As soon as I pushed on the front door I knew something had changed. Gone was the familiar creak and the rubbing on the floor that required you to make a little extra effort half-way through the opening. I could only come to the uncomfortable conclusion that someone had repaired it. It was uncomfortable because […]
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Literary Prowess
Once, on a paper in college, I attempted to use a metaphor, another time a word-picture. Neither undertaking was particularly successful in much the same way that the Donner Party wasn’t particularly successful.
People are the Problem
Was just going over the Clark County, WA initiatives with a friend. In looking for information online for some of the more confusing measures I ran across the “Progressive Voter’s Guide.” I like using liberal guides when I vote because they’re usually pretty straightforward about what they like or don’t like and why. Once I […]
Inspired by an Article on the Pope & Christianity by a Man Who Understood Neither.
What ever happened to Christians’ expectation of intellectual or Scriptural rigor in Christian writing? So often I read articles online, by respected men, that consist of a whole lot of opinion and a whole lot of pop Christianity but very little actual accurate theology to back up the point of the article. The fact that […]
Snozzberries
We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams;— World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. –Arthur O’Shaughnessy
Ex nihilo nihil fit
I think I’ve been subconsciously developing a sociological theory over the past few years which is ironic because I hated sociology. The historical myths that we allow culture to tell us have a horribly negative effect on how we perceive events and how we live our daily lives. The two I’ve nailed down thus far […]
No other gods
I drove by a church today. Its reader board read Neighborhood Worship 10:30 AM Sundays “Yep.” I thought “That pretty much sums up what I believe is wrong with the American Church. ‘neighborhood worship’.”