A while back I had a brief reunion with some close friends and the controversial topic of abortion came up. Sparing the details, it prompted me to find this amazing piece of writing (in my opinion) that flips some of the thinking on it’s head and gets us to at least start to try and consider things from different angles then we have in the past.
The article below is written by Katha Pollitt and this is my first introduction to her. It was written in 1995 but is relevant to …

I little while ago I talked about one of the things I think we should all do, know your neighbors. I think it might be necessary to add a qualifying statment to that: that we need to meet, know and build relationships with people that our different then us (and I don’t just mean different gender). Get to know people who differ in their political views, their religious background, their culture, ethnicity, race. There are obvious reasons for this, it shouldn’t take too much convincing. However, the reason it’s been …

Billy Graham interviewed by Woody Allen (ht. Pass the Salt)

Illegal Billboards (ht. AAA)

And some dancing (try watching this and not smiling)

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

From the NYT:
It was one of the worst sweatshops that state inspectors have visited in years, they said, sometimes requiring its 100 employees to work seven days a week, sometimes for months in a row.
The factory, in Queens — which made women’s apparel for Banana Republic, the Gap, Macy’s, Urban Apparel and Victoria’s Secret — handed out instructions to its workers telling them to give false answers about working conditions when government inspectors visited.
Wage violations were so widespread, state labor officials said at a news conference on Wednesday, that the …

One of the books I read recently as an Ooze Select Blogger was titled, Oh Shit! It’s Jesus!, written by a guy named Steve Hughes. It is a short self-published book that is basically Hughes explanation of the faith.
As you can tell from the title Hughes attempts to take a rather ‘radical’ and shocking approach to presenting his perspective on following Jesus. The chapter titles also lean this direction: What the Hell?, What the Hell, and I don’t Want to Be a Christian, to name a few. Hughes retells stories …