Indiana Michigan Mennonite Conference delegate: bylaw tune-up passes nearly unanimously.
Indiana Michigan Mennonite Conference delegate: bylaw tune-up passes nearly unanimously.
“mah-tyure” or “muh-toor” or “muh-churr”?
Sadness as four congregations left Indiana Michigan Mennonite Conference for non-welcoming church associations. May they someday find the welcome table.
Indiana Michigan Mennonite Conference Delegate update: Leadership slate approved at 97% Spending plan approved at 100%
Q&A with Glen Guyton, Executive Director for Mennonite Church USA
Hobonichi finally announces non-dated notebook!
Big snapper at Camp Amigo
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Arrived early here at Camp Amigo, ready for Indiana Michigan Mennonite Conference to begin!
“Everybody’s dressed as though the whole congregation might just go on a hike afterwards.” - my sister-in-law, describing modern Mennonites.
⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️ to 0 is a pretty ok start to our #WorldCup campaign, I guess. #USWNT #BrokenRecords
Today’s quote:
🔗 Links for Resilience #2. Reading for security, society, sustainability, and self.
Highly successful HPB run 📚 Bonus: that’s a signed edition of Fall
for Resilient, I interviewed Curtis Brazzell for his Kickstarter project “M is for Malware”. Check it out!
Bodexpress is the real winner. 🐎
Let’s go #USWNT, let’s go @mPinoe ⚽️
update: US defeats New Zealand 5-0
My latest Resilient newsletter is out: Links for Resilience, where I share articles, quotes, and comments about security, society, and self.
Collection of short films to commemorate the Alien 40th anniversary.
#IndyTen ⚽️
First podcast up: “Where do you normally get your news?”
Based on recent feedback, I am starting a podcast!
Quick Survey: What topics would you want me to cover in a podcast and newsletter?
I’ll give a free lifetime membership to the first 50 full responses.
Quick Poll: Where would you prefer I discuss what I’m learning, considering, sharing?
“If I were wrong, what would I see?”
Great question from Margaret Heffernan on the Knowledge Project.
I also like the distinction between “power as orchestration” and “power as domination”. Lots of good items on this episode.
“countering consumerism must start from more robust secular (or religious) theodicy: the building of meaning structures, communities of meaning, that lie outside the realm of the market; and that offer credible answers to the deep foundational questions that continue to haunt us”
From Escaping the Iron Cage of Consumerism
“A tech movement spurred by visions of libertarian empowerment and progressive uplift has instead fanned a global resurgence of populism and authoritarianism.”
How Tech Utopia Fostered Tyranny