coming clean

FF on ACL.

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:58:22 -0500

FF on ACL.

Next One! Next One! Next One!

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:04:54 -0500

Next One! Next One! Next One!

Quote of the Day

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:50:39 -0500

“Pornography is a universal temptation precisely because it does exactly what the satanic powers wish to do. It lashes out at the Trinitarian nature of reality, a loving communion of persons, replacing it with a masturbatory Unitarianism.”

Religion Hata Gettin' Hated On! (Appropriately)

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:11:51 -0500

Religion Hata Gettin' Hated On! (Appropriately)

Cuddle Your Kids

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:58:14 -0500

Cuddle Your Kids

Quote of the Day

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:50:17 -0500

“He decided he wanted to meet Stott, and a friend helped connect them. Simon called the theologian and offered to take him out for dinner. He said Stott told him he didn’t go out much anymore and instead invited the musician to his flat for tea and biscuits.

“‘I’d say we spent two or three hours there,’ Simon recalled. ‘I talked about everything that was on my mind about things that seemed illogical, and he talked about why he had come to his conclusions.’

“Simon was very impressed by Stott. ‘I liked him immensely,’ he told me. ‘I left there feeling that I had a greater understanding of where belief comes from when it doesn’t have an agenda.’

“‘It didn’t change my way of thinking,’ he added, ‘but what I liked about it was that we were able to talk and have a dialogue.’”

I Need a Gun

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:23:39 -0500

I Need a Gun

Moms (and Dads) Your Kids are Not an Inconvenience

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:48:59 -0500

Moms (and Dads) Your Kids are Not an Inconvenience:

“I am SO thankful that God does not see me, His child, as an inconvenience. Instead, while I was still a sinner He sent His Son, Jesus, to die for me (Romans 5:8). When I have come to Him in need, I have never felt Him roll His eyes at me or turn away because I called at an inconvenient time. He delights in my need of Him, and He encourages me to come to Him … with anything and at ANY time. He does not demand that I wait until morning, or that I grow up first, or that I get a grip. He offers Himself, and delights as we come to Him. What an amazing Heavenly Father we have who has given us the example of how to love, nurture and give, even when it is difficult. My prayer is that my little girl will always know and feel that her parents prayed for her and find her valuable — even when she is 3 years old.”

Dude?

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:54:43 -0500

Dude?

Quote of the Day

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:43:12 -0500

“Today, polls show Americans are much more inclined to put up a Christmas tree and decorations or go to a party than to attend religious services, even though they tend to see Christmas as a religious holiday.

“Perhaps it’s a bit puritanical to insist that believers dump their cherished family traditions to march off to church on Christmas morning. But it’s also self-defeating to complain about keeping Christmas holy when churches close on Dec. 25.

When he preached at Christmas, Saint Augustine acknowledged the associations between the still-dominant pagan rites and Christianity’s Feast of the Nativity. But the bishop of Hippo said that such associations should spur the faithful to deeper observance, not to downplaying the holiday altogether or tailoring it to the prevailing culture: ‘So, brothers and sisters, let us keep this day as a festival—not, like the unbelievers, because of the sun up there in the sky, but because of the One who made that sun.’”

M83: “Midnight City”

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:52:58 -0500

M83: “Midnight City”

Dude

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:26:01 -0500

Dude

The Christian Life is not a Thomas Kinkade Painting.

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:32:30 -0500

The Christian Life is not a Thomas Kinkade Painting.

Football is Better than Football

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:01:20 -0500

Football is Better than Football

Hymns from Ninevah: "Endurance at Christmas Time"

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:07:29 -0500

I know nearly nothing about these guys except that (1) they’re from Denmark and (2) their new Christmas/Advent album is already one of my favorites ever. (A Sufjan killer? I think maybe!) Having already puked today from reading the endless unnecessary superlatives in the Pitchfork Top 50 albums reviews, I won’t say anymore about it except get it.

Pitchfork Top 50 | Bon Iver Not Surprisingly Best of Year

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:42:18 -0500

Pitchfork Top 50 | Bon Iver Not Surprisingly Best of Year

My Fantasy Football Team Pic.

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:44:00 -0500

My Fantasy Football Team Pic.

Merry Christmas!

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:59:27 -0500

Merry Christmas!

Christopher Hitchens is Dead.

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:11:18 -0500

Christopher Hitchens is Dead.

Thankful for a Home

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:53:00 -0500

My daughter is just old enough now that she often offers up her own prayers at dinner and at bedtime. You’d be amazed what you learn about prayer from a three-year-old. The first time she prayed for many things. But one thing stuck out. ”God, thank you for our house.” Our house? I never thank God for that. Never. And yet my house is absolutely a gift from God.