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I am Mike Noakes.
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"Before the beautiful-no, not really before but within the beautiful-the whole person quivers. He not only 'finds' the beautiful moving; rather, he experiences himself as being moved and possessed by it."
- Hans Urs von Balthasar

"Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
- Flannery o'Connor

"Christians are called to leave behind, in the tomb of Jesus Christ, all that belongs to the brokenness and incompleteness of the present world. It is time, in the power of the Spirit, to take up our proper role, our fully human role, as agents, heralds, stewards of the new day that is dawning."
- NT Wright

"When we think our brother or sister has sinned against us, such an affront is not just against us but against the whole community. A community established as peaceful cannot afford to let us relish our sense of being wronged without exposing that wrong in the hopes of reconciliation."
- Stan Hauerwas

"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."
- Thomas Merton

"All the believers were of one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possesions was their own, but they shared everything that they had."
- Acts of the Apostles

"For evil men account those things alone evil which do not make men evil; neither do they blush to praise good things, and yet to remain evil among the good things they praise. It grieves them more to own a bad house than a bad life, as if it were man's greatest good to have everything good but himself."
- St. Augustine

(reading)

The Eucharist of the Early Christians

The Collected Short Stories, Flannery o'Connor

The Kingdom of God is Within You, Tolstoy

(have read)

Crossing the Threshold of Hope, Pope John Paul II

God is Near Us, Pope Benedict XVI

Heretics/Orthodoxy, GK Chesterton

Sonnets from the Portuguese, Elizabeth Barret Browning

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Monday, January 01, 1990

About Me

December 1987 was a confusing time. After an ongoing breakdown of diplomatic relations, Mexico and Canada had declared war on one another. Even more confusing than the reasons for the war (it had something to do with a dinner invitation and a confusing thank you note between President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado and Canadian PM M. Brian Mulroney) was the logistical problem of how to fight it. The United States, keeping to it's long-standing policy of pacifism and non-interference in the region, refused to offer its airspace or roads for the use of either nation.

Canada did, however, manage to land a regiment of mounted police in Tijuana, and quickly took the city. While peace was negotiated quickly and the city returned to Mexico, the commander of the Canadian contingent and fallen in love with a young prisoner of war. The Canadian officer gave birth to Kenneth Michael Noakes in the summer of 1988. She would later write about her experience in the popular classic, The Summer of My Hot, Young, Brown Mexican Soldier, which many of you read in the 8th grade.

Somehow, Mike was raised in Idaho by a clan of gypsies. But except for the part about the gypsies, that story is almost as boring as Idaho itself, so we shan't waste time with it here.

Mike is a Christian, but not the kind that sucks. He realizes that being a Christian has quite a bit to do with getting on board Jesus' Kingdom agenda, and living with other people in a "the Christian Colony is a blessing and a challenge to the world around it" kind of way. He's ecumenically minded (in the good kind of way) and spends his time with Presbyterians, Baptists, Roman Catholics, and even Episcopalians.

Mike studies English at the College of Southern Idaho, and is a freak on the dance floor.

Bio written by

Kyle Potter

Captain Sacrament

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posted by -mike- at 2:59 PM

 

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