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
Are those my feet up in front of me?
2011-09-04 03:19:00 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 produce, create, express, then I am just subsisting. In my mouth out my ass and so on until ... More About: Feet , Front
The Weight of Water
2011-05-17 17:06:00 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 hard to do this,” he says, “to stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out.” I recommend listening to Part ... More About: Weight , Water
Apologetics
2011-03-29 22:43:00 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 apologizing up front for the things people have done in his name, rather than by careful reasoning and arguments ... More About: Faith , Apologetics
Is Morality the Goal?
2010-12-10 18:19:00 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 Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to say, ‘Oh, ... More About: God , Faith , Morality , Goal
Childhood Is Not a Race
2010-12-08 20:37:00 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 a four-year-old should know and it has stopped me in my tracks. I can get very impatient with my kids, often ... More About: Childhood , Race
Discovering the God Imagination Online Class
2010-12-08 15:26:00 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 relating to God to be intriguing and often helpful. I can’t recommend the book, having not read it yet, but with ... More About: Online , Class
Let?s Get Practical
2010-12-03 21:25:00 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 prayed daily for such and such? What if everyone in the world ... More About: Faith
Chunks of Brain
2010-10-29 22:29:00 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 want connection. And reality. Something meaningful to someone else, or several someone elses. This week I thought ... More About: God , Faith , Brain
Fun and Games
2010-09-30 22:08:00 So we went to Disney World for a week, which was awesome, with my parents, who are awesome, who have been married 35 years, which is super-awesome, and stopping both ways on the way to stay with my brother-in-law and his family, who are also…what is the word I am looking for…ah yes. Awesome. Four days of ... More About: Games , Fun and Games
The Song That?s Stuck In My Head #6
2010-09-07 22:37:00 “After the Storm” Mumford and Sons These guys have fast become my favorite band lately. Their breed of Irish folk-rock is like brewing hope and angst in a slow-burning cauldron deep in my belly. No other band I can think of makes me want to connect with God and smash something at the same time. ... More About: Faith , Song , Head
2010: The Year of No Blogging
2010-08-29 19:55:00 Seriously: only 11 posts all year? What a lame-o blog you are reading. A person starts a blog because they have something to write about. When I started this blog I had something to write about. Actually, here’s something I never told you. When I started this blog what I wanted to write about was ... More About: Faith , Blogging
The Song That?s Stuck In My Head #5
2010-07-23 20:27:00 “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” Eva Cassidy This has been stuck in my head because it’s been on repeat play on my 6-year-old’s mp3 player when she falls asleep at night, so consistently that we can tell when she falls asleep by when the song finally changes. Before then it had been a while since I ... More About: Song , Head
10 Things I Hate About Me, or, The 21-Step Program, in Which Is Examined th
2010-07-16 17:52:00 I’ve had several conversations this week about a sermon I didn’t hear, or rather a topic addressed in the sermon, specifically a challenge the speaker had taken on for himself based on a principle which in truth is not a new idea to me, nor to modern mankind in general, as, according to the vast ... More About: Faith , Hate , Things , Program
Tea Party Jesus
2010-07-02 20:39:00 Here’s a great site putting the words of mainstream Christian figures into the mouth of Jesus . Pretty funny at first and then oh so very wrong pretty quickly after that. Politicians, pundits, pastors and more, each photo links to the article quoting the original speaker. Gives a bit of perspective to the things people say ... More About: Church , Party , Faith
Two Kinds of People
2010-06-29 16:53:00 I heard once there are two kinds of people in the world: people who think there are two kinds of people in the world, and people who don’t. Lately I’ve been wondering if there’s really only one kind of people in the world: the kind that sees two kinds of people in the world. People ... More About: Faith
Preaching to the Choir
2010-06-06 02:55:00 I started blogging through the book of Matthew this year, reading and ruminating on who exactly this Jesus person is who showed up out of nowhere on the planet and conducted a whirlwind ministry of healing, spiritual teaching, controversy and subversion, then died publicly and miserably, coming alive again a few days later and thus ... More About: Church , Preaching
First Impressions
2010-05-28 16:43:00 After many months deep in thought and deliberation I’ve decided this blog needs a makeover. Actually there was very little thought and deliberation involved at all; it was instead a collection of observations over the last year or so that the topics and ruminations I’ve typically explored on this blog over the last two and ... More About: God , Faith , First Impressions
Your Own Box of Crap
2010-03-21 18:55:00 Came across this work of art today, a public toilet made entirely of one-way mirrors installed at a construction site in Britain. Photos are below. It was originally unveiled as an artistic response to the reluctance of people at art exhibits to leave the room for fear of missing a key entrance or comment. The ... More About: Crap
Brad Wise, Michael Stipe & RISD
2010-02-08 18:45:00 Just read this post, and I liked it a lot. Quite a bit of what I’m wrestling with in there. More About: Michael , Brad
Ob La Di
2010-01-24 06:23:00 Hey this blog is still here, even without new posts for months. It’s like a Sopranos episode I watched recently, with Carmela in Paris. How do we know the people in Paris existed before we got there? And that they’ll continue to exist after we leave? (My apologies of course to my Parisian reader[s].) Which ...
