Passover Animated: If Moses Had Internet

My home-church often has a seder to commemorate Jesus' final Passover and Christianity's Jewish roots. This year Passover will begin at sunset on April 18th, so here's something to get you in the spirit over the course of this next week...

Or just to geek out over an animated retelling of Exodus. Either one.

The Con Man: Hell Is All There Is

Check out this great piece from Six Sentences, a blog of creative submissions, each only six sentences long.

This one by David Blanton is an interesting follow-up to my recent "Overheard" post about one view of hell.

"Conning came natural to me. When I was 13, I met the man who would change my life, a con artist who called me Adam even though that's not my name..." Read more.

Shane Claiborne and The Simple Way

This is a chapel service at Drew (February 2011) in which the community welcomed activist and author Shane Claiborne to speak about his prophetic ministry, "The Simple Way."

I should have shared these videos in the first place, so please pretend that I'm not just posting them because I'm currently working on an assignment about Claiborne (and because I'm not signing into facebook during Lent, getting the codes to post these videos on AmenAbility was the best vaguely-facebookless way for me to review them!).

No, this service is worth sharing. I have mixed thoughts on Claiborne and his ministerial work, and I'm still struggling through this very short yet somehow agonizing assignment, but Claiborne has managed to work his way into several interesting conversations with colleagues and with others outside of Drew.

So see for yourself. What do you think?

And now excuse me while I go and write my pretend-letter homework.