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Recovering the Compassionate Tradition of Jesus

By Pam Hogeweide
“I think religion is a bad idea,” announced Off The Map’s Jim Henderson at last year’s Seattle conference.
“I think the worst idea of all is that we (Christians) are supposed to be a world religion,” he further explained.
The heartbeat of Off The Map is open minded communication: “We want to create dialog in [...]

| Posted on: May 4, 2008 | 102 Comments

Grief

The wikipedia article on grief starts out:
Grief is a single-faceted response to loss. Although conventionally focused on the emotional response to loss, it also has physical, cognitive, behavioral, social and philosophical dimensions. Common to human experience is the death of a loved one, whether it be a friend, family, or other close companion. While the [...]

| Posted on: May 2, 2008 | 12 Comments

Quote for the Day

“I’d put my money on solar energy… I hope we don’t have to wait ’til oil and coal run out before we tackle that.”
- Thomas Edison, in conversation with Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone, March 1931

| Posted on: April 30, 2008 | 3 Comments

Does anyone want to hear?

Warning: this post contains Doom and Gloom.
Friends, over the last few months you may have noticed I’ve not been around. I have mostly been educating myself about climate change. I have noticed that there is a dramatic split in the environmental movement.
On the one hand we have scientists stating that the situation is [...]

| Posted on: April 28, 2008 | 17 Comments

An Interview with Jeremiah Wright

Jeremiah Wright has been much in the news lately because he is Barack Obama’s pastor and some sound bites of him which a lot of people found offensive have been played endlessly in the mainstream media and on youtube. Last Friday PBS broadcast a 50 minute long interview with Dr. Wright and Bill Moyers. [...]

| Posted on: April 27, 2008 | 4 Comments