Archive for June, 2008
On “real questions”
Monday, June 30th, 2008Rev. Lamblove, in his continuing series on “How to Preach Real, Relevant, Relational and Revolutionary Sermons,” encourages preachers to ask questions that they don’t already know the answers to. Frankly I think this is fine advice for any conversation about faith. Maybe that’s because I personally have far more questions than answers.
A real [...]
Where the rubber meets the road
Monday, June 30th, 2008This is what a struggle does: it pares you down to the essentials. Milton of Don’t Eat Alone writes movingly about his ongoing daily decisions to keep going:
Therefore, I have to decide what it means for my life that I live with depression. I have to decide whether my faith or my illness [...]
James Dobson has NEVER spoken for me.
Monday, June 30th, 2008And that ain’t about to change anytime soon. “Dragging biblical understanding through the gutter” indeed.
Via Chuck Currie.
Satchel Hussein Pooch?
Sunday, June 29th, 2008Via tbogg, a NYTimes article about people assuming “Hussein” as a middle name in support of Barack Hussein Obama, or perhaps in protest against those who find inimical significance therein.
More meta: On blogging
Saturday, June 28th, 2008Matt Davis writes:
Blogging isn’t for everyone. You need tenacity, and to a certain extent, the ability to shrug off rejection and haters, in order to succeed. Just putting up a blog in the first place is pretty tough, knowing it’s likely to be vilified. So you don’t always take risks, you play it safe, and [...]
Thanks, excentricbahhumbug!
Saturday, June 28th, 2008What a treat to come back and read all those posts — feel free to check in and share further musings when the spirit moves you!
Two weeks away from almost all media (not to mention a fairly aggressive driving schedule through some rather hot areas of the country) has done a number on my brain. [...]
How much of a sin, is claiming to know gods will? (guest post)
Friday, June 27th, 2008I live in CA, and the editorial pages are filled with comments about the same sex marriage court decision and campaigns to change the CA constitution to overturn this. A striking number make claims, biblical and personal, that the notion of certain forms of marriage are God ordained. Like crusades, jihads, millions of petty cruelties [...]
Containerism, essence of humanity? (guest post)
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008Is the essence of humans, the ability to deal with containers,… boxes, bottles, wallets,bags, cargo containers, … categories, meta data….? Which came first, the physical invention of controlled spaces to hold things or the mental bins?
I recently was visiting friends with a small child, still in the stage of clear, learning fascination, with putting [...]
Laser cutters, everyone should have one. (guest post)
Friday, June 20th, 2008Had a chance to play with a copier sized, paper, wood, some plastics laser cutter today. Just the (tens of thousands $) toy I always wanted. Oh to have had access in my preteen scratch model building days….
Link for the manufacturer of the model I was using: http://www.epiloglaser.com/
By hearsay, these are the hot [...]
