I’m looking forward to hearing the new Mark Erelli album due out next week. I loved Erelli’s last disc, Hope & Other Casualties, which was on my year-end list last year. I just read this review and listened to a few of the new songs, including this one, “Volunteers“. It’s a first-person [...]

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Matt mentioned this song in a comment on yesterday’s post, which prompted me to go find it in it’s entirety.
lyrics
The song is called “Dress Blues” by Jason Isbell (Drive-By Truckers). The song is about Matthew Conley, a marine from Isbell’s hometown of Greenhill, Alabama, who died in Iraq.
I thought it was a [...]

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Yesterday, Scott posted a link to this quiz. It supposedly will give you the candidate whose views you are most likely to share. The percentages listed in the results indicate a certainty level - i.e. 100% means it is 100% likely this is the one you’ll agree the most with (not you agree [...]

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Okay, here’s my final selection from Shane Claiborne’s The Irresistible Revolution. I found this interesting in light of discussions over at Scott Freeman’s place in recent months on the issue of non-violence.
Claiborne tells the story of visiting a hospital in Iraq where children were being treated for injuries they suffered due to the war. [...]

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As we prepare to celebrate the birth of the Prince of Peace, I thought I would post the following from Shane Claiborne’s book The Irresistible Revolution. In his chapter where he records the details of his visit to Iraq, he writes the following:
I was invited to worship services nearly every day while in Iraq. [...]

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We all but canceled our cable with Comcast about 10 days ago.  There were several reasons, among them being the cost.  I’ve determined that I can get more for my money through a satellite service (which we’ve had before) and so we’re going to do that at the end of the summer, probably.  I figured [...]

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