It is much simpler to criticize than it is to create. All criticism takes is a quick wit and a sharp tongue. It requires little investment of the depths of yourself, and you can all the while maintain a safe and respectable distance from committing yourself to anything.
Creation, on the other hand, is a profoundly self-giving […]
Archive for April, 2007
I’ve had this thought bumping around in my head for a long time now. The church in nearly all of its North American flavors has a debilitating love affair with pragmatism. This love affair needs to be named, shamed, and ended.
We see this when we judge a pastor’s faithfulness by the size of his or her […]
I’m reading Truth Is Stranger Than It Used to Be: Biblical Faith in a Postmodern Age by J. Richard Middleton & Brian Walsh right now and I’m really enjoying it. It’s a ten year old book, but I’m finding that it speaks well into much of the current fascination with all things “postmodern.” I’m only […]
Well, the long hard slogging of school is done for another term. Now it’s time to really get going on some summer work. I’m going to be attempting to develop the web design end of Omada Design Group much more this summer, so if you or anyone you know needs a website design or a […]
We Christians have a largely dysfunctional relationship with the Bible. We make it into a God or we ignore it, and we’re constantly twisting it to say what we’ve already decided is right. And I am most definitely guilty of all of these. I think that we grossly underestimate how powerful this book is if […]
Anyone who is not living an incredibly secluded life (if you are, can I join you there?) has probably heard about the tragedy at Virginia Tech. where a gunman killed some 33 people, including himself. I’ve struggled whether to weigh in on this or not, but I felt that I would do so because I […]
