tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39646362024-03-07T09:04:47.259-05:00Daily Random"It's what you like, not what you are like."Ian Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10010876488165076834noreply@blogger.comBlogger783125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3964636.post-1125073352332436562005-10-24T17:39:00.000-04:002005-10-24T17:40:04.353-04:00Home<p style="text-align: center; font-style: italic;">
I've moved.<br /><br />
<a href="http://fightingforalostcause.net/blog/">This is home now</a>.
</p>Ian Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10010876488165076834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3964636.post-1130176190514226622005-10-24T13:47:00.000-04:002005-10-24T13:49:50.520-04:00<p>
"...I like the fact that most of the people don’t know me and I don’t know them. I can come to church, enjoy the singing and sermon, and leave, not worrying about anything or anyone. Your way of meeting seems too serious and far too personal for me." (<a href="http://www.theooze.com/articles/article.cfm?id=1255" class="pointy">>></a>)
</p>Ian Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10010876488165076834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3964636.post-1129858075198324932005-10-20T21:16:00.000-04:002005-10-20T21:27:55.223-04:00<p>
"In <a href="http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20cor%201:18-2:16;&version=31;">this application</a> of a homily on wisdom and the Spirit, Paul acts in a way very typical of himself. He attacks a problem by going deeper. He sees the real issue not just in a moral weakness, a refusal to be harmonious and loving as a community. He sees the real issue in a blatant contradiction in the life of the Corinthians. The homily in effect speaks of the essential role of the Spirit in the life of all believers. The homily groups people simply into two groups, those who have recieved the Spirit and those who have not, those who are being saved and those being damned, those for whom the crucifixion of Jesus is God's wisdom and power and those for whom it is a stumbling block. After having made this point in the homily, Paul then turns to the Corinthian Church and says in effect that he cannot speak to them as people endowed with the Spirit (3:1-4). Their jealousies, quarrels, and partisan spirit is in such contradiction to the work of God's spirit, that he must address them as sarkikoi, a word only difficultly translated 'hell bent on the flesh.' Despite the charismatic gifts that the Corinthians feel so proud about, their community behavior puts them dangerously close to 'those perishing,' those for whom the crucifixion of Christ is meaningless." (<a href="http://artssciences.udayton.edu/religiousstudies/ShowProfile.asp?u=212HJFGDNG0&t=Faculty" class="pointy">>></a>)
</p>Ian Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10010876488165076834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3964636.post-1129764443981980582005-10-19T19:21:00.000-04:002005-10-19T19:27:23.986-04:00carly<p>
I don't think heaven will be so much clouds and harps, but rather the fullness of the things we feel deepest but only get shadows of in this life, like <a href="http://www.noiseboxmedia.com/movies/science1.mov">art and music and love</a>.
</p>Ian Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10010876488165076834noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3964636.post-1129042130853547472005-10-11T10:42:00.000-04:002005-10-11T10:48:50.860-04:00<p>
"The point is that no matter how twisted things get, no matter how unfair, no matter how brutal, no matter how tragic, Jesus has walked the path and walks it with us still... The only answer I have is that we are not alone, that God has embraced and entered into human suffering and pain." (<a href="http://www.wiredjesus.com/podcast/wjp-20051009.mp3" class="pointy">>></a>) [MP3]
</p>Ian Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10010876488165076834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3964636.post-1128985054512402952005-10-10T18:45:00.000-04:002005-10-10T18:57:34.543-04:00<p>
"I'm still unclear as to what I'm supposed to be doing in order to be a better disciple of Christ. I know that I'm supposed to obey the direct teachings of Christ; that I'm supposed to take care of the marginalized and the poor... But I don't know what to do with the Bible. I don't know how to apply scripture to my life; I don't know how to become more a person of prayer; I don't know how to engage myself in the ancient spiritual disciplines that have that have nourished people for hundreds and even thousands of years. I don't know how to do that, it hasn't been translated yet." (<a href="http://www.radicalcongruency.com/wp-content/RC-2005-10-06.mp3" class="pointy">>></a>) [MP3]
</p>Ian Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10010876488165076834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3964636.post-1128690569306650822005-10-07T09:03:00.000-04:002005-10-07T09:09:29.346-04:00<p>
"I want someone to pluck me off the side of the road and love me with total abandon. I’m not talking about God here, not something ephemeral, but a woman, a flesh and blood woman. A woman who’ll cast out my self doubt and drive it into the lake to be drowned. A woman who thinks I’m worth <em>everything.</em>" (<a href="http://waiterrant.net/?p=211" class="pointy">>></a>)
