I've been honored to have been asked to write an intro to one of the chapters in Gary Molander's new book, Pursuing Christ. Creating Art. It's an amazing book and it's out now. Pick up a copy at Gary's blog. Also, check out the E-Confessional....
As I was driving around one evening, listening to All Things Considered on NPR, I unexpectedly heard the ubiquitous song, All the Single Ladies come pumping through my speakers. Except here, Feist was substituted for Beyonce...
I remember it like it was yesterday. "What music do you like?", asked Mike Hahn, as he brushed his too long, skater hair from his face. in my mind, he was one of the coolest kids on the block, because he could do HoHos, and...
For as long as I have been a church-going Christian (basically, most of my life), pastors have begun sermons with a joke, an interesting story, or ancedote. If the story isn't amusing, entertaining, or well-told, something crucial is lost, we start checking our watches. Even...
One of life's little pleasures for me, is having a Netflix account. My wonderful wife manages this, and being that we have very similar cinematic tastes, this works out well. Sometimes however, as we parse through the series of red-envelopes, stashed away in our little...
My Morning Jacket Concert - Berkley, CA 09/19/08 It was shaping up to be a wet, drizzly night, as people continued to pour into Berkely's Greek Theatre open-air venue. Not even the wet weather seemed to deter this eclectic crowd of people, determined to have a...
So I have been listening to the latest album from My Morning Jacket (One of my favorite bands of late) on their My Space for a while now, and just downloaded the album from iTunes. It's such a good album. It continues on with some...
I have been struck recently, by the seeming convergence of some interesting developments in the secular culture and Christianity. Often times, such a convergence creates suspicion and skepticism, as we are called as Christians to be in the world, but not of the world. However,...
I was doing some thinking yesterday about which is a more effective way of bringing about change. Is it from within the system or from without? The argument for affecting change from within a given system, is that you have access to “the strings or...
I love the new AT&T (formerly Cingular, formerly AT&T, formerly Cingular…) commercial that features a dialogue between a mother and daughter that I am sure is pretty commonplace in many households. Thankfully, my kids aren't old enough to have their own phones yet so that...