tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50502492011-09-08T23:40:29.507-04:00the reluctant church planterhansonnoreply@blogger.comBlogger801100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-1060105037620138452003-08-05T13:37:00.000-04:002003-08-05T13:47:54.456-04:00document.location="http://www.hansoncarter.com/";hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-958819012003-06-20T22:48:00.000-04:002003-06-22T01:40:14.000-04:00on hiatus.....hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-957989972003-06-18T14:12:00.000-04:002003-06-18T14:17:22.000-04:00Opinions are like .........well, you know....everybody's got one, but in the "for what it's worth" department here are some of my observations coming out of COS. As a lapsed southern conservative (hey, C.S. Lewis called himself a lapsed atheist), It soon became apparent that these guys had that liberal, politically active mindset that fundies everywhere love to bash. They also have a passion hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-957265732003-06-16T15:20:00.000-04:002003-06-16T15:20:07.320-04:00Will Sansbury is back with some great thoughts about Bender playing god on Futurama. It's pretty cool! hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-957006112003-06-15T22:17:00.000-04:002003-06-15T22:17:08.560-04:00Hey Larry, Click on this link for the servant leadership school at Washington D.C. On a general note. The womens retreat was great. One of the people participating in the life of our community hit that tipping point that signifies fully entering into kingdom life at the retreat. Acceptance Affirmation Allegiance Grace is scandalously good aint it! hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-956856732003-06-15T10:55:00.000-04:002003-06-15T13:53:28.000-04:00 Isaiah 28:15-16 You say, "We've taken out good life insurance. We've hedged all our bets, covered all our bases. No disaster can touch us. We've thought of everything. We're advised by the experts. We're set." But the Master, GOD, has something to say to this"Watch closely. I'm laying a foundation in Zion, a solid granite foundation, squared and true. And this is the meaning of the stone: Ahansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-955378392003-06-11T01:41:00.000-04:002003-06-11T01:41:33.886-04:00Oh crap! It rained all last weekend during our mens retreat/campout and now its going to rain throughout the next week. I took advantage of the three day window of sunshine to roll out a new section of roof on the back portion of my house (which was leaking) and got a nice pair of shorts completely covered with roofing tar (too lazy to change but not too lazy to lay a roof...go figure). Now I hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-953316442003-06-05T11:56:00.000-04:002003-06-06T02:27:14.000-04:00Took the Matrix personality test, apparently I have the power to offer you the blue pill or the red pill. So..........which will it be? COS was kind of like one of those ten pound pizzas they used to serve at Shakeys for anyone brave enough to try. It's goooood going down but the effect is like a stealth bomber later on...it stays with you and then resurfaces in ways you never expected. I hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-949943432003-05-28T12:16:00.000-04:002003-05-28T12:16:25.583-04:00Seven of us going to Church of the Savior in D.C. today.....hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-948814252003-05-25T23:23:00.000-04:002003-05-26T11:24:20.000-04:00Went to the huddle house for breakfast this morning and this one dude came riding up on a motorcycle with a sidecar. What tripped me out was the dude was riding in the sidecar and no one was on the motorcycle. Turns out he was handicapped and all the controls for the motorcycle were in the sidecar. I love stuff like that. Church this afternoon I mentioned there are something like 168 hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-948081902003-05-23T20:16:00.000-04:002003-05-25T23:09:40.000-04:00Hey Keck I'm holding you to your promise to get new smileys.... The squawk box smileys on jon reids blog are greathansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-947910932003-05-23T12:02:00.000-04:002003-05-23T12:02:33.063-04:00For some seriously good reading thats vitamin packed (and filling too) visit the hilarity that is mung mung dog. New York humor is awesome! hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-947102692003-05-21T19:55:00.000-04:002003-05-21T23:43:24.000-04:00The funeral... Last Friday in the middle of getting ready for the conference, working on various cars and other general mayhem I got a phone call from a woman who had been in one of my small groups almost fifteen years ago. When Janice called she sounded unusually subdued and as she made her request I knew why. "My father in law died yesterday, can you do the funeral Sunday"? Now I've only hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-946964382003-05-21T14:06:00.000-04:002003-05-21T14:12:31.000-04:00This