a hundred visions and revisionsa hundred visions and revisionsA life of faith worked out in the real world. Though we moved in 2004, Cincinnati is still a new city to us in many ways - one of the most significant being our continuing search for meaningful Christian community. I created this blog as a way to exp Articles
Endless Productivity
2008-05-05 20:27:00 So this project I’m on at work is up to 700 gigs or so of media, 175 individual videos and counting, and they’ve just booked me another month and a half in addition to the month I’ve already been on it. In total I’ve had a week and two days or so since I started ... More About: Film , Productivity , Endless
Long Line of Leavers
2008-05-03 20:34:00 I was thinking today of the pattern in my life of leaving things and people behind. Sometimes it’s a painful process, sometimes a natural one; sometimes it’s both. It seems a normal thing for people to move on, to grow out of something, to go a different way from someone. And, taken in itself, leaving ... More About: Long , Line
Kickstart
2008-04-30 21:10:00 Amber and I have been spending quite a bit of time with some new friends recently, and the more we get to know them and get known by them the more full up my heart feels. It’s a wonderful thing, something I haven’t felt in a very long time - at least four years, since ...
Did He Really Just Say That?
2008-04-25 18:57:00 I’ve been working in the video production industry for oh, six or eight years now, depending on what you count as working, and for the first time someone just said to me “Break a Leg” as a well-wishing while walking out of my edit suite. Seriously? Break a leg? That’s what you tell actors, so I ...
A Month?s Assortment of Topics
2008-04-15 02:11:00 1. Facebook. When I first got on Facebook in August it was the coolest thing to happen to the internet since AOL. And I’m talking 1994 not 1998 AOL. I was adding apps, finding friends, updating my status and my personal info, and loving it. At some point however, I found pretty much all my ... More About: Apple , Topics , Month
Daddy Brain
2008-03-18 01:55:00 So one thing I’ve discovered recently is an onset of Daddy Brain . Daddy Brain is in the same family of conditions as Mommy Brain, but manifests itself in quite a different way. Mommy Brain causes the short-term memory to atrophy, shrinking the retention of most information to a few minutes at best, unless it’s information ... More About: Family
White as Snow
2008-03-08 17:29:00 So I’ve got a new job, five days off, and a foot or so of snow outside. I’m sitting with that sticky flushed-cheek sensation of having just come in from shoveling said snow, and feeling a little strange about all this change. We haven’t seen this much snow since we moved, which means our kids ... More About: White , Snow
Quote of the Day
2008-02-14 17:49:00 From The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis’ brilliant satire: Evangelicals have become great believers in their various systems, institutions and programs. It is a mark of the contemporary church that its illusions of external prosperity have almost completely blinded it to its poverty of actual spiritual power. More About: Quote Of The Day , Quote
Stop This Train
2008-02-11 21:48:00 A great song by John Mayer, which I’ve been reflecting on quite a bit over the last several months. It goes like this: No, I’m not colorblind I know the world is black and white Try to keep an open mind But I just can’t sleep on this tonight Stop this train I wanna get off And go home again I can’t ... More About: Train
Context is King
2008-02-07 17:13:00 You may have noticed a decided lack of posts lately on the topics I began this blog around - finding community, investing in a church, and following Jesus in general. I’ve been thinking about why that is - why these things haven’t been on my mind much lately - and I’ve come up with this: we’ve been missing our context. As I mentioned briefly in a previous post, neither of us are particularly self-motivated folks, so when we’re without the context of active community and worship experiences that inspire us to pursue our faith within them as well as on our own, we tend to put our energies into whatever else is actually demanding them (did I mention we have three kids under 4?). So having been to church maybe once in four weeks, and being around Christian friends not at all in months (except to watch a certain football game that shall go unnamed), we’ve been missing our context lately. And not to mention a being a little under the weather recently. More About: King , Context
Being Sick Sucks
2008-02-06 02:59:00 And I’m not talking about my cough that won’t let me slouch in my seat, or my 2-year-old’s that tends to trigger his gag reflex, ejecting the contents of his lunch in a ball of slime on his shirt, or any of the other flying nose slugs that have graced our home recently. I’m talking ... More About: Sick , Sucks
An Open Letter to New England Fans
2008-02-04 10:28:00 I was there tonight, wringing my hands on the couch while Tom Brady took one beating after another through three quarters, then pacing and dancing across the back of the living room as he led the drive in the fourth quarter to regain the lead, then stunned and sullen after Plaxico Burress danced through the ... More About: England , Red Sox , Fans , Boston
Clemens Fesses Up!
