So, Jac and I purchased a book entitled The Irresistable Revolution by Shane Claiborne. It’s a book calling us to an entire life of discipleship to Jesus. I’m just starting to read it, as she got at it first. Many others choose a quote to preface their book and I already love the one that […]
Archive for March, 2006
Are you still there? Jaclyn told me on my last post that the second somebody read the word “doctrine” they’d run away screaming. Madly. Sounds like fun!
Anyways, when our housegroup started meeting in fall, I made noises about wanting to talk about doctrines and how they actually affect life. Stuff like: the cross, the resurrection, the […]
I’m reading “The Plague” by Albert Camus right now, and I despise it. (It’s for a school paper) Suffice it to say that the book is heavily depressing and dreary in style and subject matter. So, it started my mind a-working on some more stimulating matter.
I’ve been hearing and reading a lot of things about the […]
Edit: This applied to my old blog. I’m just leaving it here for the sake of posterity.Â
Hello everyone. I usually ruminate all deep and stuff on here, but I figured that I would take you on a guided tour of the various doodads that reside in my toolbar. I blame Cam!
LibraryThing
The first and best add-on […]
I handed in my notice of resignation at my job today in preparation for my rapidly approaching trip to Europe. No matter how many times I’ve done it, handing in a resignation always makes me excited. New vistas, new possibilities, poverty… Well, the last one’s not that attractive.
As my mind always does, I got […]
I re-stumbled across the following quote by the philosopher Simone Weil. I first encountered it in Pete Fitch’s “Theological Reflections on Suffering” course at SSU.
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvellous, intoxicating.
A great thought for a day and age where […]
