i don’t remember the sun today did it come, or did it slip past my wandering eyes? it seems as though i looked out a window briefly, [...]
Prologue: On Wednesday of this week (November 23, 2011), I did something stupid. Now, I do lots of stupid things, so this is nothing out of the ordinary. On my way to visit a dear friend up in Ballard I got on the Link Light Rail in the Beacon Hill station. The only problem [...]
I bet I can find 1 person who is tired of seeing status updates of who’s joining the group that can find 1,000,000 people who DO NOT or DO approve of the new health care bill.
I was seriously tempted to make that my status update the other day, but decided against it. I [...]
Today I followed through on what I had been feeling like I wanted to do for a few weeks now. Each day over these few weeks, the readiness to lose my dreadlocks increased. Today I was finally able to put the scissors and clippers to my head. I feel more like myself now, though [...]
Just watched Away We Go, a film starring Jim from the Office (John Krasinski) and Maya Rudolph. Marie and I thought this was an excellent film. It is definitely more my style and less Marie’s, but she was glad we got it and watched it finally. There was a good balance of [...]
Yesterday afternoon as I was driving home from the clericus gathering in Magnolia I caught a piece of a segment on NPR’s Marketplace. Rob Walker, author of Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are (Amazon) told the story of Pabst Blue Ribbon (PBR) beer and its [...]
“If I were called upon to state in a few words the essence of everything I was trying to say both as a novelist and a preacher, it would be something like this: Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less [...]
this week’s reading comes from dorothy c. bass, craig dykstra, and amy plantiga pauw on religious/christian practice and beliefs. bass and dykstra focus their chapter in practicing theology on defining practice as a term and its uniqueness to the religious. plantiga pauw focuses on the gap between beliefs and practices. bass and [...]
when talking about ecclesiology, the conversation at some point or another will turn to ordination. we have now hit that point in one of our texts. daniel migliore talks about the issues surrounding ordination following the typical arguement about the priesthood of all believers. in my experience, this has often been the trajectory that [...]
continuing in my reading of ecclesiology with william placher, but especially, veli-matti karkkainen, i have found something to possibly latch onto. both pannenberg and moltmann propose the ideal of a political ecclesiology (my phrase; not theirs). each do it in their own way, but i found it to be a compelling thought. both men [...]
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