Landfill Harmonic (Trailer)
Cateura, Paraguay is a town essentially built on top of a landfill. When orchestra director Szaran and music teacher Favio set up a music program for the kids of Cateura, they soon have more students than they have instruments…Today, there’s an entire orchestra of assembled instruments, now called The Recycled Orchestra…
The Line: Poverty In America – It’s Not What You Think (Film)
Some of you may be like me who has recently had hours cut at your job or you may be wrestling with unemployment. For millions of us, the poverty line is always above our heads…The Line is a groundbreaking forty-minute documentary uncovering the emerging and entrenched faces of poverty in our country…
Michah Bournes: Acts 17 and Turning the World Upside Down (Video)
The massively talented, poetry slammin’ Micah Bournes hits on a glaring discrepancy: “If the Gospel of Jesus is so revolutionary…why aren’t we turning the places where we live upside down like the early Christians in Acts 17?”
Paul Sparks: Salvation In The Neighborhood and the Great Reversal (Videos)
In these videos Alter Video Magazine and The Work of the People interviews Paul Sparks as he talks about how local living and learning to do life together is intimately related to spreading the Gospel of GOD’s upside down kingdom…
N.T. Wright: Mending Furniture and The New Creation [Video]
Another brilliant video from The Work of the People’s Alter Video Magazine, featuring N.T. Wright talking about mending furniture and how it relates to “ministry, justice, justification and new creation”
Place Matters: The Parish Collective on Churches, Places, and Spaces (video)
I recently had the privilege of meeting Paul Sparks of the Parish Collective when he was visiting the East Coast….I looked up and saw Jeremiah 29:7, inscribed on the building, which says: “Seek the peace of the city where I have sent you, for in it’s welfare, you will find your welfare”…
The Way (Movie Review)
The Way was a profound and entertaining film – touching on topics of spirituality and religion (or the lack of), pilgrimage and personal redemption, death, life, loss and and in turn healing, renewed hope and our need for community…
Agrarian Revival: New Blood In The Old Body (Crob Mob video)
Kudos to Trace Ramsey (aka Cricket Bread) for this brilliantly profound essay and video: Crop Mob: An Introduction…
TINY: A Story About Living Small (Film Trailer)
I am fascinated by the Tiny House movement. It is a brilliant way to reduce housing costs, simplify your life and live more lightly on the earth- all the while gaining time and money to more deeply pursue the kingdom purposes of GOD…
American Meat (film trailer)
What I find unique about this film project is they seem to be using it as merely a starting point for action. The film American Meat is apparently connected with a video-based social network called Leave It Better and another sister project Harvest Cloud…
