hello friends, Fat Ryan here. yes, this is the same ryan that’s been bringing you this stunning blog content since the year of our lord 2007. yes, this is the same ryan that you see every day or that you interact with on twitter every day or that you think longingly of each day. but i’m now referring to that [...]

here’s another post from the eikon blog. in this case, john wrote a bit of a roundup of ways to help with the haiti relief efforts. it’s often difficult to know what to do, in spite of the fact that we want to do something. so hopefully this serves a guide to giving and responding. ———————————————— By now each of [...]

ah yes…do you smell that? take a big whiff. it’s the smell of love in the air. it’s not just any little love, but big love.

that’s right, ladies and gentlemen, hbo’s hit drama (and my favorite show of all-time) big love is back in its fourth season. last night, the henricksons returned for what’s shaping up to be, possibly, the most dramatic and anxiety-ridden season to date.

here’s a little something i wrote over on the eikon blog. as we’re still in the initial phase of connecting and sharing our values prior to our official start day (which is coming very, very soon…), a recent tweet prompted me to further flesh out our perspective on the nature of orthodoxy and shared beliefs. so, enjoy. ———————————————— last night [...]

a couple days ago, i picked up the current issue of the arkansas times, which is their annual natives guide to pulaski county. the cover story was a series of “big ideas” written by various people of (quasi-) prominence in little rock and surrounding areas. the list included some ideas i love (bringing a nice independent movie theater downtown, churches [...]

last year, when derek webb released his album, stockholm syndrome, several “tiers” were sold with various combinations of physical copies, digital copies, t-shirts, dvds, stickers and other assorted items. in several of the upper tiers, one of the intriguing inclusions was voting and, ultimately, free downloads of a promised 2010 project called democracy, vol. 1. this would be a monthly [...]

yesterday on his blog, tony jones made a case for clergy stepping back in their roles as state-sanctioned marriage officiants. you can certainly read his thoughts about it here (and he goes in many other thoughtful directions that i’m not necessarily pursuing in this post), but i thought i would add a few thoughts to the subject. whereas i don’t [...]