description of the hernia operation a friend of mine went through comes from my southern fried friend Von.... "Well, they they cut his nut sack open and stuffed kevlar inside, while his chitlins was hangin out"! The really goooood conversation starts when you give Von a bottle of Evan Williams. hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-945941092003-05-19T15:17:00.000-04:002003-05-19T18:07:19.000-04:00I'm still processing through a really strange weekend.... It started Thursday with an e-mail out of the blue from Mike Bishop from the what is church crew. He introduced himself by telling me that he's been reading my blog pretty much since it started and that he's coming to a church planters conference thats being held at the Augusta Vineyard where he's been asked to do a workshop on hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-945399542003-05-18T12:25:00.000-04:002003-05-18T12:25:31.206-04:00I've been asked to do the funeral today for someone I've never met.....help me God to translate hope in the midst of despair.hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-944471872003-05-16T09:20:00.000-04:002003-05-16T09:20:04.263-04:00Went to see Matrix Reloaded last night......I don't know, the action stuff was great but what was up with the extended love scene between Neo and Trinity intermingled with the Zion rave/tribal fertility dance. I'm still trying to figure out why I'm so disappointed other than the fact that messiah figures with hard ons are more reflective of the asinine qualities of our culture than any attempts hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-943726062003-05-15T01:24:00.000-04:002003-05-15T08:05:44.000-04:00Dogs are awesome....we have two! One is a middling size schnauzer named Boo who is blind in one eye and getting a little long in the tooth. The other one is a miniature rat terrier named Cricket who has more than earned her keep in our house. First our house... We live in a large old (circa 1908) two story house downtown which is situated right next door to the Baptist rescue mission which hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-942480612003-05-13T01:34:00.000-04:002003-05-13T13:23:27.000-04:00Angella makes me laugh...my daughter states in her blog that among her list of ideal "dreamy guys" would be an Englishman with decent teeth. Is that a genetic thing? Or did she meet a bunch of Brits with bad teeth during her six month stay in Australia. Anyway.... She has been after me to eat more vegetarian and less meat which reminded me of my first encounter with hardcore vegetarians. hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-942472172003-05-13T01:16:00.000-04:002003-05-13T09:09:12.000-04:00Due to the number of electricians, contractors and other hands on types around our church, one sees a lot of guys with tool belts.....Unfortunately along with that there has been a large amount of "plumbers crack" on display. So much in fact that many of the wives have asked that we put out a beefcake calendar of the Downtown Vineyard men wearing tool belts. That...along with the comments about hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-941755352003-05-11T21:33:00.000-04:002003-05-11T21:33:20.046-04:00Somebody made the comment that the "ministry time" was better than my sermon. My response: "Isn't that the way it's supposed to be. Afterwards we all went out and ate chinese (heh heh).hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-939727102003-05-08T01:02:00.000-04:002003-05-08T01:11:05.000-04:00I'm picky about where I eat chinese food. Some restaurants use too much MSG which always makes me nauseous. I'm thinking about this in light of the story Joey told me about his worst experience at a chinese restaurant. Now Joey, at 6 foot five and about 350 pounds, makes me look small. But Joey also has a high pitched voice which sounds and looks really odd for his size and sometimes leads tohansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-938441672003-05-06T01:12:00.000-04:002003-05-06T01:23:01.000-04:00Been wrestling with a mission statement that reflects our fellowship when I received this e-mail from Mike Leaptrott concerning that very issue in the context of what drew us all together in the first place. When you read it you'll understand why I love and value this guy. One of the questions that Will asked me on Thursday that I couldn't get my arms around completely was..."What are the hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-935122602003-04-30T00:45:00.000-04:002003-04-30T00:45:36.823-04:00Welcome to my daughter Angella to blogworld. The name of her blog is webtruffles with the byline "tasty little bits of insignificance". Hmmmm...I like your style my dear.hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-935018412003-04-29T21:33:00.000-04:002003-04-29T21:36:12.000-04:00Exploring the idea of opening a garage....I need one anyway with all the cars around my house. You know you're getto fabulous when you have 9 cars parked in front of your house and all of them are yours. I should call it punk rock motors because they're always asking me about cars. Speaking of punk rock....picked up Joey Doo Doo (dont ask) at 2 a.m. drunk and stumbling home (which was 4 mileshansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-934500172003-04-29T02:18:00.000-04:002003-04-29T02:18:20.376-04:00The part I didn't tell about Sunday was having to prostrate myself on the floor in front of everybody in our fellowship and repent for my own lousy attitudes about worship. Ever have one of those mental dialogues with God while you're talking in front of everybody: "How can you talk about repentance and worship unless you model it'? 