</p>Ian Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10010876488165076834noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3964636.post-1128637817077291492005-10-06T18:28:00.000-04:002005-10-06T18:30:17.086-04:00<p style="text-align: center; font-style: italic;">
"Now every woman and every man<br />
They want to take a righteous stand<br />
Find the love that God wills<br />
And the faith that He commands.<br />
I've got my finger on the trigger<br />
And tonight faith just ain't enough<br />
When I look inside my heart<br />
There's just devils and dust.<br /><br />
But I've got God on my side..." (<a href="http://www.brucespringsteen.net/songs/DevilsDust.html" class="pointy">>></a>)
</p>Ian Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10010876488165076834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3964636.post-1128372957706812002005-10-03T16:55:00.000-04:002005-10-03T16:55:57.706-04:00<p>
"In my life, I feel like I've always been about 10 years behind in terms of figuring things out." (<a href="http://www.relevantmagazine.com/god_article.php?id=6995" class="pointy">>></a>)
</p>Ian Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10010876488165076834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3964636.post-1128372531243624482005-10-03T16:48:00.000-04:002005-10-03T16:48:51.250-04:00<p>
"I have not grown personally in terms of faith with the kind of consumer-oriented Christianity that is prevalent in America. That has never helped me; it's only stunted my growth. What I mean by that is the self-help, formulaic kind of stuff; the moralist/political angles on our faith tradition. None of that helped me. I didn't grow. And really what happened was there was a switch that turned where I got interested in the more relational dynamic of faith, the whole notion of God fathering us rather than focusing on the rules or whatever." (<a href="http://www.relevantmagazine.com/god_article.php?id=6995" class="pointy">>></a>)
</p>Ian Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10010876488165076834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3964636.post-1128180213607882462005-10-01T11:21:00.000-04:002005-10-01T11:24:14.473-04:00<p>
"If we ended up building another television out of [the Internet]... what a shame. We would have spent twenty years with a possibility of having done something great and having lost it. So I'm spending my time, my fortune ... on trying to make sure that we have a future that we actually want to live in, something that we're actually proud of at the end of the day. Having said, 'Yeah, we built something as good as books. We took the Library of Alexandria idea, of having all information available and not only made it available in Alexandria, Egypt ... but took the Library of Alexandria and make it available to anybody all over the world....' That's a worthwhile goal." (<a href="http://distribution.nerdtv.net/video/ntv004/ntv004.mp4" class="pointy">>></a>) [MOV 57:58]
</p>Ian Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10010876488165076834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3964636.post-1127921445847491192005-09-28T11:29:00.000-04:002005-09-28T11:30:45.856-04:00<p>
"I'm trying to figure out what it means to be a follower of Jesus and I need to confess right up-front that often I'm not a very good one." (<a href="http://media.gospelcom.net/cornerstone/grts/chapel/2005-09-12-Ed%20Dobson-Talking%20Points%20Session%203.mp3" class="pointy">>></a>) [MP3]
</p>Ian Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10010876488165076834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3964636.post-1127785441805381052005-09-26T21:43:00.000-04:002005-09-26T21:51:11.100-04:00<p>
"I became obsessed with symmetry. If I stepped on a crack with my right foot, I felt an irresistible urge to step on a crack with my left foot. I added more details until this ritual became all-consuming. If I stepped on a pebble with my right heel, I had to step on a pebble with my left heel. If I missed and stepped on the pebble with the middle of my left foot, I had to step on a pebble with the middle of my right foot while still 'owing' my left heel a pebble." (<a href="http://christiancentury.org/article.lasso?id=1349" class="pointy">>></a>)
</p>Ian Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10010876488165076834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3964636.post-1127780029693585502005-09-26T20:09:00.000-04:002005-09-28T11:31:07.866-04:00<p>
"The gospel for him equals the doctrine of penal-substitutionary atonement... Jesus said that the gospel was 'the Kingdom of God is at hand.' Shouldn't we let Jesus tell us what the gospel is?" (<a href="http://media.gospelcom.net/cornerstone/grts/chapel/2005-09-12-Brian%20McLaren-Talking%20Points%20Session%201.mp3" class="pointy">>></a>) [MP3]
</p>Ian Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10010876488165076834noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3964636.post-1127764975857228402005-09-26T16:02:00.000-04:002005-09-26T16:02:55.866-04:00<p>
"They help by making me sad at how hard we all try and at how far short we fall, and the sadness softens me for love." (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385496095/104-8539822-1322307?v=glance" class="pointy">>></a>)
</p>Ian Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10010876488165076834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3964636.post-1127565943505251902005-09-24T08:45:00.000-04:002005-09-24T08:45:43.513-04:00<p>
"I was lied to, and I am tired of being lied to." (<a href="http://www.internetmonk.com/archives/2005/09/020018.html" class="pointy">>></a>)