2008-02-02 03:35:00 That was my dream last night, at least. And that?s probably about as far as it will go with The Rocket when it comes to the allegations regarding his use of performance-enhancing drugs to reboot his career over the last five years. In my dream though a headline such as the one above landed in ... More About: Clemens , Fess
Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lake State
2008-01-29 16:58:00 I just discovered Sufjan Stevens via this album last month, albeit years behind the indie community, which elevated him to super stardom once he announced his ambition to record an album for each of the fifty states three years ago (this one being his first - go Sufjan). Shows you my relationship to the indie ... More About: Great , Michigan , State , Lake
Gravy!
2008-01-25 04:27:00 As in, good gravy! A saying popularized (in my own head at least) by my college roommate Byron. And by good gravy, I mean - what a challenge it’s been to get a post up in the last three weeks! I started what for me is an ambitious 2-part post on my thoughts following reading ... More About: Gravy
Review of the Bourne Trilogy
2008-01-08 20:49:00 Pastor James Harleman of Mars Hill’s Cinemagogue site has posted an intriguing review of The Bourne Ultimatum, with reflections on the Bourne Trilogy here. He examines the trilogy in light of its redemptive aspects and the parallels between Jason Bourne’s character and both the life and significance of Jesus as well as the struggles of fallen ... More About: Film , Review , Matt Damon , Paul Greengrass
Pagan Christianity
2008-01-07 03:25:00 I came across reviews of this book at Darryl Dash’s Blog and Pastor Joe Thorn, both of whom are blogging through it with apparently fairly balanced criticism thus far. I haven’t read it myself (having just heard of it), but from their reviews it seems to be a book that states in a fairly blunt ... More About: Christianity , Pagan
Quote of the Day
2008-01-03 16:24:00 If you are praised, be silent. If you are scolded, be silent. If you incur losses, be silent. If you receive profit, be silent. If you are satiated, be silent. If you are hungry, also be silent. And do not be afraid that there will be no fruit when all dies down; there will be! ... More About: Quote Of The Day , Quote
The Life and Times of a Disenfranchised Christian, volume ii
2007-12-20 02:33:00 Here’s my dilemma. I have a passion for seeing lives changed for the better and people healed and freed to worship God and pursue their passions, thus influencing others. As far as I have ever experienced or heard, this happens most (and arguably best) in the setting of an organized faith community, i.e., a church, ... More About: Christian , Life , Times , Volume , Franc
Boogie!
2007-12-19 16:16:00 No I’m not talking about dancing here. With three small children you may imagine where this one is going. This morning Hannah and Zeke woke up and played upstairs in their bedroom for about 15 minutes together. Then Hannah came sauntering downstairs and climbed into bed with us, while Zeke who usually is right behind ...
What Makes a Good Sermon?
2007-12-18 09:16:00 This was a question posed on a Facebook group that got me thinking. Here are some of my thoughts. I appreciate a specific and targeted topic with all the stories, quotes, and whatnot able to be hung on that. I’ve heard the other type of sermon, where the disparity of the anecdotes, jokes and scriptures leave ... More About: Sermon , Good
Are We Really Just Doing This For Us?
2007-12-18 09:09:00 Amber and I were talking on the way home from church yesterday after hearing an impassioned and challenging sermon on desiring the presence of God in our lives. The text of the sermon was the account in 1 and 2 Samuel of the Ark’s capture by the Philistines, its subsequent and hasty return, and the ... More About: Church
Christian Filmmaking
2007-12-12 01:45:00 The folks at the A-Team blog have posted this on the subtleties and pitfalls of creating beauty. Particularly standing out to me was this quote by Simone Weil: The truth is, for whatever reason, it is very, very difficult to portray goodness as it really is and quite easy to portray evil as we wish it ... More About: Christian , Filmmaking
Perpetual Outrage!
2007-12-10 20:19:00 A former pastor of mine posted this link a while back on the allure of outrage and some thoughts on how to counter it. Provocative and helpful.
Scrooge?s Omniscience
2007-12-06 22:08:00 We were watching the Alvin & the Chipmunks take on A Christmas Carol the other night and I was struck this time through this familiar tale by the way in which Scrooge /Alvin becomes aware of the need of the people around him - through a supernatural revelation that he couldn’t have come upon by himself. ...
The Life and Times of a Disenfranchised Christian, volume i
2007-12-05 01:31:00 Amber and I have been in the Cincinnati area for three years and some months now and we’ve yet to land in a church that we both feel at home in. Someone I heard once spoke of the different denominations and movements and flavors of churches as analogous to the tribes and clans of the ... More About: Christian , Church , Life , Times , Volume
Your Personalized Cosmetic Surgery Program
2007-12-03 17:29:00 So I know this is my first post and I should probably say a few things about who I am and why I set this blog up in the first place, and perhaps even what I intend to explore here, but I’m in the middle of a project at work right now and I just ... More About: Cosmetic , Cosmetic Surgery , Wal-Mart , Surgery , Program |
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