Countertop Theology

LJ, Heather and I have got four fish. They live on our kitchen counter (in an aquarium, duh) and we take care of them. We’re even members of PetCo customer program now.
The reality is that we are revisiting what a Christian’s interaction with creation says about God. How we treat living things has to say [...]

The postmodern novel will have no climax

It’s just true. Look around and see what is happening in popular media and the way it is being reacted to. In the past, people wanted a story to take them somewhere uncomfortable, and then resolve it. Today, and in the future, people want to go somewhere and that’s it.
What else is there?

Children, HIDE YOUR BLOGS!

Best compliment I ever got was from my current Senior Pastor.
After interviewing (auditioning?) for the youth ministry position (part?) out here in Oregon he called and told my wife that we “are….very…real.”
We thought that was great, because that is the image that we really want to project. Moreover, it is who we really want to [...]

Post Industrial Christianity

Today I pray that I will be able to outlive industrial, market-driven Christianity. Pastors have attempted to become professionals and have given away what makes them distinct in the process. I digress…
>>>The United Church of Canada’s pastors are seeking to join the Canadian Auto Workers Union. For protection from their congregations.
>>>Pastors read business management books [...]

2005 – the year of laugh my guts out

Drop your food. Pick up your mouse.
Two very funny lines today!
1. Over at B & E….
In which real world do you have to be home at 9? In the I’m on crack world?

2. And over at liquidthinnking, via someone else,

Dear Jon,Remember: Whenever we say “Christmas,” Christ always comes first. And whenever we say “X-mas,” [...]