this will be the first of a 3 part series of posts titled, beware the sound of one hand clapping. the title comes from a line in the 2007 documentary, expelled: no intelligence allowed. what i’d like to do is offer a very quick intro to the series, present a brief review of the movie and then get into the [...]

today there seemed to be several interesting religious stories that caught my attention, so i thought i would do a bit of a roundup here. 1. obama’s interview on muslim tv: i’m sure you’ve probably seen this in the news by now, but if not, obama’s first formal tv interview as president wasn’t with katie couric or brian williams or [...]

just a quick note to offer a recommendation to hop over to the eikon blog. a new post just went up called “stockholm syndrome.” it’s an interesting read about this psychological phenomenon and how it offers an insightful analogy for the current state of the church (and how eikon hopes to be an alternative or reversal of this phenomenon). so, go check [...]

before getting into the matter at hand, let me first state that i enjoy like love cigars. they are one of my great carnal pleasures in life. seriously, one of my favorite activities is sitting down with a good cigar and getting into a good, long theological conversation with friends (yeah, this is what you get when you mix theology nerds [...]

that’ right everybody…today richard dean anderson macgyver turns 59. happy birthday macgyver! it seems like only yesterday, my feathery mullety friend, that you were breaking out of bunkers with floss and gum, blowing up poachers’ planes with a battery and some toenail clippers and saving the world with one brush of your sweet, sweet mississippi mudflaps. on a related note, [...]

this is my attempt to create a new, ongoing series of posts which will be called music you should know. this is a chance for me to talk about some of the music i’ve discovered that may not be that well known, but is definitely worth being made well known. now, i’m not claiming all this music will be obscure, [...]

there are a handful of t.v. shows that i watch regularly and are can’t-miss shows for me. survivor, the office, desperate housewives (yeah, that’s right…i said it…you gotta problem with it…), to name a few. all in all, i really don’t watch an exorbitant amount of t.v. further, i’m not really the type to get invested emotionally into shows or movies. [...]