I don't know where you may fall on the whole 'Halloween Thing". I have friends who love Jesus who sincerely believe it's solely Satanic and part of the downfall of our family-values bubble world. On the other hand, I have other friends who passionately pursue Jesus and still approach Halloween with all the vigor of [...]
Having flown several times with my guitar, I can appreciate this. It seems the throwers at United Airlines destroyed a $3500 Taylor guitar. Dave Carroll, the owner, spent 9 months trying to get them to cover the loss. When he told them he was going to post a song on youtube, they said "good luck with [...]
Today is a great day. Darkness and light. Yin and yang. Salt and pepper. Regular and decaf. In the words of Morpheus, "fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony". As I’ve mentioned before, today is the birthday of two men who have highly influenced the culture of my life, good or [...]
It’s probably not what you think. A few days ago, retired Christian recording artist Ray Boltz came out of the closet, announcing his homosexuality. (His website, btw, is having a pretty huge clearance sale. Interpret that how you wish.) “This is what it really comes down to,” he says in a CT interview. “If [...]
Since I was a freshmen in high school, I’ve loved Dan Fogelberg. (No, it wasn’t ALL hair metal…). Same Old Lang Syne and The Leader of the Band weren’t just songs on the radio–they were experiences. And years later, they still take me back to that freeze-frame moment they created. In fact, I’m a sap: [...]
It’s the story of a mother who gave birth to a son. And the son who holds the fate of the world in his hands. Her name is Sarah. Not Mary. I gotta admit, there’s only about two shows on television I watch with any commitment, so when the announcement came that my one-of-two favorite [...]
As you know, we were already supposed to change over our collective clocks this past Sunday, but Big Brother decided that we needed an extra couple of weeks of Daylight Savings Time. But it goes further. TreeHugger Labs ran the numbers and has determined that If DST runs half the year for an hour a [...]
Of course, you’ve seen the picture of Pope John Paul II as appeared in the fire. Evidently it’s been crashing some religious websites from all the hits… Perhaps it wasn’t JP after all. Maybe it was actually Johnny Storm… But that’s just me. Either way… ‘Flame on!’
As many of you know, the phoenix symbolizes immortality, resurrection and life after death. According to the Greeks, the bird lives in Arabia, near a cool well. Every morning at dawn, the sun god would stop his chariot to listen to the bird sing a beautiful song while it bathed in the well. Mythology says [...]
Here in Central Texas, we're under a Winter Storm Advisory/Watch. There are about 4 days in the year that we have a snowball's chance of …snowballs. So, we've spent our MLK day cooped up from icy roads, freezing precip, and a pretty stiff north wind. Cool. Tonite, it's supposed to get worse. Tuesday is forcasted [...]