As John writes in his new Salon blog, FarrFeed,

"In just one week I've heard from more people who've read my work than I have since God knows when. The visibility is paramount here . . ."

John's several sites promote and sell his writing and photography, while all the while giving plenty of value away (links in left column at blog URL above).

I'm rooting for John. This approach to living/working that he's creating sounds very appealing to me!

You know, the best payback for the one-time hassle of setting up a PayPal account is that it makes firing off $10- and $20 thank-yous easy. (I just clicked John's PayPal link.) I'm trying to get in the habit of expressing my appreciation this way; it's the kind of world I want to live in.
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Does an understanding of "Christian counterculture" provide an escape from oversimplified conservative/liberal labels? Reading The Soul of Politics is reminding me that trying to transpose sociopolitical reality onto a conservative/liberal spectrum isn't really feasible and leads to internal storminess; in me, a rage against conservatism. (Like shrinking the bitdepth of a beautiful full-color landscape to 256 colors. Or shades of gray. And scaling to 640x480.)

(Transposition is a C.S. Lewis essay in which he uses the word to mean mapping the larger onto the smaller, as in transposing a full symphony for two pianos, or telling a time-bound story that attempts to depict eternity.)
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