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August 12, 2007
By: Cathi-Lyn Dyck, Managing Editor
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Getting back to the land, owning an acreage or a small farm, is a really cool fad these days. Everyone’s doing it, you know.
For one, it seems to mesh with a certain portion of the Christian homeschooling community, so well that conservative Christian businessfolk Paul and Gena Suarez expanded their online business to cater to Christian homesteaders. What began as The Old Schoolhouse Magazine and HomeschoolBlogger.com now includes HomesteadBlogger.com, which amounts to an online small town in both size and culture.
What’s the deal? Well, the rhetoric about good management of the earth comes from a couple of directions—one, it comes from within the churches. What amounts to campaign materials are handed out to churches and denominations. These even include sermon suggestions for incorporating concern for the earth. [1]
Two, like those campaign materials, the rhetoric comes from secular sources. Accusations link Christianity to male domination and exploitation of, like, everything—women, children, and dolphins. (I had no idea my church’s deacons had so much spare time on their hands.) Homesteading and ecological awareness is one response from the Christian community.
Most of all, though, there is realistic motivation for individuals as they pick up on the realities of our food distribution system. People aren’t satisfied with blueberries that have been sitting on the boat from Chile for a month. [2] Folks are absorbing a perennial flow of news items about environmental concerns, and an ever-expanding grassroots buzz about better living.
The sustainability movement has links to globalism, and also contains plenty of pagan philosophy. Are Christians aware of everything they’re adopting? And what about pagans? I’ve seen several pagans try to integrate into the HomesteadBlogger community, only to end up leaving or limiting their participation, for various reasons. Do Christians handle these interactions wisely?
Lemme know what you think. [3]
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[1] Forcing Change Magazine, Issue 6, Volume 1, www.forcingchange.org
[2] See http://lazycreek.net/TYDOS/2007/04/seasonal-produce-and-winter-eating.html for more information.
[3] Author’s note: The uploading of this post was fraught with homesteading peril, so I appeal to the record for grounds that my frazzled nerves deserve the contribution of your opinion, dear reader.
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July 29, 2007
By: Cathi-Lyn Dyck, Managing Editor
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Urgh… Groan… There’s a Monday looming somewhere, full of foggy-brainedness and weekday drudgery. And, worst of all, no live, interactive Marty-and-Bob broadcast till Tuesday. Gasp!
Fear not! My name is Cathi-Lyn Dyck, and I am here to rescue you from Mondays. I’m a freelance writer and editor, and I’m not from your neck of the woods. I can just about guarantee this because there are so very few people in my neck of the woods.
I live in the Canadian prairies, six miles from the Middle of Nowhere. I am a Master Gardener, I’ve been experimenting with the development of a Community Supported Agriculture
project, I raise a lot of my own food, and I milk my own cow. No joke.
I also homeschool four wild (but not uncultivated) children whose online names are Spazzerific, Banana Brain, Squirrelly Girlie, and Brat Boy. That should explain a few things about them.
I have spontaneously popped into view like a little mushroom in order to share cool topics of semi-obscurity. These include things like sustainability, Christian homesteading, organic gardening, and the occasional (no, really, occasional) opinionated opinion. Meet me here on Monday—bring coffee, and I’ll be nice to you.
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June 21, 2007
By: Marty
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The Show
You just found one of the fastest growing LIVE INTERACTIVE TALK AND MUSIC SHOWS on the Internet.
Humble O Radio is a conversation about Christianity and Culture and the Sub-Culture of Christianity and how it all mixes together. Each week we’ll have interesting guests talking about topics as varied as the latest book, movie and music release to Theology. At some point we may talk about the theology of various books, music and movies, who knows?!?
One thing for sure, the show will be fun. Hopefully challenging and informative. No bashing those outside or inside the church just an opportunity to wonder out loud, ask about, discuss and challenge the mindset of both.
Humble O Radio gets its name from the saying “My Humble Opinion” or online “MHO” but it perfectly describes what this site is really all about. We want to hear your opinion and in kind provide ours too. It seems to have escaped our culture but it is called an exchange of ideas.
THE HOST
Marty Daniels
Marty is a Comedian who yucks it up with dozens of churches, civic groups and corporate organizations around the United States each year.
Prior going full time in Stand Up Comedy back in 02 he spent 17 years in radio in great cities around the country.
Marty is currently looking for a publisher for his two books “Individually Warped” and “The Twelve Step Program For Coffee Drinkers.” He lives in Columbus with his wife, Trina and NEDD THE WONDER PUPPY!
In his free time Marty likes to design digital artwork that pays tributes to historical figures.
THE BLOGGERS:
- Trina Daniels: Is a published writer and photographer who is currently working on her first screenplay. She is an advocate of integrated health care and is married to Marty.
She is the founder of “Dogs Reign” an upstart organization bringing together the very best information and resources for the care of your dog.
- Cathi-Lyn Dyck: Cathi-Lyn and her family live in the wildly adventurous Canadian Prairie. She is a freelance writer and editor, Master Gardener, wife and Mother who homeschools four WILD though not uncultivated children who online are identified as Spazzerific, Banana Brain, Squirrelly Girlie and Brat Boy.
She spontaneously popped into view like a little mushroom in order to share cool topics of semi-obscurity. These include things like sustainability, Christian homesteading, organic gardening, and opinionated opinions.
- Patrick Oden: Patrick has a history and theology degree from Wheaton College and a Master of Divinity from Fuller Theological Seminary. He lives, writes, runs, watches birds, and kayaks in Lake Arrowhead, California.
Patrick is the author of It’s A Dance
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- Olivia Stallings: Olivia is a single mom of two boys ages 10 and 3 who currently works as a Senior Business Analyst for the government. She is a mentor to teen youth children in her community where she is able to help them with challenging situations because of her past troubled childhood. She is a writer and enjoys writing about spirituality. She is also in the process of publishing a book titled You Are Never Alone and tells about her life journey, a struggle to overcome the trials and tribulations of rape, child neglect, abortion and just surviving.
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