After teaching Wednesday nights, I’m usually in either a good mood or a really bad disappointed mood. This week was the latter. Whatever the mood, it usually is reflected in the following day also. For basically 24 hours I was sunk into a self-loathing state, all simply from my sense of failure. This teaching engagement [...]

image by Isadore Berg Continuing my series of posts on living simply, I will explore a difficult topic: your children’s toys. It has seemed as if one of the hardest things to simplify in my family’s life has been the quantity & quality of our children’s toys. I have two young girls and they seem [...]

image by Midnight-digital Let me say this simple. Throw your TV away. Just get rid of it. There is one thing the is synonymous with the wealth & prosperity of the West, the TV. It took the crown from radio rather quickly after the hurdle of price was leaped. We are moving into a third [...]

image by flickr user ajrpix This will be the first of a series of posts, based upon simple practices my family has incorporated into our lives to live simply. It is very much in the line of modernity to find a device that we must all buy that will solve all our problems. When this [...]

The summer heat has done much to keep me from blogging this summer. Here are a few excuses from my recent trip westward.

Here is last weekend in review. Instead of writing about what Rob Bell, Peter Rollins, or Shane Hipps talked about, I give you the experience in visual form. I feel compelled to muse in light of Shane about how the image will affect your experience shape the message I am presenting, but I will refrain. [...]

Recently I was able to listen to an interesting conversation between my parents & friends of theirs. The conversation centered on catching up with the current news of their respective churches. You see this was all very normal seeing how they met each other years ago at a local church, my parents having attended there [...]

Something things in life you just can’t let go off. For different reasons, we hold onto things. For this watch and me it boils down to pure will. I am damned if I am going to buy a new watch when  this one still keeps the time just fine. Recently it has gone through some [...]

I have not posted in a while. I fixed my RSS, so if you had tried recently and ended in failure, I apologize & ask you to try again. As for posts, I have a couple of things I would like to post about. The problem is that I haven’t taken the time to think [...]

There are two ways that one can go, either fear & protection or openness & love. Here are examples of each from Christendom. TheResurgence – Churches & Pig Flu Tall Skinny Kiwi – Swine flu and a calm, reasonable, rational Church I haven’t been keeping up with this whole ‘thing’; I kind of quit consuming [...]