it seems appropriate—just a couple days after the mondo-post concerning caedmon’s call, derek webb and my awkward neo-calvinist conversation—that i would post this information. as i’ve said before, i’ve got a few different kinds of blog readers, so the following responses will flow from this post: “great! i’m excited to hear the new stuff!” “great. that means the caedmon’s call [...]

despite a couple bunch of interruptions, many of you have kept up with my track-by-track analysis of derek webb’s latest (and arguably greatest) album, stockholm syndrome. while this post serves as yet another break in the series, I thought a recent conversation was a fitting interruption. whereas I usually refrain from and frown upon broad prefaces and disclaimers on blogs, [...]

rob bell just kicked off a new speaking tour called drops like stars (which i hope to attend some time in the fall). the tour and the corresponding book deal with something that, to me particularly, is a fascinating topic: the inherent link between suffering and creating. without too much detail, it simply looks amazing. i stumbled across the blog [...]

the internet was sucked into a swirling vortex of crazy today: john piper blogged. oh, john piper didn’t just blog about any ol’ thing. he blogged about tornadoes. wait, not just any tornado. piper blogged about the gay tornado. you know, the one god sent to wipe out the 2009 assembly of the evangelical lutheran church yesterday in minneapolis. duh. [...]

a couple days ago, christen and i celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary. it’s hard to talk about anniversaries without instantly sounding cliché or resorting to your standard fare summations of your love for your spouse. so, trying to avoid that as much as possible, i can truly say that i love christen much more now than i did 6 years [...]

i would have titled this rant 3, but this isn’t a rant at all (unlike rant 1 and rant 2…). this is a thoughtful, seemingly prayerful olive branch extended by brian mclaren. many people won’t be able to get past the first two words of my title—brian mclaren (which he basically acknowledges)—but for those who choose to read it, i [...]

last year, thanks to our friends at noisetrade, i discovered this strange little band out of nashville called umbrella tree and their album the church and the hospital. that strange little band with that strange little album ended up landing on my best of 2008 list (and their song, tooth on the floor made my rest of the best songs [...]