Growing up near Denver, we had two sports religions in our house - the Broncos and the Buffs. I vaguely remember the old Colorado Rockies NHL team (who later became the NJ Devils) and my dad took me to some DU hockey games growing up, but that was about it. My most passionate [...]

Finished Through a Screen Darkly by Jeffrey Overstreet last night. It was easily one of the better film and theology books I have read over the last several years (and I’ve read a lot of them). It ranks up there with Robert Johnson’s Reel Spirituality in the variety of subjects he covers. [...]

A litlte channeling of Henrix going on on Tuesday’s ep of Colbert…
Star Spangled Banner with a little extra flair
(once again, wordpress.com strikes again - can’t embed from comedycentral.com either - I also have no control over the quality of the ad before the clip)

Well, since finishing up my thesis (woot!), I have begun to fall in love again with the printed word. While I read over 150 books and other forms of “literature” as sources for my thesis, it is very different to read for a thesis than it is to read for “choice.” So, in the several [...]

Three things in my golf life that are likely only in my wildest dreams…
1. A hole in one (on any course)
2. Playing a round at Augusta National (sexist policies and all)
3. A hole in one at Augusta

Great shot today by Ian Poulter on the 16th
I’ve always loved the 16th. I know [...]

Little did I know that when I saw Walken as the evil Zorin in that awful mid-80s Bond film, A View to a Kill, that he was as funny as he is. He hosted SNL for the 7th time this past weekend and here are two clips for my friend Kathie who missed the [...]

One of the beauties of the Internet is that we can be a part of faith communities from afar. We can participate in worship from a distance away. Obviously, it is not the same as being a part of the community in person, but we can get a taste. A few days [...]

I found myself watching Red Dawn a few nights ago. It was spurred on from a Risk (facebook version) game I was playing with some of my buddies. I remember seeing it when it initially came out in 1984 (I guess they didn’t care it was PG-13 when I bought my ticket since I [...]

Well, its amazing how things come together timing-wise. I submitted my final version of my Doctor of Ministry thesis on Monday morning. The focus of my project was on how seminaries need to integrate multimedia into their preaching curriculum. Many (if not most) seminaries (at least PCUSA ones) are still training their [...]

I’ve seen other “memes” running around out there and found this one to be quite interesting, esp considering my current profession. Bruce Reyes-Chow started this one up with his initial post on the topic. (Bruce incidentally is a potential candidate for PCUSA moderator for the next 2 years). Anyway, three ground rules [...]