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This summer we’ll be taking Solar Crash offline for a night.

I just secured a night club for an evening celebrating creativity and spirituality.

All proceeds will be going to drilling a well and providing clean water.

I still need help of every type imaginable.  Artists, thinkers, musicians, organizers, designers, talent scouts, poets, planners, craftspeople, you name it.

If you can help, or know someone who might be able to, drop me a note.

You can find some more preliminary info on the event here.

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Some random links from the past while…

• Re:Lit | A Book You’ll Actually Read | Mark Driscoll -


• Lively - Experience another dimension of the web -


• Video: Church of England votes to ordain women bishops - Times Online -


• World leaders enjoy 18-course banquet… then discuss how to solve global food crisis | Mail Online -


• Amuso - Next Generation Game Show Network -


• Watch to Learn Chinese -


• Jenny McCarthy Loans Boyfriend Jim Carrey Her Bathing Suit (PHOTOS) - Entertainment on The Huffington Post -


• 20+ Must-Have WordPress 2.5 Compatible Plugins -


• The Commentary Project - Front Page -


• The Letter to the Hebrews -


• Zondervan - Phyllis Tickle -


• Artists Together | Catalyst -


• “Want to Plant a Church?” : Articles : HEARTLIGHT® Magazine -


• Hey!Spread - Video Distributing Web Service -


• CYWC 2008 | campusfire -


• Canadian Church Documentary -


• Tyndale Alumni -


• CBC Ottawa | Ottawa 150 -


• TheStar.com | News | Exodus II a test for churches -


• Reimagining Church by Frank Viola -


• Introduction to Creative Spirituality -


• Joey Chestnut Defeats Takeru Kobayashi In Hot Dog Contest After Eat-Off - The Huffington Post -


• The Daily Star - Opinion Articles - Barack Obama’s way: When vulnerable, go on the offensive -


• Politics | How Obama is courting the new evangelicals | Seattle Times Newspaper -

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Been on a bit of a hiatus recently… hiding out with my in-laws in Ottawa the past two weeks.

Had a great conversation with Sam Radford yesterday via Skype.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how I need to leverage technology more on a personal level.  Quite often when friends move out of town, I find we often lose touch so easily.  There’s no reason to really when most of us have high speed connections.

I’ve always tried to integrate technology on an organizational level, but there’s no reason I shouldn’t be leveraging it on a personal level as well.  I think the future will be highly local and highly virtual.

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Yesterday we had live painting during our gathering. I love what my friend Phil created on the spot.

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Thanks to those of you who’ve continued to follow along.  It’s been a slow blogging month as my head’s been elsewhere.  I’ve been horrendously sick the past five days.  Google tells me my brain is hemorraging.

There’s so much to be excited about in my life right now, but I’m a bit too nauseous to enjoy it all right now.

May you all feel a whole lot better than I do today.  peace.

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Feeling a bit better and finally catching up on my dose of obama news.

Barack capped his Middle-East / Europe tour with a speech to over 200 thousand people this week in Berlin.

Supposedly people from all over the continent had travelled in to see him in person.  Some of Obama’s opposition say that this proves how ‘foreign’ he is, and not suitable for leading America.  I think his global appeal says much more about the state of the world than Obama himself.

People are longing for a different America to show up.  I know I am.

Interestingly, an Israeli paper published a private prayer that Obama wrote and stuffed in the western wall.

Lord,

Protect my family and me. Forgive me my sins and help me guard against pride and despair.

Give me the wisdom to do what is right and just.

And make me an instrument of your will.

imagine that.

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What would you be doing, if you could do anything in the world?

Would the choices liberate you, or overwhelm you?

Would it reveal the stuff you’re made of, or all the stuff you’re missing?

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Last night was part of an interesting event at Coffee Culture.  Global TV’s been shooting a documentary on the relevance of Christianity to Canadian millenials.

Last night, Nathan Gerber of Divine Force Company invited leaders and influencers in his circle to dialog and network as they captured our conversations on film.  It was thrilling to say the least to be in the company of so many movers and shakers and visionaries.

Besides JD Heffern, who kindly gave me a lift and just started blogging here, I had a chance to connect with Wendy of newdirection.ca, Nathan Colquhoun and Joe Manafo of ‘the story‘, and John Franklin of imago, to name a few.

What’s even more exciting is the sense that as we continue to bump heads, we’re on the brink of something beautiful across the country.