Here are some beautiful reflections on advent from Stanley Hauerwas. I found this video to be very moving, and a wonderful beginning to my own personal preparation for the season of Advent. Enjoy.
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I found this video thanks to a retweet from my former [...]
I like Facebook, for the most part, but I’ll be the first to agree that there are things worth hating about it. Here is a creative presentation of 25 such things.
That video was made by this guy.
I’ve always had a pretty good handle on the “big” sins.
I could probably list a fairly admirable list of things that you’re “supposed” to do that I’ve done and things that you’re not “supposed” to do that I’ve never done. I don’t take much pride in that fact. If anything I’m grateful that God has [...]
For some time now my heart has been heavy because of a well-intentioned but tragically flawed nationwide evangelism project that took place this last week at colleges and universities all over the United States. I first heard about the project several weeks ago, and it was just carried out this Thursday.
What happened was a Christian evangelist wrote a 50-page “introduction” [...]
The following is my column from the Thanksgiving issue of the SEMI that came out today. If you’d like to see a PDF of the entire issue, click here.
Does anyone else find it a little bit ironic that thirty days of unbridled consumerism and commercialism begin the day after a holiday called “Thanksgiving”?
By the time [...]
So I’m in the library right now working on a sermon for my preaching class that is going to come out of 1 Timothy 4, and will center around 4:7, “Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths. Rather train yourself for godliness.” I have been challenged immensely by that verse in the recent past, [...]
I laughed out loud when I first heard this quote on NPR’s Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me! this weekend. It’s from Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sach’s, the wildly successful investment bank that has become the subject of public ire in recent months (years?). In an interview with The London Times Blankfein, whose firm will [...]
Over the weekend CNN.com posted a story about online church services (as a brief aside, I have no idea what kind of church service is being represented in the picture with the article. A graphic like the one here is closer to what I think of when I think “Internet church”). For those who haven’t [...]
War, Peace, and Afghanistan: The Fall 8 SEMI
This week’s issue of the SEMI, Fuller’s student newspaper, deals primarily with the war in Afghanistan. Those of you who know me well know that issues of war and peace are very important to me. Peacemaking is a gospel issue, and it is an issue that should be [...]
What parts of the Bible make you uncomfortable, and why?
My Old Testament Exegesis professor asked us that question in class the other day in the context of a discussion about monotheism in ancient Israel and today. We talked about how, for the most part, the people of Israel weren’t monotheistic, but instead worshiped any number [...]
