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Ok - just a few quick hit topics that have been floating around for me.
Africa’s U2 Album
Ok - this isn’t really new news, but I finally got the album, In the Name of Love: Africa Celebrates U2.  Its been out for nearly a year now, but I finally got around to ordering it (Amazon mp3 [...]

Ok - this might be (ok likely is) a bit of a reach, but I saw some parallels between the sad demise of Facebook’s Scrabulous app today and the way that we too often try to do church.
A bit of history
- Scrabulous created on Facebook and quickly becomes one of the most popular (and addicting) [...]

Last night, I finished my “annual” reading of A Prayer for Owen Meany.  (BTW, I linked to an older copy of it on Amazon because the newer one has a picture of John Irving on the cover and not the armadillo.  What’s up with that?  Anyway…).  I read the book for the first time my [...]

This comes from my friend Drew and is a short ditty about talking about a verse about what God has been teaching in my life recently. So…without further ado…
The Verse
Psalm 18:2 - “The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my rock in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I got word this afternoon about some major budget reductions from the church I attended in college and who supported me through my ordination process. After many years of great growth and vitality, this church is really struggling with its direction, vision, and participation. I don’t attend there any longer, obviously, since I [...]