'What do you mean God'? "Show them that I'm God". The next hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-933984872003-04-28T09:51:00.000-04:002003-04-28T09:53:30.000-04:00Kudos to our gal pal Erin who has entered blogworld. She works at Target and some of the observations she has about the customers who come through checkout are great stuff. I like your writing FairVeronaGirl. Can't wait for you to get some shout outs so I can comment. Its Monday, I'm gonna work on cars alllll day long. Going to my favorite salvage yard (U pull it) to hunt for parts for an 86hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-933742992003-04-27T22:52:00.000-04:002003-04-27T22:52:32.040-04:00Talked from 1 Samuel 25 about Nabal (the fool) and parallelled his attitude and response toward Davids' request with our own attitude before God in worship.. We asked God to forgive us for our hardheartedness and self absorption. We also came from our gathering tonight with a fresh reminder that we're all hurting dysfunctional people with much to learn about rightly relating, as well as ourhansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-933296232003-04-27T01:15:00.000-04:002003-04-29T01:53:45.000-04:00This comes from a book I'm reading called Boundaries : "The bible warns us against giving to others 'reluctantly or under compulsion' (2 Cor 9:7). People with poor boundaries struggle with saying no to the control, pressure, demands, and sometimes the real needs of others. They feel that if thay say no to someone, they will endanger their relationship with that person so they passively comply buthansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-932803002003-04-26T00:39:00.000-04:002003-04-26T01:52:29.000-04:00Been thinking a lot about money today. Let me tell you this story about something that influenced the way I viewed money in my twenties when I was selling cars. The very first car I ever sold was at a Dodge dealership I think around 79 or 80. I was around 24 years old and fresh out of the Army. This particular dealership had quite a reputation in our town. I'm not kidding about this, fifty hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-930913162003-04-23T00:14:00.000-04:002003-04-23T01:46:07.000-04:00Mike L calls me on his way to the lake. Seems two Hispanic fellows that speak no English were stranded with their truck broken down on the side of the road. Mike asked me if I knew of a wrecker service that ran in that particular area of I-20 which I did not. About that time Mike says,"oh here comes a wrecker now"! The next thing I hear over Mikes' cell phone in the background is this loooong hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-930023912003-04-21T16:42:00.000-04:002003-04-21T16:42:33.280-04:00The weekend at the lake was great. Will did an awesome job with the stations of the cross. It was, for me, the highlight of the weekend. Everybody came home Sunday afternoon and crashed. I'm still tired.hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-928795432003-04-19T03:51:00.000-04:002003-04-19T03:51:19.950-04:00Stayed at the bars until 3 am this morning....saw a lot of friends and talked God with a lot of drunks who will not remember a damn thing! The best was a comment by one friend of mine who said "sin does not have a part of me, alcohol and women are only temporary obstacles between me and God. The fact that he almost fell face down on the sidewalk while he said it only made the conversation more hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-928411142003-04-18T11:32:00.000-04:002003-04-18T11:32:53.280-04:00I ran across this post dated November 6 from Sjogrens blog: Today I finished the final portion of the new Regal book Community of Kindness. It should be out to the public in February next year. It deals with the details of atmosphere development in the local church. That is, after we've invited them in through servant evangelism what sort of environment are we inviting them into. We can't be hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-928386942003-04-18T10:43:00.000-04:002003-04-18T10:43:54.420-04:00We've got some cool stuff planned for Easter weekend at the lake. Check out Wills blog over the last few days for the details. Our church is crazy....crazy enough that I continually wonder if I'm doing the right thing. I'm struggling a lot with depression lately. I hate labels but