the internets are filled with suggested responses to the connecticut school shootings. some are moving, some are sensible and some are ridiculous. some are moving and some are infuriating. in my humble opinion, rachel held evans has written one that needs to be shared. Those little Advent candles sure have a lot of darkness to…
here’s another great piece from the guy who is quickly becoming my favorite christian thinker, skye jethani. We’ve all gotten used to hearing the drumbeat of revolution; how we are going to change the church, change the culture, change our generation, and change the world. I call it the Daisy Cutter Doctrine: “Change the world…
is anyone besides me tired of all the fiscal cliff conversation? i mean, i know it’s a big deal and i realize that the outcome of this struggle could have huge implications on our economic future. but it is what it is, right? despite all the political posturing and doomsday scenarios, the problem is either…
this morning i read isaiah 53 in the message. i am undone. He was beaten, he was tortured, but he didn’t say a word. Like a lamb taken to be slaughtered and like a sheep being sheared, he took it all in silence. Justice miscarried, and he was led off—and did anyone really know what was happening? He…
today i engaged in a miserable annual ritual–i dressed up as santa for our daycare pictures. i can’t figure out why… 1.) i’m always the one who has to play santa every year (it might be due to the fact that i have white hair, and when i laugh my little round belly shakes like…
this past weekend we celebrated one of the most exciting days on the christian calendar: black friday (what, you thought i was going to say thanksgiving?). retailers report that moving the commencement of black friday to thursday evening was a smashing success. it has become a frenzy that overtakes people…even christians. is it possible we’ve…
i love marshall shelley. shelley is probably best known for being the editor at leadership journal, but he is an elegant writer in his own right. several years ago, i read an article he’d written for christianity today entitled, “two minutes to eternity.” in it, shelley described the heart-wrenching experience of watching his newborn son die. i was shocked by his…
i am really enjoying “deep & wide” by andy stanley. here’s a cool passage… We put people into leadership roles too early, on purpose. We have virtually no leadership training. We have new believers attempting to lead beyond their level of maturity. We think that’s a good thing. At times, it creates problems. We like those kinds of…
i was really looking forward for the election to be over. toward the end, it got to the point where i couldn’t bear to check my twitter feed. but in the past couple of days, the whining has been intolerable. i just have to comment. i have seen some reasoned responses to the election, but…
i voted today in a church building. big, beautiful facility. i lusted. as i was standing in line, i observed my surroundings and it wasn’t very hard to imagine what their meetings are like. from the art on the wall, to the audio setup, to the arrangement of the chairs: one can kinda’ get a…
i ran across a hilariously funny (and conspicuously accurate) article by jessica ravitz on cnn.com entitled in defense of my stupidphone. she makes a couple of salient arguments that i have made (much less elegantly) in the past (here and here if you’re interested). you really need to read the entire piece, but here are a…
i read somewhere that a dog’s sense of smell is something like a million times more sensitive than a human’s. that long dog-nose supposedly has more than 200 million olfactory receptors (as compared to 5 million in a little, substandard human nose). so here’s my question… if a dog’s sense of smell is so great, how come my dog keeps…
i came home from work tonight to find that my trees had been butchered. a little back story… when we moved from our old home, i promised myself that i was done with trees. our last house was surrounded by big, beautiful oak trees. consequently, i fought all summer to get the grass to grow…
my son sent me a video yesterday. the setting was obviously an outdoor shopping area, and it seems that he and my grandchildren (4-year old emma and 1-year old rigley) were waiting for wife/mother. at my son’s suggestion, emma began to dance and the video ensued. it’s kinda’ hard to describe accurately, but emma plunged…
do you guys get as much email spam as i do? the thought of opening my email box in the morning makes my tired. i’ll bet i delete literally a hundred junk emails every morning. why do groupon and norwegian cruise line and ticketmaster send me emails? i don’t remember ever buying anything from them, and i certainly didn’t request that…
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