Testing
2009-11-18 00:06:00 I got a Droid this weekend, courtesy of my generous employer. In conservative terms it’s probably the coolest Christmas present I’ve received since I was young enough that every Christmas present was the coolest Christmas present ever. That’s more a testament to the boyish wonder this thing evokes than to the quality of the presents ... More About: Testing
Get Mad
2009-11-06 15:33:00 Advice to myself for the day, from Alec Baldwin’s speech in Glengarry Glen Ross, his only lines in what is arguably his best performance: “Get mad, you sons of bitches, get mad.” Don’t fold, don’t complain, don’t get all sorry for yourself. Get pissed off and get something done.
Love It or Leave It
2009-11-03 13:27:00 I’m reexamining my life recently. Something I have had a lot of practice in over the years. I can diagnose and prescribe appropriate plans of actions like it’s nobody’s business, hyper self-aware and ubercritical as I am. What I am less good at is doing the things I determine I should do to improve my ... More About: Love , Leave , Love it
It?s Not About Me
2009-09-28 23:07:00 I read Francis Chan’s book Crazy Love the better part of a year ago, and I’m going back through it now with our small group. It’s a short book and a quick read, but I think I’ll always be measuring my life by some of the standards it touches on. Reading it alone the first ... More About: God , Faith
NakedPastor
2009-09-01 19:35:00 I’ve enjoyed this guy’s cartoons before, but I just found his T-shirt design gallery. Some pretty comical stuff in there for the casual Christian, like these gems.
WANTED: New Black Bag
2009-08-28 20:34:00 Complaining has been a problem for me recently. Or rather I’ve had no problem complaining, it’s the toxic fallout of stewing, criticizing, looking for worst-case scenarios and playing out arguments in my head that has plagued me. I discovered this quote from Richard Rohr today that resonates with me: “I will offer you a simple litmus ... More About: Faith , Black
The Song That?s Stuck in My Head #4
2009-08-22 01:04:00 “How He Loves” David Crowder* Band David Crowder and his pals dare you not to smile when you see the cover of their forthcoming album, Church Music, a jab at the glitzy charm of religious television. “How He Loves”, the first single off the record is at once utterly top-of-your-lungs singable and awkwardly clunky. The verses are ... More About: Faith , Song , Head
Things You Can Only Get Away With When You?re Four
2009-08-05 16:13:00 So I’m at the Reds game Sunday with my family and telling my four year old we’re rooting for the guys in the red shirts. So the guy in the black shirt steps up to bat and Zeke yells at the top of his lungs, “Hey blacks, get out!” I resist the urge to remind ... More About: Things
?I Don?t Buy It?
2009-08-04 20:08:00 A New York Times article by a woman married 20 years to hear her husband say one day, “I don’t love you anymore.” Her completely unexpected response here. Worth the full read. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/fashion /02love.html?_r=3&pagewanted=all More About: Faith
If This Was Jesus
More articles from this author:2009-07-24 02:30:00 There are many folks out there who are dropping associations with Christianity as much as possible and using other labels or identifiers, like “follower of Jesus ”. Lately I’ve been one of them. It’s a simple and surface-level way to dissociate myself from the evils and cultural crap associated with Christianity as a religion. Certain people ... 1, 2, 3 |
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