I'm going to toss out a few to give you an idea of the kind of people that comprise our community. For example...hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-923384342003-04-10T00:25:00.000-04:002003-04-10T00:50:37.000-04:00Read in Steve Sjogrens' blog that Pamela Anderson has been going to the Malibu Vineyard. "You're blessed when you are at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule". Matthew 5 This Wednesday night we were discussing gifting and "ministry" to each other as opposed (or maybe not) to the ongoing tension that drives us to an outward focus. Where is the balance hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-922549072003-04-08T20:22:00.000-04:002003-04-09T01:50:15.000-04:00golf sux golf sux golf sux golf sux golf sux..........I hate The Masters!!!! The traffic, the annual exodus of the people who can afford to leave, and the legion of guys in golf shirts and hats that come downtown to get drunk and go to the strip clubs combine to make this one of the more miserable weeks of the year in Augusta. One of my buddies who works as a waiter at a restaurant here in hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-922522812003-04-08T19:26:00.000-04:002003-04-08T19:26:09.530-04:00listening to Sigur Ros on this rainy day....fits my mood. Also been working on cars for the last few days. Turning wrenches is good therapy for when I don't feel like being around people. My last pastor walked in on me when I was standing underneath a car cussing a blue streak after busting the crap out of my knuckles. He said he learned a few new words that day. I told him that would cost hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-921963472003-04-07T23:39:00.000-04:002003-04-08T00:11:54.000-04:00I know....haven't posted for a week. We had our weekly "meeting" yesterday at 4 pm. Usually we do an open mic and a potluck around the first Sunday but none of us were even in the mood to do an open mic. I think the time change has us all out of wack. We just ate dinner , talked and watched a movie afterwards (Red Dragon). I'm also questioning the effectiveness of "meetings". It seems to me hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-918638002003-04-02T15:15:00.000-05:002003-04-02T15:33:37.000-05:00Been thinking about my buddy Steve Brink today. Fellow coffee shop entrepeneur/adventurer, weightlifter, hiker of the Appalachian trail and mentor to young castoffs everywhere. He and my buddy Dan Wager were members of the same fraternity at Clemson before coming to Augusta Ga where they had the misfortune to run into yours truly ten years ago. Steve dropped by about a year ago before hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-917800572003-04-01T11:41:00.000-05:002003-04-01T11:44:26.000-05:00I'm submitting this excerpt from, Where Resident Aliens Live by William Willimon and Stanley Hauerwas and wondering just how much I have succumbed to our culture. Growing the Church, the Old Fashioned Way What would it mean for our church to be a disciplined community? Here we want to juxtapose our accout of the church with that offered in most of the church growth movement. There's a hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-917144582003-03-31T11:10:00.000-05:002003-03-31T11:13:39.000-05:00Been reading a fascinating blog by a 27 y/o woman called Dooce (I dont know whether thats the name of the blog or her nickname) and this blog is just flat GOOD. Check out her March 28 post in the archives. William Willimon remarked of Stanley Hauerwas: "He thinks Southern civility one of the most calculated forms of cruelty ever produced". Amen to that! hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-915615642003-03-28T14:21:00.000-05:002003-03-28T14:25:34.000-05:00Good grief! Stepped on the scales yesterday at the health club and weighed a smoove 308 lbs. No wonder the guys on the street have been calling me 'Big Daddy'. As Crazy Johnny used to tell me, "Hey Mr Hanson, you were skinny one time huh, about three thousand cheeseburgers ago". It's not ALL lard, been lifting weights for years, but I gotta get back on that stinking treadmill and off the hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-915606922003-03-28T14:04:00.000-05:002003-03-28T14:04:19.746-05:00Ya gotta love The Onion cuz if you dont, as Ice Cube says, "You might just get your ass smote"! hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-914335882003-03-26T15:58:00.000-05:002003-03-26T16:36:30.000-05:00I hate flying in airplanes, I always have. I remember being maybe seven or eight years old and flying with my dad and a friend of his in a single engine Cessna from Georgia to Florida. Everything was o.k. until we hit a severe thunderstorm near the Ga/Fla border. I remember the sky grew dark and ominous and huge black clouds began to form around us. I felt the chill of thickening moisture in hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-912041002003-03-22T20:56:00.000-05:002003-03-22T20:56:53.530-05:00This comes from the blog of Jon Reid : if you just