The Summer Reading Binge

So there is this absolutely brilliant blog that I stumbled upon a couple of months ago called Stuff White People Like. It is entirely devoted to, well, stuff that white people happen to like. Entries include religions their parents don’t belong to, Wrigley Field, Public Radio, threatening to move to Canada, New Balance [...]

Lucky and Hopeful

Yesterday was an interesting day.
It was a day that really began at 9:00 the evening before. Christie and I showed up at the church to be extras in a scene they were shooting that night for the movie. Upon our arrival we found out that they were (shock of all shocks), running behind schedule [...]

One of my favorite Olympic stories

I remember when I was in fifth grade I went to “Outdoor Ed.” with my classmates. I had a fun week, and got back on Friday afternoon exhausted. When I arrived home, my mom told me that I’d been selected to play in an all-star game for my basketball league the following day. [...]

Theistic Evolution dude on Colbert, and Sunday night’s media

Francis Collins, the guy whose book I talked about quite a bit on Sunday night at Seven24 was on the Colbert Report a while ago talking about his book. Since I’m fond of posting Colbert interviews, I thought I’d post it here. I think my favorite part of the interview is the part where Colbert [...]

A Maximum Wage?

As I mentioned a few blogs ago, I recently read Brian McLaren’s book Everything Must Change for my Emerging Church class at Fuller. Overall I thought the book was terrific.  McLaren raises a number of important questions that the church, to our shame, has long neglected, and he offers some creative answers.
Towards the end of [...]

Reflections on an interesting evening…

So I’m realizing “Monday Afternoon Quarterback” (with the day changed to reflect when I’m actually getting around to writing) is both a) not a very exciting title for these sorts of posts, and b) not an entirely accurate title given that the goal of these reflective posts isn’t so much to second guess myself as [...]

Rebellious Gratitude

I’m almost finished with Brian McLaren’s book Everything Must Change (which is good because my review of the book is due tomorrow). It’s really been terrific thus far, and he has raised a number of very important questions. In typical “McLarenian” fashion he has managed to stir the pot quite a bit, exposing [...]

The Make Out Pastor

I’m not gonna lie, tonight was kind of a weird night.
Christie and I are unwinding with a quick episode of Friends, so I thought while that was on I’d take a minute to write about the evening.
For those of you outside of Oceanside, my church, New Song Community Church, is in the process of making [...]

Books, Books, and more Books

So I’m back from a wonderful vacation (which my wife has been writing about in her blog), and I’m trying to get re-adjusted to normal life.  Between the making of the movie and the various special events in my own personal life it has been quite a tumultuous summer thus far (though in a good [...]