The Suburban Pastor » Stories http://jeffreygang.com Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:31:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Three Christmas Stories to Ponder http://jeffreygang.com/2011/12/23/three-christmas-stories-to-ponder/ http://jeffreygang.com/2011/12/23/three-christmas-stories-to-ponder/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:05:14 +0000 Jeff Gang http://jeffreygang.com/?p=1609

Garbage City, Cairo, Egypt

Here are three moving Christmas stories to ponder about justice, hope, and peace:

1. A Prisoner’s Christmas by Yuliya Tymosjenko
Yuliya Tymoshenko, twice Prime Minister of Ukraine, and leader of Ukraine’s political opposition, is currently imprisoned in Lukyanivska Prison, Kyiv. She reflects here on the meaning of Christmas as one wrongly imprisoned for her political resistance. 

2. Christmas Amidst the Rubbish by Rich Lowry
National Review Editor, Rich Lowry, tells the story of Coptic Christians in Egypt struggling for survival in Cairo’s “Garbage City.” Lowry reflects on how Christmas is about seeing the world from below.

3. Christmas Eve, 1914 – It Started in Ypres by Gabriel Gadfly
Poet Gabriel Gadfry’s poem about one of my favorite Christmas stories—a miraculous truce that occurred Christmas day 1914, in the trenches of World War 1.  You can read more about this amazing story on Wikipedia as well.

]]> http://jeffreygang.com/2011/12/23/three-christmas-stories-to-ponder/feed/ 1 Highrise: Out My Window http://jeffreygang.com/2010/11/03/highrise-out-my-window/ http://jeffreygang.com/2010/11/03/highrise-out-my-window/#comments Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:46:57 +0000 Jeff Gang http://jeffreygang.com/?p=1211 Here’s the trailer to an interactive web based documentary called Highrise: Out My Window, which looks at the lives of people living in highrise dwellings around the world. This isn’t a “suburban” theme, but watching the trailer reminds me all the more how isolated suburban life can be. Would there be many stories to tell if this were Subdivision: Out My Window?

]]> http://jeffreygang.com/2010/11/03/highrise-out-my-window/feed/ 0 Parisian Love http://jeffreygang.com/2010/02/08/parisian-love/ http://jeffreygang.com/2010/02/08/parisian-love/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:04:49 +0000 Jeff Gang http://jeffreygang.com/?p=550 Everyone’s got their favorite Super Bowl ads. My favorite is “Parisian Love” from Google. The simplicity of it, the way it weaves a love story together in a matter of seconds, the music, it’s brilliant (plus I admit it made me emotional).

]]> http://jeffreygang.com/2010/02/08/parisian-love/feed/ 0