Been a while since I made a photo post…
Here’s a photo of some friends going for a walk after a birthday party. I actually got the effect I was looking for: a murky, half-remembered memory of walking down a street with friends. A slow motion dream captured in still life.
Archive for April, 2007
Bradley Wright’s Weblog: Scholar’s Prayer
Bradley is a Christian and a sociologist who does a lot of interesting reflections on Christianity from an often humorous sociological viewpoint. Today, he posted this prayer on his blog from Thomas Aquinas, the greatest of all medieval theologians. As a student and quasi-scholar, this is the kind of thing that […]
My friend Karin has embraced her freedom from writing papers by raising some thought provoking points about God-talk on my last post. Specifically, she raised the point that I had used male pronouns in describing God, which can be very problematic in today’s culture. Fair game, and a great point to be raised.
God-talk (that is, […]
N.Americans are especially bad at this one. Bad stuff is always happening “out there” somewhere to “other people,” and any notion of it coming anywhere close to me and where I live is to be met with fear and avoidance at all costs.
Our obsession with security penetrates to many levels. RRSPs, while not necessarily evil, are […]
Article: Pearls Before Breakfast - washingtonpost.com
A journalist at the Washington Post had a great idea: have Joshua Bell, one of the world’s premier violinists (and his $3.5 million Stradivarius violin) play in a busy, downtown subway station during morning rush hour and see if anyone notices. If you want to find out from the article, stop […]
There are many things in following Jesus that defy explanation. The Resurrection of Jesus is one of those very things. I believe in the Resurrection because I have faith in Jesus. I have faith in Jesus because he met me; became real to me and turned my life upside down (or right side up?).
In some strange […]
