I recently read Phyllis Tickle’s newest book The Great Emergence. It is a short quick read, really only evaluating a single premise, but the subject is very enlightening, even in its simplicity. The basic thesis is that that every five hundred years there is some sort re-formation within the church, a giant rummage sale as [...]

Violence Leadership Wild at Heart BraveHearts Men These words have been traveling around at high velocity in the cerebral cortex for the past few weeks. Our men’s Bible study just finished a study through the book Wild at Heart by John Eldridge. If you have spent any time at all in any church in the [...]

A friend sent me an email about Mars Hills Graduate school, a few weeks back. As I was trying to clean out my inbox, I finally got around to looking it over. At the end of the forwarded email, there were a few links to some articles from The Other Journal, which I’m guessing is [...]

So I decided one day that I should probably read that weird first two-thirds of my Bible that no one really talks about in church, except the occasional reference—when they make occasional references to Winston Churchill also, you think it must not be that important. I don’t know if you know this, but there is [...]

I have been reading Postmodern Philosophy & Christian Thought, which is a collection of essays, from an assortment of authors, describing the topic which should be obvious from the title. I haven’t decided how much I like the book yet. I haven’t gotten through the first division which is labeled “Placing Postmodernism.” I’m hoping the [...]

I have been continuing to read The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane. It has been an interesting read, mostly for the digressions; the main story line in fairly weak. But in his defense, I am reminded of a similar work by Thoreau–his strongest points are when he wanders off into a rant about various things, [...]

I have finally finished the work Totality & Infinity by Emmanuel Levinas. It has taken me many months to finish, partly due to the fact that it has been extremely difficult to understand. I definitely would like to further investigate his philosophy, because it seems like there are some gems within it. But for now [...]

Christianity Today‘s July cover story is very compelling from the title, God is Not Dead Yet. Although the article, written by William Lane Craig, after its rather short read–for a cover story–I was left disappointed and frustrated. I was disappointed because for one, it seemed rather short and lacking much depth for a cover story. [...]

A thought about the art community as a (very big) whole has been going round my brain a lot lately. Reviews about a new Rolling Stones movie being heard regularly on different media types keep bringing up the issue of age in regards to the group. Jake posted on his blog recently about artists and [...]

There was an exhibit on campus which got me thinking. Someone has built a house which has been turned inside out for display in the middle of campus; the person responsible for this is doing it as part of her MFA final project thesis requirement (or whatever they call it). I sat outside to each [...]