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I am Mike Noakes.
That is was my pipe.
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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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(spirituality)

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(good books)

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Quick Draw!

(That's Moby and Mike, kids)

Well, within 5 minutes of posting my little "game" Mike Morrel won it. Congratulations, Mike! I guess I may have made this one a bit too easy so I'm gonna try again next week with a bit more difficult subject... As promised, he gets a bit of promotion here. Lucky bastard.

Mike Morrel is actually the co-founder/operator of Sites Unseen (which I was able to do some editing for earlier this year) the largest site on the net for all things emerging. Even stuff on hippies. I know that many of us have visited the site trying to find some little obscure something involving church expressions... Admit it.

Well, now we all have an oppurtunity to help him and his site out. They need money. I know that most of us will not be able to finance this out of our own pockets as we are having financial struggles ourselves. But manyof us also know people who may be able to help out (large companies, magazines, wealthy tax collectors, etcetera) If you find yourself graced enough to be able to find some sort of financial contribution, it would ultimately benefit us all. Email him here.

Yes, that's Mike's promotion. Everyone, look forward to next week's exciting contest/game. Higher difficulty level, for sure.

posted by -mike- at 1:22 PM

 

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