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Yorkton

UrbanMinistry Bloggers — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:44:58 +0000

I was in a certain store chatting with an off-duty employee (for the sake of this story, let’s call her Wendy) the other day and an employee came by and said something quite inappropriate. I asked her if the guy had mental health problems and she said with a straight face, “No, he’s from Yorkton”.

I work with a friend who is from Yorkton and her husband and her enjoyed that line tremendously. My only experience with the fine city of Yorkton is that I stopped at Staples there once and bought a wonderful looking Swiss Army backpack. For the record, their clerks there did a fine job but they may have been from out of town.

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links for 2009-11-11

UrbanMinistry Bloggers — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:05:30 +0000

Penalty! Unnecessary Blandness! Redesigning the Worst NFL Helmet Graphics

Wow, the redesign of the New England Patriots is absolutely horrible.

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Where’s my hat?

UrbanMinistry Bloggers — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:13:42 +0000

For the last couple of years I have been looking for an outdoor hat. I know I used to live in Calgary but I haven’t own a cowboy hat since a certain green velour cowboy hat in the early 80s and I don’t intend to go down that road again. Even if elected to high office in Canada and needing to go to Calgary for the Calgary Stampede, I would not wear a cowboy hat.

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Warren Buffett’s $26 billion gamble on the next big thing

UrbanMinistry Bloggers — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:38:29 +0000

This is huge

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How to improve your online fundraising

UrbanMinistry Bloggers — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:57:53 +0000

Here is a quick guide to improve your non-profit’s online fundraising and here are some quick tips on not to screw up your year end fundraising. Of the two links, I think the second one is a must read.

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Discussing Everyday Justice 4

UrbanMinistry Bloggers — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:12:01 +0000

The recent contest to win a copy of Everyday Justice generated some fantastic comments and questions about justice issues. So I’ve been addressing some of those in blog posts. I don’t assume to have THE answers to anything, but just want to share my perspective and hope you will join in with yours as well.

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Is There Life After College?

UrbanMinistry Bloggers — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:36:42 +0000

I thought that some of you might be interested in these offerings from our time at Eastern Mennonite University.

The first is an article that appeared in the Mennonite Weekly Review – Hard Times Offer Chance to Help More

The second is a podcast of our address at EMU – New Possibilities for Life After EMU

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When two Rights make a Wrong: The arbitrary creation of rights and how it is destroying our most basic protections of law.

UrbanMinistry Bloggers — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:41:36 +0000

When Two Rights make a Wrong: The arbitrary creation of rights and how it is destroying our most basic protections of law. Click the link to hear the show

Human Rights are a Christian idea. Others might use, borrow, steal, reinterpret, or deny them but they are only possible within a worldview sufficient to give them proper grounding. Without this, they are just words that correspond to no existing object.

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“Get Over It”? Not So Fast…My Thoughts on the Deadly Vipers Controversy

UrbanMinistry Bloggers — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:41:12 +0000

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Emotional Day

UrbanMinistry Bloggers — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:08:25 +0000

Yesterday was an emotional day. My wife got her test results and they weren’t good. We’re now looking at a future surgery on her kidneys and dealing with the big “c” word – as it looks like she has cancer in her right kidney.

The amazing part of yesterday were the hundreds of Twitter responses that I received (plus text messages and phone calls from family, friends and ministers around the country). I saw the Body of Christ acting like the Body of Christ. I know we’re covered in prayer and we move forward with hope and trust in our God who heals.

We still have more tests, doctors and weeks of waiting to make sure we approach everything right. When you think about it – please lift my wife up in prayer. Her name is Chrissy (seen below) and she means the world to me.

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