Starting a few months back, I developed a mild obsession with getting a vertical form-factor laptop bag. My current bag that came with my laptop was starting to fall apart and was painfully un-hip. My first stop was MEC while still in Winnipeg over Christmas, but the bag that they had didn’t fit my laptop. Bollocks.
Then […]
Archive for January, 2008
I shall wade into the waters that I (gently) stirred in Wide and Narrow. If you didn’t read it — or don’t want to now — what I basically said is that Christians tend to narrow their orthodoxy and widen their orthopraxy, which I think is quite the opposite to how things should be. I refrained from expanding on […]
After a long hiatus, Signs of the Apocalypse returns.
Jaclyn and I are in Moncton for a 3 day training session through her job, for which we’ve received a rental car. Today as we were driving around, we discovered that this was one of those new cars that shrieks at you the moment you start thinking about […]
You might notice a bit of a new look around here. After I went live with the new Soma Design site, Jaclyn took a look at mattwiebe.com and thought that it looked a wee mite shabby in comparison. Inspiration struck her, perspiration struck me, and behold, a hot new look.
One of the things I’m proudest of […]
This will be just a quick, undeveloped thought that I’ll plant and see what grows out of it.
I think that there are much wider biblical allowances for what may be considered orthodox theologically than most Christians believe. I also think that there are much narrower biblical allowances for Christian orthopraxy than we usually advertise.
The irony is that […]
The little things are the big things. The things that are woven into the fabric of our everyday life are so tightly that we don’t even notice that they’re there. Take water for instance. You need it. Based on the fact that you’re made up of 50-75% water.
I remember when bottled water was looked upon as […]