read the synoptic gospels, it sounds like here are these people, minding their own business, when along comes this odd fellow out of the blue who says, "Follow me." Dumping everything on the spot, they follow this person they know nothing about. So I'm thankful that John gives us a different view that starts earlier in the story, when some of hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-911410472003-03-21T14:47:00.000-05:002003-03-21T14:47:52.390-05:00I'm finally starting to post on the Orwells Cafe blog. Will try to keep it true to life.hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-911030682003-03-20T23:15:00.000-05:002003-03-20T23:20:22.000-05:00Steve Sjogren has been an amazing friend. I remember the first time I approached him some years back. I remember thinking "This guy is too important to talk to me, he pastors a church of thousands". Imagine my surprise when he made me the focus of his attention during our five minute conversation and immediately put me at ease. I think that must have been a quality that typified Jesus hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-910741932003-03-20T14:06:00.000-05:002003-03-20T14:06:01.153-05:00Eric Keck wrote about his first experience with worship prior to entering the kingdom. It was good to read. We have struggled with worship in our community for three years now and I'm wondering if im not responsible for most of that dynamic....too much deconstruction I suppose. hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-910520232003-03-20T06:08:00.000-05:002003-03-20T14:09:42.000-05:00I am really enjoying this discussion over the work of N.T. Wright. It gets even better when it turns "political", although I'm more interested in how all of this works out in my day to day life. Pugilism anyone?hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-910498592003-03-20T04:49:00.000-05:002003-03-20T04:49:30.263-05:00It's raining like hell outside (eighth day in a row now) which has been fueling a really bad case of insomnia.....I get depressed when it rains like this. A good session in the weight room later this morning should help that. Wednesday night was good though....Dan stepped up to the plate and started a really good teaching on the gifts. He's 33 or 34 (I'm terrible at remembering stuff like thathansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-910391142003-03-19T23:57:00.000-05:002003-03-20T00:04:45.000-05:00Found this Q and A on "the kedge". I think it probably describes our little community here in Augusta to a "T". What are you hoping to accomplish through Fight Club? uh hmmm "Fight Club"... to support, mutually equip, resource, love, and network a few guys that dream similar dreams... that are interested in being a part of a movement that Jesus leads and they facilitate... and to pick a hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-909408642003-03-18T14:39:00.000-05:002003-03-18T14:41:33.000-05:00Ran across an article by N.T. Wright online. The title alone provoked me to read it: "Pauls Gospel and Caesars' Empire. Here's the link if you're interested. The coffee shop proceeds apace.hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-908179752003-03-16T16:23:00.000-05:002003-03-16T19:48:56.000-05:00Showed parts of the film Fight Club, Sunday. Along with that I provided some quotes from people involved in the making of the film along with some quotes from The Message. Enjoy...... FIGHT CLUB ….The longing for fathers…the resentment of lifestyle standards imposed by advertising….The goal all along was to write a novel based on being with people and listening to them. That’s why so muchhansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-908088752003-03-16T12:07:00.000-05:002003-03-16T12:07:39.013-05:00Went to the Firehouse (a local bar) Friday night. Lots of old school people that hung out in Orwells in 94 were there. I always like nights like that...it's kind of like a family reunion. Standing outside on the sidewalk bustin on each other and shootin the breeze, just like old times.hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-907853672003-03-15T21:30:00.000-05:002003-03-16T11:56:08.000-05:00Hey Buddha, I know I'm still your hero.....English 101hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-907089012003-03-14T09:07:00.000-05:002003-03-15T21:25:18.000-05:00Hellllllp!!!! Will, I cant figure out how to get these guys linked to my blog...... I LIKE these new friends I'm making in the world of blogging. Particularly my friend Jeremy Barham who related this story in his blog: "I love preaching - you get to say what you think, uninterrupted, and then everyone says how great it was. I was doing John 13 where Jesus washes his disciples' feet. It hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-906970182003-03-14T02:29:00.000-05:002003-03-14T15:02:13.000-05:00Where did people get the idea that you have to "make yourself presentable" before you come around "Gods people"!!! I had a twenty year old kid that sat on my front porch for a year and we talked about