Tons of legal bootleg music

"...the Live Music Archive...is a community committed to providing the highest quality live concerts in a lossless, downloadable format. The Internet Archive has teamed up with etree.org to preserve and archive as many live concerts as possible for current and future generations to enjoy. All music in this Collection is from trade-friendly artists and is strictly noncommercial, both for access here and for any further distribution. Artists' commercial releases are off-limits."

Incredible selection of live bootleg, all legal. The "lossless" format is best quality-wise, but songs are 25-30 mb each, making one concert as much as a gig. Try "Browse bands with MP3/Ogg versions" to download shorter files.

To convert the huge lossless files requires a software program to decode them. They arrive in .shn format. Information about how to do all that is in the web site.

My recommendation: anything by Martin Sexton to start with.
http://www.archive.org/audio/etree.php

The modern church - thumbs up or down?

Have problems with the modern church? Want to hear from others with the same feelings?
http://www.kbproweb.com/gel/reform/lovehate.shtml

Spiritual renewal and social justice

"Sojourners is a Christian ministry whose mission is to proclaim and practice the biblical call to integrate spiritual renewal and social justice." Check out this proposal about "Confessing Christ in a World of Violence."
http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=sojomail.display&issue=041020#3

Daily devotional

Oswald Chambers may be old-fashioned, but his daily devotionals pack a whallop. Not for the faint of heart. If you want to be challenged and you're serious about shaping up, this will do it. I try to read "Ozzie" every day.

http://www.gospelcom.net/rbc/utmost/