Eternal Influence
A little under 1000 years ago in Italy there lived a man named Giovanni de Bernadone, but his friends call him Francis.  Francis was a Christ follower, and if her were here today he would be the first to tell you that he didn’t understand completely what that means. But he lived his life in p

posted 2:42:42am Oct. 03, 2013 | read full post »

In Plain Sight
Earlier this week I wrote on awareness. I wasn’t terribly nice to the awareness industry. I beat up on it, I asked hard questions of it. I did it for a reason. A while back an old friend by the name of David sent me a message about a sex trafficking documentary he wanted me to raise awaren

posted 2:16:47pm Sep. 20, 2013 | read full post »

What shall I do with all this Awareness?
Non-Profits love people like me. People with initiative and influence, people who already care, who don’t need to be sold on why the mission is important. They love to give me flyers, they love to link me to Facebook pages, they love to sell me T-Shirts, and accept donations. But I have a hard tim

posted 6:51:10pm Sep. 16, 2013 | read full post »

Enforcing Modesty
Guys, summer is over. Can we please stop with the posts policing women’s bodies? I’m not sure why but after years of relative silence the issue of women’s modesty has become “a thing” this year. It seems to have started with a fashion designer who made some vintage style swimsuits. I wasn

posted 12:16:49pm Sep. 12, 2013 | read full post »

Tradition
People joke about entering ones 20s and the passage on from teen years as a transition into “no longer knowing everything” If that’s what teenagers are characterized by than I guess the arrogance of ones 20s comes from knowing that your knowledge is limited but believing that what ideas you do

posted 1:00:00am Aug. 28, 2013 | read full post »