So the Beast rises again. Why not? It’s his time. Yet it seems like it’s always his time. The early church believed that Nero was the Antichrist. But after he slit his own throat, they had to reconsider. And thus began a long line of potential candidates: Domitian, Decius, Valerian and Diocletian; after that Martin [...]
Innocence is the first casualty of war, or so they say. The culture wars, however, exact a different toll. And oftentimes what gets lost in the clash of worldviews, is critical to the ongoing battle. I once heard Tim Timmons relate a story about his encounter with “the enemy.” At the time, Timmons was pastoring [...]
My mother’s almost seventy and she’s doing something she’s never done before: she’s reading this book. Actually, it’s much bigger than just reading Tolstoy’s epic saga – it’s reading the classics in general. We discussed the tome several weeks ago and her excitement was infectious. I think she was as invigorated by the story as [...]
I stumbled into a rabbit hole and couldn’t get out. Well, technically it wasn’t a rabbit hole, it was a website. Yesterday evening, I spent ninety minutes reorganizing (mainly deleting) links in my Favorites file. (And my wife thinks my desk is cluttered!) I excavated scads of sites I once scanned. Like Boing Boing, subtitled [...]
She’s the only person I’ll allow to call me Mikey. Mirta Ann Shultz pilots starship Mirathon. It’s one of my weekly rendezvouz along the cyber-highway, and Mir runs a tight, but definitely not uptight, ship. If you’re looking for a wonderful mix of writerly wisdom, pop culture critique, stirring apologetics and good clean fun, Mirathon [...]
Lotsa prayer, sleepless nights, reams of paper and oodles of overtime. That’s what got me here. I rushed home from work yesterday evening — unashamedly unconcerned about the winner of American Idol — fired up the AMD, perched a dinner salad on the edge of my desk and consumed it as I registered for the [...]
I’ve made loads of new friends since I started blogging… even though I’ve never actually met a single one of them. The internet has shaped how we do relationships nowadays. And how we do church. But the question remains: Is this a good thing?Last week, Mary Yerke linked to an interesting article entitled We Know [...]
It’s been said that sheep are so dumb they’ll follow each other, single file, off a cliff. Well, that’s what I expect to happen today as the DaVinci Code opens nationwide. The sound you’ll hear this weekend will not only be the sound of turnstiles ticking like windmills, but dumb sheep bleating their way over [...]
A young boy stood at a train station trying to sell a bag of juicy oranges. He walked around yelling, “Oranges! Juicy oranges for 25 cents!” And he did this for an hour without selling a single orange. Finally, he gave up. He sat down on a bench and, in frustration, grabbed an orange and [...]
So they confi- scated my camera at the P.O.D. concert. Oh well, I got it back after a sweaty, stage-diving, mosh-pitting four hours, and sat down with the Legoman at midnight outside the House of Blues. So which one of us looks more plastic?
