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Apocalyptic Lawn Care

The women of Tiger Time Lawn Care offer to mow customers’ lawns dressed in bikinis — a service that attracts more attention to the ladies than the lawns.Bikini-clad mowers offer lawn care with a twist - MSNBC.com
First things first: it’s a travesty that MSNBC would even report this as “news.” This isn’t news, this is pathetic.
This is […]

Idolatry: Creativity

Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief.
All kill their inspiration and sing about their grief
- U2 “The Fly”
At best, we’re never completely original in what we create, even though there’s a certain school of thinking that says you must always do something brand new.
We’re always working with existing material. It would be foolish, for […]

Idolatry: Pragmatism

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 […]

Idolatry: Security

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 […]

Idolatry: Irony

The idolatry series is coming along pretty slowly, as life and school keep getting in the way. However, I figured I’d throw this one out there, because it connects with the two previously discussed topics of idolatry.
Firstly, my intelligent wife pointed out that “idolism,” which I’ve been using in my titles, is the wrong word altogether. […]

Idolism: Technology

Can I actually write about this? I have more questions than answers, especially since I’m afraid that I am more guilty of this than many.
And yet, I can say this with certainty: our Western world (and probably most of the rest of it, but I don’t know it well enough to say much) has been steadily […]



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