how’s that for a title of a post?? there are two responses to questions that are absolutely unhelpful: yes and no. these answers do very little to engage a thoughtful dialogue and ongoing conversation. they’re highly sought out, though, given a culture—highly prevalent within the church—of closed-ended questions. closed-ended questions are questions that elicit a single word reponse: either yes [...]

it’s no mystery to my regular blog readers: i’m anti-war. under any circumstances. let me offer a singular reason for this proclamation, from which many other reasons flow. i follow jesus and i believe the things he said. that could be the end. but, there’s more. even in the event that the world is at peace in regards to physically [...]

well, i don’t think this post/video will be nearly as provocative as the title suggests. although, it is certainly the content of said post/video. the michael gungor band—who, quite honestly, i know very little about—has released a video for a song called white man. in it, they declare, in fact, that god isn’t a white man. neither is he an [...]

wow, it’s been over a week—9 days to be exact—since i’ve graced the ol’ blog with a new post. so, i’d like to offer myself a hearty ‘welcome back.’ alright, now that i’ve had a public internal conversation with myself, let’s move on… i thought i would give you an idea of what’s been going on with my life which [...]

mute math = amazing. so it is, as well, with their videos. last year, typical was one of the most innovative and entertaining videos of 2008 and they’ve followed that up with another equally (almost…) innovative video for their current single, spotlight. it’s clever, funny and looks like a lot of fun to make. you can check out spotlight and [...]

certainly, there are moments of stress here at my place of employment, but in the midst of that, we try to have fun every now and then (people like myself probably have fun a little too much…). one of the ways we offer a little de-stressing for our employees is via a committee called tweak (i honestly have no idea [...]

“You aren’t making Christianity cool, you’re making rock music worse.” -hank hill, king of the hill (speaking about christian rock music)