</p>Ian Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10010876488165076834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3964636.post-1127173047614823092005-09-19T19:36:00.000-04:002005-09-26T16:04:14.956-04:00<p>
"It's not that he favors children being tossed onto bonfires or teenage girls being gang-raped and mutilated, but he can't bother himself to try very hard to stop these horrors, either. [...] I can't understand why Mr. Bush is soft on genocide, particularly because his political base - the religious right - has been one of the groups leading the campaign against genocide in Darfur. As the National Association of Evangelicals noted in a reproachful statement about Darfur a few days ago, the Bush administration 'has made minimal progress protecting millions of victims of the world's worst humanitarian crisis.' " (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/opinion/18kristof.html?hp" class="pointy">>></a>)
</p>Ian Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10010876488165076834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3964636.post-1127169185140365632005-09-19T18:32:00.000-04:002005-09-19T18:33:05.146-04:00<p>
"A good portion, however, of my diminished appreciation for Gibson's movie is the awareness of how the marketing and promotion of the film took on a life of its own, and brought the distinctly secular, cynical, unholy forces of marketing to bear on some of the most sacred of all Christian imagery and story. I resent the commodification of the Passion of Jesus by those who wanted to make a dollar and draw a bigger crowd. I am fearful- almost certain, in fact- that the beloved story of Aslan is about to be plunged into the same baptism of profiteering and evangelical, church growth driven manipulation." (<a href="http://www.internetmonk.com/archives/2005/09/020015.html" class="pointy">>></a>)
</p>Ian Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10010876488165076834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3964636.post-1127168519113034382005-09-19T18:09:00.000-04:002005-09-19T18:21:59.120-04:00<p>
"We believe that today’s church [...] is in a serious spiritual crisis and needs a reformation of theology and practice... From [...] investing in maintenance Christianity (pastors, buildings, church programs) to aligning our finances and possessions with God's heart and purposes: the poor and oppressed, reaching the unreached, mobile apostolic teams, and serving our communities." (<a href="http://tallskinnykiwi.typepad.com/tallskinnykiwi/2005/09/5_issues_for_a_.html" class="pointy">>></a>)
</p>Ian Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10010876488165076834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3964636.post-1126561416431905472005-09-12T17:43:00.000-04:002005-09-13T21:06:38.173-04:00<p>
"...grateful to be able to feel at all." (<a href="http://pauserewinderase.blogspot.com/2005/09/i-left-my-heart-in.html" class="pointy">>></a>)
</p>Ian Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10010876488165076834noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3964636.post-1126362585918476862005-09-10T10:28:00.000-04:002005-09-10T10:29:45.926-04:00<p>
"I see my world through my kailedoscope - all it's broken potential and beauty." (<a href="http://www.xanga.com/profile.aspx?user=wadonaiBloom" class="pointy">>></a>)
</p>Ian Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10010876488165076834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3964636.post-1126142652838756702005-09-07T21:22:00.000-04:002005-09-07T21:24:12.846-04:00<p>
"...I think [that] the closer we are to the teachings of Jesus the more on track we're going to be." (<a href="http://www.radicalcongruency.com/wp-content/RC-2005-09-05.mp3" class="pointy">>></a>) [MP3]
</p>Ian Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10010876488165076834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3964636.post-1125772495809758412005-09-03T14:34:00.000-04:002005-09-03T14:34:55.816-04:00<p>
"God, please help me and forgive me where i get prideful and judgmental." (<a href="http://existentialpunk.typepad.com/existential_punk/2005/06/church_polity_f.html" class="pointy">>></a>)
</p>Ian Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10010876488165076834noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3964636.post-1125449095902407192005-08-30T20:44:00.000-04:002005-08-30T20:44:55.903-04:00<p>
"I wanted to fall on my knees, newly born, but I didn't. I walked back home to Pat's and got out the Scotch. I was feeling better, less out of control, even though it would be four more years before I got sober. I was not willing to give up a life of shame and failure without a fight." (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385496095/104-8539822-1322307?v=glance" class="pointy">>></a>)
</p>Ian Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10010876488165076834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3964636.post-1125449068794537372005-08-30T20:43:00.000-04:002005-08-30T20:44:28.796-04:00<p>
" 'We live in the most affluent culture in the most affluent period of human history. If we can't discipline ourselves to learn the joys of generous living, I think we're an embarassment to the gospel.' " (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/078795599X/qid%3D1099080084/sr%3D2-1/ref%3Dpd%5Fka%5Fb%5F2%5F1/102-8468489-4688920" class="pointy">>></a>)
</p>Ian Dunnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10010876488165076834noreply@blogger.com0