Videos For Your Soul.com - This is actually a project by a friend of mine (Randall Curtis - The Holy Geek. I'm pretty sure you're going to run into him again later in this series). It began as a spiritual practice during Lent. He gathered together some of the best and most inspiring videos on YouTube. Then he offered up a comment or a question with each one and opened it up to discussion. The framework for the progression is the Christian practice of Lent but the videos are not especially Christian or even religious in nature. He uses them to open a wider discussion of who we are and what we are doing in our lives. Randall even notes in his description of the site that his goal is beyond the walls of the church:
I hope that some of these videos and reflections might even turn in discussions at Sunday school classes, at coffee shops and at bars.
You can come at this website from a variety of angles. Certainly you can approach it from a faith based direction. Or you can simply appreciate the effort to sift through the enormous number of videos out there (48 HOURS of new video is loaded per minute on YouTube) to find ones that will make you laugh, make you think, make you cry or make you want to change the world. Or maybe a little of both.
It's a faith based site that isn't preachy or condemnatory or designed to make you feel bad. It's intent is to lift you up. Nice to find out here on the Wild Wild Web.
I know there's a whole new series coming for Lent 2014 (Lent begins this year on March 5. I wanted to give you time to enjoy what's already there before the new ones start flowing)
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