On the way in to work I was listening to the NPR Podcast Pop Culture and one segment was interviewing two women who wrote the children’s book version of Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. At one point one of the women was telling a story about a little girl who had gone home from school and [...]
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The Supremacy of Passion
Thu October 4th, 2007 at 9:36 amGod, Media | 2 Comments
D&D and Church
Wed October 3rd, 2007 at 4:39 pmGod, RPG
Stubbled Upon this interesting story about what happen when one middle schooler asked another to play D&D and his mother got worried and went to her pastor.
Read ->Why is Satan Always Angry?
Wed September 26th, 2007 at 9:13 amGod
I’m rereading Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Shadow and there was a little exchange between the nun character Sister Carlotta and another command that had an interesting bit of theology in it.
“Do you know why Satan is so angry all the time? Because whenever he works a particularly clever bit of mischief, God uses it to [...]
Cities of Refuge For The Slayer
Fri August 31st, 2007 at 1:40 pmGod
I’m not a huge fan of the King James Version of the bible written in 1611, and one of the reasons is that the language has changed so much. I was killing time at church and they have one of those big coffee table bibles with the cool pictures in it. It was open to [...]
Read ->Bono on Jesus, Grace and Karma
Tue August 28th, 2007 at 4:11 pmGod
Only crazy people could think Bono isn’t Christian. In the passage quoted in this blog post Bono talks about Grace vs. Karma in a powerful, powerful way. He also incorporates Lewis’ trilema into his witness.
It is crazy for Christians to judge him because his “notoriously bad language, liberal politics, and rock star antics”. Or justify [...]
Parenting
Tue August 28th, 2007 at 1:49 pmGod, Life
This weekend I learned something as a father. It was, as most things, a combination of inputs and actions coming together in a perfect storm sufficient for me to get it. I’m coming to understand this is the way God often talks to me.
On Friday I had a strange role reversal with my youngest son [...]
Been A Long Time
Tue August 14th, 2007 at 2:39 pmGod, Life | 1 Comment
Came by the blog today and realized its been a very long time since I posted last. Lots of stuff has been happening that have conspired to keep me away.
I did a trash the dress shoot a couple of weeks ago. I’ll post images once I get the processing done.
My grandfather came home from [...]
Anger And Contempt In My Life
Thu July 19th, 2007 at 10:47 amGod, Life
M. Scott Peck started his best selling book The Road Less Traveled, with these words “Life is difficult.”
Rick Warren started his book, The Purpose Driven Life, with the words “It’s not about you.”
Three Things Going On
This summer has been difficult, but has also been a growing experience. Three big things have been going on [...]