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Previewing the Oasis
The second trailer for Spielberg’s Ready Player One dropped yesterday, and it’s just what a second trailer needs to be. Definitely more is revealed about the quest of the story. More than that, the trailer points well to the stakes … Continue reading
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Forever Father Christmas
Finished most of my “ship to home” shopping this afternoon. A few years ago I decided it was much easier to mail the chocolate mac-nuts, coffees, and calendars home instead of packing it all in the suitcase and then trudging … Continue reading
Life and the Fallen Kingdom
So the first trailer for Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom dropped today. Strange to think that we’re at this weird place where a new round of sequels (as in sequels to sequels and reboots) is on the horizon. It will be … Continue reading
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Technology and the Season
Yesterday I mentioned reading C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity as one of the “practices” that I’m putting in place for the Advent season. Suggestions for times like these usually involve both adding and removing from the routine to help set … Continue reading
Running the Halls (or: revisiting Mere Christianity)
One of the few practices I’m trying out over the Advent season is the (re)reading of a book. Because the season last just over three weeks, I thought it was a decent amount of time to do a slow reread … Continue reading
Advent and the Clash of Calendars
Today marks the beginning of the Advent season which, in turn, marks the beginning of what is known as the church calendar. That church calendar is not much of a Baptist thing, is something kept and nurtured by more liturgical … Continue reading
Week’s End
I have taken great comfort all week in the fact that this week would have been crazy even if I had stayed on-island over the holiday weekend. The relief I felt as I moved through downtown gathering some stuff for … Continue reading
Against the Objective
I finally sat down to watch the documentary about the life and work of Wendell Berry, Look and See. I’d been putting off for a month, but a five-hour plane ride can inspire you like that. The movie begins with … Continue reading
Faith and Politics
It was a strange thing, reading Smith’s Awaiting the King off and on throughout “Christ the King” Sunday. Smith is taking his argument about the Christian faith’s political implications much farther than I anticipated, which has made it a good … Continue reading
Pivot into the New Year
I’m a few minutes from boarding my flight from Vancouver to Honolulu (Air Canada got me on an earlier flight out of Victoria without any prompting on my part, which has been nice). Many churches today are acknowledging today, the … Continue reading
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