God, the Bible, and acceptance. Everytime he came to my front porch he brought no less than five 40s of malt liquor (he had been an alcoholic since age twelve) which he drank while we talked. hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-906504572003-03-13T10:53:00.000-05:002003-03-13T10:54:37.000-05:00One of my favorite comics books is Cadillacs and Dinosaurs that showed up in the 80's. It's that whole post apocolyptic thing where earth returns to nature and mechanics (that happen to drive around in 50's era cadillacs are near the top of the human food chain in terms of staus. Yeeaah...I love this stuff. My friend Will Sansbury shares that same mindset (he is the guy that runs the websites I hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-905880302003-03-12T09:42:00.000-05:002003-03-12T09:51:52.000-05:00I love sardines on crackers, particularly with tabasco sauce.......my wife thinks it's disgusting! My Dad turned me on to that at twelve years of age. He kept a huge liquor cabinet that my friends and I raided for our first drink at age 11. We mixed scotch, vodka, sherry, and some Mad Dog 20/20 Moon Miller stole from his older sister I think. We spent the afternoon retching on the dirt floor hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-905275052003-03-11T11:09:00.000-05:002003-03-11T11:09:25.623-05:00Linda and I celebrate our 28th anniversary today. What a trip....it doesnt seem like that long. Life together is good.hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-904980452003-03-10T22:30:00.000-05:002003-03-11T06:23:58.000-05:00Oh yeah, Today was interesting to say the least.... My philosophy on getting things done hinges on something I think I remember J.R. Wimber saying and Steve Sjogren echoing (I dropped your name Steve, heh): “It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to ask permission”. Given my compulsive nature I usually take things like that to extremes. Case in point, when it comes to renovating old hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-904721432003-03-10T14:24:00.000-05:002003-03-10T14:36:29.000-05:00Todays blog is actually part of a conversation I am having with others from the allelon community but seems relevant to what is going on with our community right now. What kind of community are we? Even now as I sit here trying to think about it it still seems like a process. Eight years ago I was a happy, fully integrated and contributing member of a Vineyard church in suburban Augusta. Ihansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-903726072003-03-08T17:35:00.000-05:002003-03-08T17:53:23.000-05:00On my desk sits Buddy Christ, the action figure from the movie Dogma. My friend Adam Heare gave it to me. Now if I could only get Jay and Silent Bob.....my life would be complete. Funny.......I remember watching Clerks at about 4 a.m. with a small group of newly made friends shortly after Orwells opened in 94 (do you remember that, Anthony). After that we sat around and talked until 7a.m. hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-903714472003-03-08T17:03:00.000-05:002003-03-08T17:15:27.000-05:00Back to the story of how Orwells Cafe came to be...... After I left the Capri Cinema downtown Saturday night (the story picks up from my earlier blog) I resolved to try and lease the empty building two doors down on 8th street that had once been a beauty salon in the early seventies. I was broke but I had already made the decision that I was going to try and lease the place. The management hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-903257762003-03-07T17:43:00.000-05:002003-03-08T15:10:20.000-05:00Found an article on writer Dorothy Sayers in Context, Martin Marty's commentary on religion and culture. The article originally comes from The Cresset. Dorothy Sayers wrote a series of Christian radio plays in the early 1940's for The Sunday Evening Childrens Hour, which was sponsored by the BBC. It seems that some folks had a problem with the earthy language she used in her plays, including hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-902448922003-03-06T11:33:00.000-05:002003-03-06T11:36:34.000-05:00This article on blogging as a spiritual discipline was posted by Tim Bednar on the e-church website and mirrors some of my own conclusions about this new endeavor called blogging that is fast becoming a daily ritual for me. hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-901951642003-03-05T16:16:00.000-05:002003-03-07T16:33:40.000-05:00Saw in the news where some guy from New Jersey bought enough plastic sheeting and duct tape to cover his entire two story house. Gee I did'nt know Al Qaeda was planning a chemical attack against New Jersey! Somehow that seems redundant. Anyway......... I said I would eventually get around to the story of how Orwells came to be so here goes: All of this would never have come to pass had I not hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-901271372003-03-04T14:28:00.000-05:002003-03-04T15:33:17.000-05:00Will sent me this link for all