the Word on the Street

It’s not every day I’m going to do an advertisemenst for Zondervan, but Rob Lacey, a theatre preformer who has created a Bible paraphrase that is able to be acted out. I got a DVD at the convention and it has some clips on it – very cool.
It’s like the message, or the NCV, but a [...]

Post-freaking-modernism

I’m at the National Youth Worker’s Convention (a YS product!) and I can’t get through a single theory session without hearing about postmodernism (henceforth referred to as poshizzle). The problem I have is that most of the mentions are talking about the fad that comes after seeker-sensitive (who’s not a seeker?).
I use the term in [...]

Listen, for the life of your soul is at stake!

Isaiah 55:3, The Living Bible
I somehow got a pre-release copy of a Leonard Sweet book. I copied it to word and printed it, I don’t know how I got it – it seems to be a rought draft of an entire book! It is a book on leadership that examines Ernest Shackleton on his expeditions [...]

Bruce Mau Design

Here’s a neat-o thing I’ve been pondering over – It’s from a Toronto design company who are seemingly very progressive. It’s called and Incomplete Manifesto for Growth.
I’d print it here, but that would make two superflously long posts and that doesn’t jibe (mad props to TJ) for me.
In other news…

E.M. Blaiklock, The Archaeology of the New Testament

This is a really fab. book – I didn’t underline anything because I didn’t see it as a life-changing book – it was full, however, of background and contextual information. It had an especially great examination of Pontius Pilate’s political career. The book is out of print, but available at used book stores, one of [...]