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...
My friends and I were discussing this a while back, and realizing that all too often, we push risk aside because we are afraid of failure. I know that I often become stymied because I am more afraid of failure than I am attracted to...