Earlier this fall, I had an extended conversation with Blake Chastain, host of the podcast Exvangelical. Exvangelical is a weekly podcast that shares stories of people who grew up or converted into Evangelical Christianity and have since built lives of faith and beyond faith outside of the subculture. Episode 14, “A Safe Place for Questions,” runs a […]
Watch Disruption and Listen to Climate Stew
If you have 53 minutes today or at any time this week, you have the time to watch 350.org’s film, Disruption. It’s captioned in English. “DISRUPTION” – a film by KELLY NYKS & JARED P. SCOTT from Watch Disruption on Vimeo. “Climate change exacerbates every kind of social injustice that faith communities have fought against for […]
Updates: Tumbling into Fall
Where did the summer go? I blinked and it was gone. June: Sunlight Foundation’s Transparency Camp (#tcamp14) I met the Sunlight Foundation’s operations director Scott Wells in May this year at a mutual friend’s new pastorate—just a few days after I’d seen a promoted tweet about the foundation’s annual un-conference on transparency, open government, and civic technologies: […]