Posted by Daniel
on March 10, 2008
Over at Organic Jesus awhile ago(site is now dormant) Brandon Rhodes did a series talking about The Age of Less(here, here, here and here). The basic idea is that shifting forces in the global economy and us hitting peak oil will bring to an end our current age of prosperity. No more will we be able to purchase all kinds of cheap stuff. It will be an Age of Less. His focus is on christians and the church(which is a worthwhile focus), but the principle applies throughout our country. Our current way of life is not sustainable.
World crude oil production has been slowly falling and unless it turns around 2005 will go down in history as the peak year. Besides oil, issues with the US dollar, the sub-prime housing crisis and the subsequent slowing US economy have kicked off the age for many in the US already. Welcome to the Age of Less.
Posted by Daniel
on February 27, 2008
This map of the US(ht: Richard Florida) explains a bit why I felt like I entered a different country when moving to Virginia. We moved into Baptist country apparently.
Posted by Daniel
on February 27, 2008
Well, I promised a follow-up with some highlights of the teachings. Of course I’m a slacker and I’ve not done that, but here is the audio from the Ecclesia Gathering. Enjoy.
Posted by Daniel
on February 17, 2008
This past week I was up in Chevy Chase, MD for a few days at the Ecclesia Network National Gathering. Brent, Eric and I went up together. It was a pretty great time. I got to connect with a lot of great people, some I met there and some that I haven’t seen in a while(lots of VT people from NLCF).
We also got to hear from David Fitch and Alan and Deb Hirsch plus a couple of breakout sessions(I went to JR and Todd’s sessions). I’ll post some highlights from the teaching(and links to audio when they go up) in the near future.
We had some time to be social too. The first night a bunch of people wanted to smoke cigars so we went out to Ozio. It is quite the amazing place if you are into cigars and martini’s. I was disappointed with their beer selection and wasn’t smoking, but it was good to hang out. The next night we hit up the local Rock Bottom and enjoyed a couple good beers and good hangout time. On our afternoon break we got to hit up The Potter’s House with Clay and Leslie(longtime friends and co-pastors of Horizon Owings Mills). I have a ton of respect for the different things that The Church of The Saviour has done in DC and it was neat to see one of their churches/ministries/missions.
You will have to wait patiently for hightlights from the teachings, but I promise they are coming.
Posted by Daniel
on February 11, 2008
I’ll be heading up to DC(well, Maryland side) for the Ecclesia National Gathering tomorrow morning with Brent and Eric. I’m looking forward to connecting/re-connecting with some awesome people and dreaming some. Also we get to hear from/hang out with Alan Hirsch and David Fitch. Don’t know how much I’ll be online, but you can expect to hear at least the highlights sometime.
