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Ashton Kutcher Speaks Some Truth
Somewhere between home and work yesterday morning, Relevant Magazine posted a video of a speech given by Ashton Kutcher at the Teen Choice Awards. I was so impressed with what he said (all the while receiving screams from his female … Continue reading
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Proposing a Liturgical Tweak
Whatever shortcomings my non-liturgical self sees in liturgical services, the frequent and uneditorialized reading of Scripture is not one of them. Over the last couple of years, I’ve tried to attend a local evensong service. Psalms and songs, Old and … Continue reading
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Commitment versus Being Locked-In, a Thin and Blurry Line
A friend once told me of a church that starts each year by recommitting to their beliefs, their church, and one another. It’s a brilliant way of staying or or opting out that many long-standing systems could adopt and adapt. … Continue reading
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Miller and the Question of Contentment
Lately I’ve been spending a lot more time at home. I still make it to the gym and get to church a couple of times a week and enjoy talking to my students and neighbor, but for the most part, … Continue reading
On Ents and Trees
I’ve been turning something over in my mind lately, like a diamond in the light, trying to see something. Something about life and story and speaking into and out of both of them. In the midst of this my mind … Continue reading
New Year, New You, New CS Lewis, Too!
TURNING OVER A NEW LEAF IS ONE THING; jumping trees is something else entirely. Turns out that’s exactly what C. S. Lewis did following the events of World War II. According to an article posted at Christianity Today titled “Why … Continue reading
2012: The Year of Richard Parker
THERE IS A MOMENT at the end of Life of Pi where Pi (the survivor) and Richard Parker (the tiger) finally reach land. Pi, collapsed on the beach, finds his throat so dry that he cannot speak, cannot utter a word … Continue reading
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Being Mosby: Getting Out of the Pit
WHILE I AM MOST FOND of How I Met Your Mother comparison to LOST, some of its best moments show it a descendant of another show: Scrubs. Somewhere along the way, mixed in with the flashes backwards, forwards, and sideways, … Continue reading
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Frodo, Sam, and a Little Something about Advent
AS A GOLLUM-LED FRODO AND SAM leave Ithilien for Mount Doom, something catches their eyes: Standing there for a moment filled with dread, Frodo became aware that a light was shining; he saw it glowing on Sam’s face beside him. … Continue reading
Glee Takes on the Rapture
I WAS A BIT SURPRISED when Tim LaHaye’s Left Behind series founds its way onto the most recent episode of Glee. The last time the show tackled religion, in season two’s “Grilled Cheesus” episode, the storyline was meaty and challenging. … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 