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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 [...]

This is just too good to not post…Credit to Gary Brookins of the Richmond Times-Dispatch for this piece of brilliant editorial cartooning…Click image for full-size

Was going through my itunes library the other night in search of a 3 minute song to use with a presentation and came across the song Seasons of Love from the musical Rent. Not only did the song fit with the presentation I was working on, but I cannot get the words out of [...]

My last “big” thing of my sabbatical was a trip to Minneapolis yesterday to do a bunch of errands to places that we don’t have here in town (such as Trader Joe’s, Penzeys, and the MOA) and then, most importantly, to worship at Solomon’s Porch. “The Porch”, as it was called during the service last [...]

Ok - I’m reading the posts today on streetprophets.com and I come across a link to this headline
Dinosaurs, Bible Meet in Pensacola
Seems there is a new theme park in Pensacola, FL run by a creationist group where they teach that Dinosaurs roamed the earth with Adam and Eve. Regardless of how one feels about [...]

I saw Snakes on a Plane this afternoon and this movie may be a candidate for a future Theology @ The Movies
(SPOILERS AHEAD)
What struck me most was the depth of theological and spiritual themes that were throughout the film. From one point where a character enacts Genesis and has the opportunity to crush a snakes [...]

Last night, I received an email from my cousin asking me how I ended up here in the midwest. Ironically enough, that message came 7 years to the day after I started in my calling at this congregation. While I sent off a very brief message back, the question kept coming back to [...]

As I am sure many others are as well, I pray tonight for peace in our world. I see the violence in the Middle East seeming to continue to spiral out of control and I pray for God’s peace to come and to reign not just in the areas of Israel, Lebanon, Iraq, and [...]