-7 Prayer International when the organization was just a couple of years old.

Links for May 9th

The NYT Finally Prints "Torture" | The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

"You will notice how the NYT defines torture when it comes to foreign governments – isolation, sensory deprivation, sleep deprivation. Much milder than anything the US did to one of its own citizens, Jose Padilla."

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newspapers

andrew-sullivan

torture

Five years from now

May 9th, 2009

At lunch recently, Kiera asked me what my goals are for five years from now.

Multi-culturalism from the early Pentecostals

May 8th, 2009

I talk fairly often about the early characteristics of the Pentecostal movement, especially its ardent pacifism.

Links for May 5th

Enough

"Enough is a project of the Center for American Progress to end genocide and crimes against humanity. Founded in 2007, Enough focuses on crises in Sudan, Chad, eastern Congo, northern Uganda, Somalia, and Zimbabwe."

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organizations

peace-activism

activism

peace

africa

Missional/Attractional Debate | Missio Dei

"It is my work to look at the spiritual formation process and develop discipleship systems in response to that. I actively hold that Jesus created a model for engaging His fathers mission. And it included both an attractional and missional structure."

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church

missiology

Links for May 4th

the Jesus Manifesto » Waterboarding Saves Lives

"We should condemn torture not because torture is an exceptional form of violence but because it so utterly exemplifies the violence that characterizes fallen humanity. We bear witness to a new way of life in which we have no need of torture because we have no need of violence at all, and we bear testimony to a day when this will be the norm for all of creation."

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peace

torture

HOW IT ENDS

This June, thousands of people will come together in D.C to act for peace, and the end of Africa's longest running war.

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peace-activism

peace

invisible-children

africa

Links for May 1st

Reflections on District Council, TheoSalon, and Divine Encounters | john o'hara…

"I think Pentecostals (or Spirit-Led followers of Jesus, or postmodern mystics, or whatever handle you want to use) are uniquely situated to respond to the threat posed by 'much talk, little action.'"

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emerging

emergent

church

pentecostal