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Free Christmas Music Album — Creative Commons for Remixing

The Christ­mas album my friend Brooke and I recorded last year is still avail­able as a free down­load: it’s a quiet, acoustic album of Christ­mas stan­dards called Songs to Sing Around a Dead Tree to Soothe It Back to Life. More inter­est­ing, though, is that I licensed it under the Cre­ative Com­mons Share Alike License, which means, you can take [...]
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Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation

I just fin­ished watch­ing Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation. This is a shot-for-shot remake of the orig­i­nal, filmed over 6 years, by 3 teenagers. Who started when they were 12. It’s phe­nom­e­nal. Seri­ously. I was really suprised. Here’s some rea­sons why it’s brilliant: 1. it’s actu­ally done. If you owned a cam­corder in the [...]
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Brian McLaren Interview

Today, I lis­tened to Brian McLaren on the Nick and Josh Pod­cast. He was talk­ing about his new book, which I’m read­ing: Every­thing Must Change. Here’s the quick overview: What are the world’s biggest prob­lems? What does Jesus have to say about them? Trans­la­tion: we ought to be work­ing to elim­i­nate poverty and injustice. As [...]
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