I’ve said this before. I bothered when people say they don’t ‘like’ someone. Typically its because of bad experiences or a bad first impression. Sometime its because they have just never gotten along or they don’t appreciate their personality. Here is something I’ve noticed. **note** i don’t enjoy using the term ‘like’ here as if […]

In honour of my recent accomplishment of finally finishing my essay on Sex and Violence in the Hebrew Bible I have changed the image at the top the site. However, I am only at 30 of 55 pages left of essay writing. So still lots ahead of me. Some things to check out. N.T. Wright

“It is quite astounding that although Protestant and Catholic churches have raised – and spent – close to one trillion dollars on domestic ministry during the past two decades, there has been no measurable increase in one of the expressed purposes of the church: to lead people to Christ and have them commit their lives

I’m going to re-post this because my site went down. A bunch of things, like comments and stuff got messed up, its been quite a pain to get it all working, but I think i have it. I got this post from Ron who typed this all out of McLaren’s book Finding Faith. Do you

I am reading a book for my Intro to Religion class and I’m enjoying it a lot. It’s called Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. It’s the story of a man on a journey of finding himself and reaching Nirvana. It’s a Buddhist story, and a phenominal one at that. It’s odd at times and has some

I love this post

I apologize for the downtimes of my site lately, if anyone has even noticed. My server that I go through must be having some serious problems, its been quite bad over the past few weeks. I even lost all the stuff that I’ve done on it in the past week or so. I’m in the

I’m working on my Sex and Violence in the Hebrew Bible paper, and I came across something that messed me up. I’m reading Show Them No Mercy, 4 View on God and Canaanite Genocide and its set up good. Four different scholars write about their views on the genocide and violence in the Hebrew Bible

I was talking to my friend Allie Pilate tonight and we were talking about the good ol’ days back at Crave (old youth group). She was a newer Christian at the time, so she saw things a lot differently (a lot more clearer) than I did. She was tainted by 15 years of the church

I haven’t really looked for an internet connection yet to posts these so I might just end up posting them all at once, and then changing the date on the to make them look like I posted them when I wrote them. I can do that kind of stuff because its my website. Today was

I’m North of Toronto right now where the snow covers the ground by a foot more than I like; so that’s about a foot of snow. I’m on a retreat with FRWY church from Hamilton. My girlfriend Rachel goes to FRWY and I’m planning on interning there this summer. I thought I would journal through

I’m leaving in a few hours with FRWY to go on a retreat. It should be a lot of fun! Thought I’d write something before I go. I’m still working on my Sex and Violence paper, and I’m having some trouble. I realized after doing some more reading how hard it is to be honest

Click here to read paper. I’m in the midst of writing a big paper for my Sex and Violence in the Hebrew Bible class. I’m approaching it from a Christian standpoint and trying to prove that Jesus redeems and directly answers to the violence in the Hebrew Bible [Old Testement]. I am really discovering some

I published a bunch of the Florida pictures. I think we took over 600 pics, so I just put up a bunch of them. They pics are there to make you jealous. Click here

Right now I’m watching the Colbert Report, he separated from the Daily Show as a sidekick to start his own show because he was funny all by himself and didn’t need Jon Stewart anymore. I walked in on an interview half way through in which Tony Campolo is his guest. There are a few things

An interesting post by someone who was not raised in the church and what he thinks about evagelism. i do not know what it means to be an “evangelical, post-protestant, liberal, conservative, charismatic, fundamentalist, calvinist, anabaptist, anglican, methodist, catholic” because i have never been any of them [well, i did serve in the methodist church

This was a good post. In a way, the more we love God and the more we love our neighbor the less we will need the disciplines, in so far as what the disciplines give us becomes second nature and more and more a matter of our character and less and less a matter of

Tonight was a night of learning. I’m at my grandparents in Florida right now and am having such a great time. I was informed earlier about tonight that I was invited to a surprise 50th anniversary party for my grandparents. So getting into the car to a dinner that my grandparents thought they were going

Rachel (yes the same one that was yelling at me for blogging on our vacation) has posted on her blog pics and a fun update of our trip do far. We’re having a blast, and I’m on my way to the beach. Hope its not too cold for you all wherever you are.

I’m in Florida now. It’s beautiful. Rachel and I got to come here for a week and relax at my grandparents house. We spent almost 9 hours traveling yesterday and our luggage got lost somewhere along the way. It’s supposed to show up within the next few hours, so I’ll look forward to seeing that