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

(thoughts)

"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

(theology thinkers)

(spirituality)

(site feed)

(good books)

Thursday, March 29, 2007

Quote of the Week:

You're not an emo, Mike. I've figured it out! You're a beatnik!!
-Kevin Zuiderveld

This is about the coolest thing that has ever happened to me! Haha! I'm not an emo, you judgemental bastards!!

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Monday, March 05, 2007

I love this guy

My good friend David Brandt may be moving here to Idaho in the coming months. I am so very excited!! We have been working out his transfer issues and it looks good! He will complete his degree in Theology, work towards a teacing certificate, and possibly begin on his Masters degree.

:)

I am happy.

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Birthdays and Stuff

We have had several birthdays recently here in southern Idaho. It's been basically amazing. First off, the Lynlea Jayo turned 19. Sir Brian McManus turned 24 this weekend. Joshie Pants is turning 19 as well here in several days. Yey for birthdays!!

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