the beer drinkers out there! I can see clearly now........hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-898619182003-02-27T16:53:00.000-05:002003-02-28T17:55:32.000-05:00If you ever wondered why U2s' Bono is so keen on reducing and outright forgiving third world debt just check out this article from Noam Chomsky!hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-897829602003-02-26T12:30:00.000-05:002003-02-26T12:30:55.263-05:00Todays blog is a replay of a conversation via e-mail between myself and Jeff Miller, a hip young church planter toiling away in the wastelands of suburbia. In his e-mail he is responding to a comment I made earlier about vapid church people that migrate from church to church and, in the finest tradition of that overused word 'postmodernism', he reveals a burly intellect and some extraordinarilyhansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-897284602003-02-25T14:51:00.000-05:002003-02-25T15:01:05.000-05:00My good friend Will Sansbury sent me a video of Johnny Cash doing a Nine Inch Nails cover.Talk about the reality of the human condition. It blew me away.hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-897145862003-02-25T10:22:00.000-05:002003-02-25T15:01:00.000-05:00Went with a couple of buddies and watched Eminem's flick, 8 mile. The rap battles near the end of the movie affected me most because thats where his battle to gain respect came fully into play. It's strange but Eminem's struggle reminds me of the 6th century warrior monk Columcille who left Ireland to travel through Scotland, Britain and Saxonland. He lived among the picts and went head to head hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-896505942003-02-24T11:38:00.000-05:002003-02-24T14:29:54.000-05:00This falls in the getting senile category. Friday, Linda went to Atlanta on a business trip and was gone for about fouteen hours. I attempted to call her on her cell from my cell and kept getting busy signals. This went on for the entire day and evening and with each busy signal my frustration level was rising accordingly. After many male rants about women and phones to all the guys at our Fridayhansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-895872962003-02-23T01:41:00.000-05:002003-02-23T01:58:15.000-05:00ReadHarry Crews novel, A Feast of Snakes today. It reminds me of all the things I hated about moving to South Georgia to live with my Dad after living in Florida with my Mom for the first eleven years of life. The racism, the social caste system and the aloofness to newcomers made being sent to military school a welcome relief, although at the time it seemed more like outright rejection. It was hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-895059992003-02-21T12:18:00.000-05:002003-02-21T12:18:19.596-05:00There is a restaurant named Louie J,s here that makes great omelettes. The sausage, tomato, and cheddar cheese version is my own personal addiction. hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-894442332003-02-20T12:57:00.000-05:002003-02-20T12:57:23.166-05:00I am still reflecting on the dove and crow incident (reference previous entry) and our initial response when the surreal invades the real. Mostly mine is humor. I have been reading Neil Gaimans' book, American Gods. Chapter one is prefaced by a comment from 'The American Joe Millers Jest Book', "The boundaries of our country, sir? Why sir, on the north we are bounded by the Aurora Borealis, on hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-893431212003-02-18T20:58:00.000-05:002003-02-27T10:26:08.000-05:00If you like weird stuff check out this incident that happened a few months ago when we were trying to decide whether or not to open up a new coffee shop on the main street in downtown Augusta. But first a little background. As mentioned in my first post I opened up a coffee shop about eight years ago in downtown Augusta when Augusta was pretty much deserted at night. The mainstays at that time hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-891583772003-02-15T16:57:00.000-05:002003-02-18T20:59:16.000-05:00This comment on 'Christian' culture comes from Walter Kirns article, What Would Jesus Do, in the Sept. 2002 issue of GQ magazine; after having spent seven days immersing himself in the aforementioned culture. "Ark culture is mall christianity. It's been malled. It's the upshot of some dumb decision that to compete with them - to compete with 'NSync and Friends and Stephen king and Matt and hansonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050249.post-891128302003-02-14T16:43:00.000-05:002003-02-14T17:36:21.000-05:00This is my first post so here goes.... My name is Hanson Carter, I am 47 years old and married 28 of those years to my partner Linda (a woman of extraordinary patience). We have three children, Chris, Michael,and Angella (Chris died 4 years ago at the age of 24 from Lupus, but continues to have a profound influence on our circle). I am a confirmed urbanite of eight years, having centered my homehansonnoreply@blogger.com0