A really important missions gathering is happening from Tuesday to Thursday in Chicago and is being streamed. I was invited to be there and blog the conference but I am still in the southern hemisphere and couldn’t make it. But I hope it goes well. A lot of my friends are speaking there and I think…
Read MoreBlog Action Day: The Power of We
Today is Blog Action Day when bloggers from 100+ countries post something on the changing the world. You may remember my earlier posts on the themes of poverty (2008) and water (2010). This year’s theme is “The Power of We”. No urination jokes, thank you very much you Australians, even though I am sure it probably…
Read MoreLiving Simply in a Complex World
UPDATE: Living Simply in a Complex World – Videos on YouTube are here: Part 1, 2, 3, 4. If you are interested in buying the DVD, please contact the people at www.franciscanthirdorder.godzone.net.nz ORIGINAL POST: Susan Pitchford was in town recently, at the invitation of the Third Order Society of St Francis, and I was asked to video the…
Read MoreTime to unplug?
Nice to see people talking about UNPLUGGING from their social media networks and fasting from blogging. Some of us need to every once in a while, especially us blogaholics. Check out this infograf that my social media network served up to me, while I was wasting time . . . . Thanks Pinterest. Source: cdn.bitrebels.netdna-cdn.com…
Read MorePizza Yodero for the Mennonites
25 Mennonites will arrive today and stay for the weekend. Tonight is pizza night so I thought about creating a pizza that will reflect Mennonite influence. Sparse, strong, thrifty but satisfying in a non-epicurean way. But puhleeezzeeeeeee NO BEANS because that would be just plain WRONG! The leaders of this group are Jim and Kathy…
Read MoreOur WorldWide Dinner Party
Tonight was our worldwide dinner party as part of the Feast on Good movement. We made our own pizza and had a nice dessert (thanks Claire!) The issue we chose to tackle was poverty in our area. Here’s what we came up with. Poverty is a real issue in our area. We want to help…
Read MoreWedding in the family
HUGE family news: Our number one son Samuel, who goes under the identity David Lightning, got engaged to Jenna White this week. We are very very very happy. Jenna spent time with us in Scotland, and travelled with us last year through Hungary and Romania (in red dress below). She is from North Carolina and we…
Read MoreFollowing Francis
UPDATE: First video is up here and others will follow. ————————- This weekend I will be with the Franciscian Third Order. The main speaker at their convocation is Susan Pitchford from the USA who is the author of Following Francis: The Franciscan Way for Everyone. They have asked me to do the media – video/podcast, etc. I will upload a few…
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