Geez Magazine
When I was seventeen or eighteen, Relevant Magazine was just starting up their website to launch their magazine. I was subscribed to it right away and devoured its pages. Everything I read was ‘relevant’ and…
Links for December 26, 2006
A large list of theological websites, theologian website and heretical websites, helpful if your interested or doing research. ———————– Gay nativity scene ———————– Dave Blondel posts of a video he did for Christmas last year,…
Miroslav Volf at Christmas
Pernell quoted a timely message from Miroslav Volf that I think fits with the post below “When Christians take the Christmas narrative seriously, the practice of gift-exchange within a closed circle of family and friends…
Why I Hate Christmas (and its not because it derived from a pagan holiday)
Partly its because I’m a rebel and I hate anything that everyone likes or finds meaningful. I like to go against the grain and be difficult and annoying. However, I think there is a lot…
Holiday Update
I’ve been really bad at posting on here in the last month or so because I’ve been switching all 30 or so of our websites over to our new server, I’ve gone to Florida for…
Links for December 18, 2006
Pernell wrote an open letter to theStory about his thoughts, positive and negative of his experience here. ———————– NT Wright at Calvin College. (ht) ———————– A funny video of the song “Let the bodies hit…
Watermark in Tampa
This morning I went with Rachel to check out a church down here in Florida. I figured since we were way down south that we would search the internet for some sort of church that…
To Florida
Well I’m heading down South for the fourth time this year. I can’t complain. Rachel and I are going to visit my grandparents near Tampa. I will hopefully be able to post pics and a…
Helping to be Helped
An often used cliché that we use when telling stories is that when we go to help someone really they ended up helping us. There are two reasons why I never did understand this form…
Links for December 8, 2006
Ron has a very informative post on the Sarnia – Fort McMurray relationship with oil. He works for Suncor and they fly him there every once in a while to do some work. ———————– Pernell…
John Stewart on Crossfire
I like John Stewart. I watched this about 3 months ago, then Dave e-mailed it to me again today, I had to link to it. They asked John Stewart what politician gives him the most…
Photoshoot in Sarnia #2
Barry and I went out again this week to snap some more pictures. It wasn’t the only thing I snapped though, I broke two tripods and the third one was broken already. I’ll just blame…
How Do We Change This Horrible System
Sometimes I feel sick to my stomach when I hear stories about how little it takes to help someone, and yet they remain unhelped. Rob Bell tells a story about this women who got a…
Links for Dec 01, 2006
The picture above is one that I took in my friend’s backyard in August 2004. See all the pics here. His name is Scotty Maidman, and tomorrow I’m going to see him race at the…
Getting Ahead
I realized again last week how much our language really signifies how bad of a state our culture is in. This time I noticed it in the words “getting ahead.” When we are trying to…
Links for November 26, 2006
There was little interest in Sarnia poverty tour only a few local politicians show up for awareness event. I didn’t know about this was available at all, I’m wondering if it was open to the…
Links for November 21, 2006
(via Bob) Remember Kramer from Seinfield? Well he had a little explosion on a stand-up act he was doing and made quite some brutal racist comments. Here is the video of the comments (*Warning, don’t…
A Few Updates
There was some sort of problem with my server and I lost my last post, which is annoying as always, and I’m feeling too lazy to post it right now, maybe in a few hours….
Links for November 20, 2006
Why my friend Andrew is not a Buddhist. I’ve basically came to the same conclusion as he has, but also, I find Buddhism is all about eliminating desire instead of enhancing/fulfilling it which seems to…
The Simple Kingdom
Last night I couldn’t sleep and having to leave at 5am for the Free Methodist Class that I’m sitting in right now it only seemed normal with my sleep patterns to be up at 2am…