Soooo I’m going to transition this site into less of a blog and more of a repository. Rather than post smaller pieces regularly, I’ll add some significant pieces I’ve worked on a couple times a year and I’ll keep the contact info current if anyone needs to find me online (it’s not the hard… really).

Goodbye and Hello.

The best part is, that’s exactly how I eat cheeseburgers at home. I hate ketchup on a burger (although I do like tomatoes) and I keep “spicy mustard” (actually whole grain dijon mustard) in my fridge all the time.

Also, that reminds me, we need another burger-off this summer.

So in the side bar is a quick video where I talk through the ideas of scientific concordism and the language of accommodation and how we can understand God speaking through the best understanding of times to communicate something that moves us towards relationship rather than scientific understanding.

If you want to listen to the original conversation you can hear Dr Lamoureux speak and then he and I answer questions here.

App Store
Evernote: simply awesome and the new 2.0 is so much faster

Last.fm: still on the list for now but if the CDN pay plan comes in this is off the list

Skype: VoIP on the iPhone. Nuff said. Although you’ll need to set up an American account to get it and the call quality has been inconsistent for me so far.

Wordpress: using it now to write this post. Obviously only useful if you have a wordpress powered site.

Twitterfon: best free twitter app.

Facebook: they’ve done a good job making it more stable and useful although access to events and phone book would be helpful.

Web Apps
Google Reader: perfect. Star, share, comment, catalogue all from the iPhone.

Buxfer: got me to move my personal finances into the cloud.

Wikipedia: there are a couple store apps available but honestly the official mobile portal through safari is great enough.

Jailbroken Apps
PDANet: 3G tethered modem. Awesome

Clippy: cut and paste ahead of the 3.0 update.

SBSettings: quick access to settings without having to leave apps.

Honourable Mentions
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Movies by Flixster
All Recipes

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Sure I own the original but this is Pearl Jam. My favorite band. So despite the fact that I abondoned physical CDs in favor of digital distribution years ago I went off to Best Buy to pick up a copy.

$43.99

Are you kidding me?

Sure it’s two CDs and a 6 song DVD but come on, 40+ dollars for songs I already own? Not to mention the $21 I paid for the same songs on RockBand yesterday.

You’re killing me guys.

Maybe I’ve been conditioned by the internets but that seems a little exorbinant.

Post Script:
I found and bought the album for $30 online.

pps:
Posted from my iPhone forgiv the spelling (see what I did there)

The sexy part, the part I’m personally really looking forward to most, is having Dr Lamoureux down to talk about Jesus + Evolution this Sunday night because I really feel there are far too many people who see science and evolution as some kind of barrier to exploring the Jesus story. For those of us that not only accept, but are fascinated by, and find beauty in, a concept like evolution, I think it’s important to acknowledge that this doesn’t have to be a barrier to spirituality. I may write some more thoughts about this later but the ability to move past the argument and past sound bites is, in my opinion, the more important concept for us to understand as a community, because the skill with which we do that will determine our ability to engage in meaningful dialogue regardless of where we personally stand on the “issues”. Without that we run the risk, in a very real way, of missing the point.

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Anyway, my Top Ten

1 Ryan Adams
2 Pearl Jam
3 Linkin Park
4 Fiona Apple
5 U2
6 Switchfoot
7 Oasis
8 Tegan and Sara
9 Dashboard Confessional
10 Weezer

No mention of Death Cab, Band of Horses or TV on the Radio… all of which I would put ahead of numbers 3 through 10 today.

The problem is without that centering idea, it’s tough to give context to decisions and their impact in community.

So here’s the language I’ve been using for the past year or two in my own mind to understand Jesus.

Jesus is God, stepped into history (for me this is about the divinity of Jesus – it’s what makes sure my faith stays Christian and not just Jesus-based enlightenment)

To save us from ourselves (this is about sin, but trying to understand it not as a list of taboo actions or ideas but as worst tendencies inside me. It’s about the hard edge of Jesus teaching – you’re way is death)

To show us a new way to live (this is enlightenment for me. Jesus is not just religion, Christianity is not just mental ascent to ideological principles. The Jesus way is a new way to live and grow and become)

To dismantle the infrastructure we’ve built between ourselves and God (this is about religion. Jesus comes to help us step over it, to move from the life we’re living directly towards the life we were meant to live)

And invite into relationship with our creator (this is about experience for me. My faith is logical and rational but never completely defined by empirical evidence. There is, always will be, and must be, the personal non-transferable relationship that exists between myself and God)

Still needs work…