i blogged about eugene cho’s website a couple days ago and upon a return visit, i came across some more thoughts on the need for equality for women in church leadership (and beyond). one of his most visited blog posts is a satirical list of the 10 reasons why men should not be ordained. obviously this is a joke, but [...]

tonight, lucy went and hung out with aunt ann while christen and i took olive out to dinner. thanks to the ol’ iphone and the great app, camerabag (itunes store link), we got this photo:

so, I’m currently sitting in my doctor’s office waiting room in the saturday “acute illness” clinic. (that’s code word for all the lazy bastards who didn’t take the initiative to schedule an appointment during the week like other normal people…) a few observations/thoughts: 1. ok…I lied…this has nothing to do with the doctor’s office…but how about those razorbacks!! (this is [...]

a few weeks ago, i posted this discussion about mark driscoll’s proclamation that stay-at-home dads were on a short track to hell (with video). i’m not surprised to find that there’s been others in the blogosphere (and beyond) who didn’t really receive his commentary with open arms (and rightfully so). honestly, after re-watching the video and re-listening to his thoughts, [...]

for quite some time, i’ve wanted to do a series of posts that discuss the core values—the guiding theologies—that guide and shape my life. i prefer to use the words guiding theologies, as opposed to simply core values, because theologies describe the nature of god, of whom we were created to be like. values, often, simply suggest things that we [...]

i don’t twitter. if you would have asked me a month ago about twitter, i would have told you how retarded it is…now, though, i’m fighting the urge to jump on board. (don’t…do….it…ryan…) i’ve been casually following a couple people here lately on twitter and i actually came across a very striking and beautiful tweet through tony jones’s blog (and you [...]

hey everybody, make sure you fly (ha ha…get it, “fly”…because you see, it’s babybyrds.com…you know, like a bird…how they fly…ha ha…..) on over to babybyrds.com! christen has finally gotten a chance to do some updates and talk about the whole olive experience from her point-of-view. it’s about time she updated it…i mean, what’s she doing with all her time? feeding a [...]