one of my parents tipped me off to this site "God in music city." then i noticed that sam had linked to an article in the tennessean about it.
i am hoping to make one or two of the dates in the coming ‘semester.’ i would like to catch up with one of the folks involved as it seems their collaborative is similar to what we are starting with our artistic communities.
dg tipped me off to this video, which is another amusing parody of the mac ads. i like the sacred cow mock. certainly in our church structures, no matter the size or grouping, we have sacred cows..
the site for the "change without compromise" conference is kinda cool. it has a neat little fun intro video series that is worth checking out.
todd rhoades did an interview with the pastor about the "sacred art of cow-tipping" last year in conjunction with the conference last year.
fun nothing but nets promotion video
these are some great links for those of us who are confused by the tom cruise scientology video stuff and wish to be enlightened. note: it will not do anything to curb how disturbing the video is.
linkage via revland
tonight we started "eikon" an arts initiative within & outside our youth community. eikon, we hope, will become small communities of artisans that help us to practice a medium as well as frame our art as spiritual practice. tonight we started our photography community with around 20 youth & adults. i was pretty stoked for the number, but mostly i was stoked for the people that showed interest. i thought i’d share some of the why behind "eikon" since it was apparently asked about around the gbod.
To be an Eikon means, first of all, to be in union with God as Eikons; second, it means to be in communion with other Eikons; and third, it means to participate with God in his creating, his ruling, his speaking, his naming, his ordering, his variety and beauty, his location, his partnering, and his resting, and to oblige God in his obligating of us. Thus, an Eikon is God-oriented, self-oriented, other-oriented, and cosmos-oriented. To be an Eikon is to be a missional being – one designed to love God, self, and others and to represent God by participating in God’s rule in this world.
–a Community Called Atonement, by Scot McKnight
i thought this did a pretty good job of defining some group identity
i am pretty stoked to see what God does with this grouping