Although I was led there via Marko’s post which referenced the map above, it’s a pretty intereting site in itself. If you have an interest in anything from history and politics to the Tombs of the Stars or the Kaballah Tree of Life, StrangeMaps is a great place to waste a little bit [...]
"To obtain a person’s true opinion of you, make him mad!" -Oliver Wendell Holmes It connected with a Father Stephen quote Scott M sent me a week or so ago. It read "I believe that the love of our enemies is uttely essential to the love of God. If we do not love our [...]
Electile Dysfunction: (n). the inability to become excited about any of the choices for president put forth by either party in the 2008 election year. sigh. Just call me a flagpole sitta.
Today, I am 24 days out from the Austin Marathon extravaganza. My training has begun to taper back (so I don’t get injured at the last minute), which is good because I’m beginning to get bored (ususally a precursor to burnout). Yesterday I ran in the frigid drizzle to prove my commitment….sort of. I [...]
"Man can live without air for a few minutes, without water for about two weeks, without food for about two months–and without a new thought for years on end." -Kent Ruth Thoughts? (preferably new ones…)
In continuing my evolving thoughts in Philippians 3, it’s brought me to this thought: There is something mysterious and other-worldy about conversion, whether you experience it as a moment-in-time experience or a series-of-steps-on-a-journey. I grew up hearing the gospel as a child and heard it for years..over and over and over. Until one day…BAM! [...]
"Be kind. Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." –Philo of Alexandria, Jewish Philosopher and interesting guy
If you know me well, you know I get really passionate about a few things. At the height of those things is a ‘moral gospel’. You know, a certain, arbitrary set of rules that determine your degree of holiness. The problem with that kind of gospel is that you always have someone who attains it…and [...]
My heart was heavy this morning, knowing of the struggle of a dear friend. The detals are too much to post here. Almost immediately after, I checked my feeds and found someting by a friend of mine at Worship Trench. In order to get out of the analytical box we fall into when studying scripture, [...]
One of the greatest movies of the last few years has to be Memento.It’s one of those stop-what-you’re-doing-and-rent-it-tonite flicks that don’t come around very often. Guy Pierce plays Leonard, a man on a search to find his wife’s rapist/killer. The glitch is that while trying to rescue his wife during the ‘incident’, he suffered a [...]