Edward Holm:
CLASS OF 1979
Eastern Technical High SchoolClass of 1979
Baltimore, MD
University of BaltimoreClass of 1972
Baltimore, MD
Overlea High SchoolClass of 1965
Baltimore, MD
Edward's Story
Edward is from Newport, North Carolina. He is married with Becky Thomas Holm. His schools include Overlea High School. He later attended University of Baltimore (English/History). He works(ed) at Craven Community College.
Edward's interests include john armstrong, Earth, Wind & Fire, Danica Patrick. Music he likes includes Carrie Newcomer, Dúlamán, Handel. Books he likes include Robert Alter's Art of Biblical Narrative, Marcus Borg, Raymond Carver. Movies he likes include Full Metal Jacket, The Catholicism Project, Unforgiven. TV shows he likes include AXS TV Concerts, The Rachel Maddow Show, Morning Joe.
One of Edward's favorite quotes is:"Nothing quite focuses one's attention as the gallows.
Mixing the church and the state is like mixing ice cream and cow manure. It doesn't do much to the manure, but it sure messes up the ice cream. (Tony Compollo)
In order to be burned out you must have at one time been on fire.
If you find that God hates the same people you do- you are not talkng to God".
More about Edward:"So I am a radical in the truest sense of the word: an ordinary radical who wants to get at the root of what it means to love, and to get at the root of what has made such a mess of our world. And many of my heroes were âradicals,â trying to get back to the roots of Christianity. In the past, being labeled radical was nice because it made me feel sassy, a...Expand for more
nd I never had to worry about folks taking me too seriously. It was a word you used to write someone off, usually folks who exaggerated the truth that the world was neglecting. But something strange has happened. Either Iâm no longer radical, or there are a lot of ordinary radicals out there.
Claiborne, Shane; Jim Wallis (2008-09-02). The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical (Kindle Locations 147-152). Zondervan. Kindle Edition.
"I just walk along and talk and sing, see better days and do better things" (Bob Dylan)
"I'll let you be in my dream if I can be in yours. i said that." (Bob Dylan)
I am trying to be a follower of Jesus but sometimes lose the path. I love reading and thinking about God but I am not crazy about a lot of what passes for God talk in this culture. I want a life of transformation that better enables me to love God and my neighbor and sometimes myself.
The true rule of poverty consists in giving up those things which enchain the spirit, divide its interests, and deflect it on its road to God--whether these things be riches, habits, religious observances, friends, interests, distastes, or desires--not in mere outward destitution for its own sake. It is attitude, not act, that matters; self-denudation would be unnecessary were it not for our inveterate tendency to attribute false value to things the moment they become our own".
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