Chunks of Brain
Friday, 4pm. I am lonely at my job. That is not my job’s fault. I want more out of life, that is the problem. What I want out of life is not the big, life-dream, I-was-made-for-this-moment event. I...
View ArticleLet’s Get Practical
I am not big on “what if” as a bottom line. I went to a church once for several years where it seemed every sermon ended with a what-if appeal. “What if we all acted this way? What if every one of us...
View ArticleDiscovering the God Imagination Online Class
Jonathan Brink, author of Discovering the God Imagination, has offered a free copy of his book for helping promote his online class. I’ve followed his blog for a while and found his perspectives on...
View ArticleChildhood Is Not a Race
In the midst of holiday celebrations and preparations, a round of the stomach virus, A studying for her upcoming finals and the day-to-day parenting mayhem this week I stumbled on this article on what...
View ArticleIs Morality the Goal?
I found this quote today, attributed to Gandhi: “The message of Jesus as I understand it, is contained in the Sermon on the Mount unadulterated and taken as a whole. If then I had to face only the...
View ArticleThe Weight of Water
David Foster Wallace delivered a commencement address in 2005 on the challenges of living an intentional thought life, and rising above the default settings of a me-centered life. “It is unimaginably...
View ArticleThe Song That’s Stuck in My Head #7
“Orange Sky” Alexi Murdoch Haunting, enveloping and grounded. I am under an orange sky. Sometimes My mind is too strong to carry on When I am alone When I’ve thrown off the weight of this crazy stone...
View ArticleApologetics
I was struck by this post, called An Open Apology, which Joe also read in church this week. He essentially proposes that the best form of apologetics is apologizing – demonstrating that God is real by...
View ArticleAre those my feet up in front of me?
Life is hectic. Life is nicely paced. I’ve been getting nothing done. I’ve been busy doing everything. I write because I feel like writing, because if I don’t write I don’t exist. That is, if I don’t...
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