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Liturgy as Friendship
I think about worship a lot, even though I rarely if every “lead” in it. Over the last few years, I’ve tried to learn from more liturgical churches, the how and why of standing and sitting, chanting and reading in … Continue reading
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Health and Community
From Wendell Berry’s “Health is Membership”: I believe that health is wholeness . . . I am not “against technology” so much as I am for community. When the choice is between the health of a community and technological innovation, … Continue reading
Don’t Lose the Plot
One more video of from a recent concert by the Killers. Also from Day and Age, here’s “This is Your Life,” one of my favorite tracks from the band.
Dustland Fairytale Revisited
A recent performance of a classic from the Killers to close out another non-stop Thursday.
Household Wisdom and More
A couple of months ago I shared the Q Ideas video presentation of Andy Crouch concerning his recent book, The Tech-Wise Family. The folks at Q Ideas recently released a “backstage” segment where Crouch got to add to his talk. … Continue reading
Wendell Berry and Why I Reread the Lord of the Rings
From Wendell Berry’s essay, “In Defense of Literacy”: . . . We must know a better language. We must speak, and teach our children to speak, a language precise and articulate and lively enough to tell the truth about the … Continue reading
Praise with Xylophone
This is a great rendition of a classic song (with a xylophonic introduction).
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Arguments before Waterloo
An excerpt from Carl R. Trueman’s “Our Cultural Waterloo” recently posted to First Things: Colleges are where the battle for the minds of the next generation will take place. And Christian colleges cannot win merely by shouting Bible verses, however … Continue reading
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Ragnarok and Roll, Too
Only one other trailer was as surprising and exciting to see out of SDCC besides Justice League: Thor-Ragnarok. What was exciting was how the trailer moved our understanding of the movie’s plot forward without giving too much away. Turns … Continue reading
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Closer to the Tower
We’re just at a week until the release of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower. The movie clocks in at just over an hour-and-a-half, which is a little concerning to me until I remember that The Gunslinger, the first book in … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 