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Busby Foundation "2009 Flavors of the Town"

simplegestures wrote 3 months ago: My friend Don Busby has a foundation supporting the fight against ALS here in central Texas and Aust … more →

Tags: Austin, Inspiration, Love, ALS, Busy Foundation, fundraiser, Lou Gehrig's Disease

Austin Coaster Crawl Against Human Trafficking Saturday August 8

simplegestures wrote 3 months ago: My friend Shelton is organizing a pub crawl this Saturday to raise awareness around human traffickin … more →

Tags: Austin, Connecting Technologies, Putting it Into Practice, Austin, Texas, BookPeople, Human Trafficking, Modern Day Slavery

Surrendering to your Imperfections

simplegestures wrote 4 months ago: The longer I live and the more encounters I have with other people, the more I realize I don’t … more →

Tags: Putting it Into Practice, Austin

Happy Birthday to Journey Imperfect Faith Community

simplegestures wrote 4 months ago: Today our tribe celebrates its 5th anniversary as a faith family committed to each other and to the … more →

Tags: Putting it Into Practice, God, Love, Austin

Swimming at Barton Springs

simplegestures wrote 6 months ago: Swimming at Barton Springs, originally uploaded by carlmc. The trees are out to get us!!!! Austin mu … more →

Tags: Putting it Into Practice, Transparency, Austin

Love Wins Again! part 12 comments

simplegestures wrote 6 months ago: Waves by David Sifry The post-Christian world has been proclaimed in Europe and is certainly making … more →

Tags: Stories of God, Inspiration, Putting it Into Practice, Connecting Technologies, Love, Transparency, Austin

SXSW 2009 Student Film Contest

simplegestures wrote 8 months ago: Last night went to SXSW Student Film Contest Screening and saw the future of filmmaking. Besides the … more →

Tags: Inspiration, Austin, Students, SXSW, film, Filmmaking, film students

Political Heroes

simplegestures wrote 8 months ago: From today’s Austin American Statesman, “Report: Homeless kids fare worst in Texas … more →

Tags: Putting it Into Practice, self-righteousness

Making Bricks

simplegestures wrote 8 months ago: This picture is taken from a site established by the State Department who commissioned one of their … more →

Tags: Stories of God, Putting it Into Practice, Connecting Technologies, God, Love, Evil, Family, Slavery, India

A Day to Pray

simplegestures wrote 9 months ago: As my faith has grown, as my understanding of God’s love has deepened I am learning to listen … more →

Tags: Inspiration, Putting it Into Practice, God, Love

Urban Connection Austin

simplegestures wrote 10 months ago: My friend Dean Smith started Urban Connection Austin which is focused on enabling communities to reb … more →

Tags: Inspiration, Putting it Into Practice, God, Love, Austin, urban connection, Urban Ministry, 78758, Community Impact Newspaper Austin

Those Eyes2 comments

simplegestures wrote 11 months ago: IMG_7245, originally uploaded by carlmc. On occasion I have terrible thoughts that race around my co … more →

Tags: God, Love

Ain't it Grand!

simplegestures wrote 11 months ago: I often wonder if people recognized when they were living in moments that rocked the world? For exam … more →

Tags: Putting it Into Practice, Connecting Technologies, Love, Music, Bono, technology, Africa, AIDS

M. Brnjas thinking on Community

intentionalcommunity wrote 1 year ago: [[[[Some personal thoughts on community, these are not necessarily reflected by the rest of the comm … more →

Tags: Intentional Community, Thoughts, new monasticism

Some quick thoughts on where we are.

intentionalcommunity wrote 1 year ago:                   I am excited. The thought of living a life of community and challenge, faith and s … more →

Tags: Cost, poverty, Repulsion, Community

The Grass isn't Always Greener

simplegestures wrote 1 year ago: I took these photos on the last day of baseball at Concordia before they tore it all down. And took … more →

Tags: Miscellaneous, Austin, Baseball, Concordia University, development

POTUS 44

simplegestures wrote 1 year ago: I was passed this meme by my brother Rick and it goes like this: * each blogger posts 44 things abou … more →

Tags: Inspiration, Love, obama, Meme, POTUS 44, 4444

Today We Stand Together

simplegestures wrote 1 year ago: Today is like no other day, it is the day we listen to one another. Today is the day we stand togeth … more →

Tags: Inspiration, Putting it Into Practice, Community, vote, democracy, USA, Freedom

Church Politics3 comments

simplegestures wrote 1 year ago: Today the faith community we call home, made a bold political statement. We agreed to center our exi … more →

Tags: Inspiration, Putting it Into Practice, God, Love, Austin, Community, Journey IFC, Church & Politics, Martin Luther King


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