Monthly Archives: November 2006
New Phone Number
Some of you may care: our phone number has changed. Now that we’ve been in Illinois for 4 months, we’ve finally got a local number. I’d be happy to give it to you, but I’m not about to post it on a public web page. If you want it, email me at my gmail address [...]
Masculinity
Brent over at Colossians Three Sixteen has a good post today about how masculinity isn’t just about watching Fight Club. It’s pretty good really, and gets at what I don’t like about Wild at Heart and some of these other ‘let’s all be men’ books: the fact that it seems like being a man means [...]
Follow Up to the Flaming Lips Tribute
I posted a while ago about finding some mp3 of a kids choir covering some Flaming Lips songs. I got a chance to listen to it the other day. It’s kind of cool, but it’s not a serious kids choir. I mean, it’s like your typical 5th grade choir who’s choir director was obviously a Lips fan [...]
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Chuck Colson and Brian McLaren
I think I’ve posted this (or at least read it) before, but here’s a letter to Brian McLaren from Chuck Colson in response to McLaren’s response to Colson’s Christianity Today column (sorry, it’s 1:40 and I don’t have the time/desire to dig up the links to the original column or McLaren’s response). I don’t agree [...]
More Thoughts on The Job
I’ve been thinking more about my job. This is the first time I’ve had a full time job doing something that I didn’t either a) 100% believe in or b) think was totally cool. I’ve had part-time jobs doing that kind of stuff (cafeteria, the bank), and full-time jobs doing stuff I wasn’t sure I [...]
That’s Not How I Roll
A day or two ago, I had somebody tell me that they didn’t like the new Internet Explorer. “This tab thing,” he said, “That’s not how I roll.” I about wet myself.
Politics and the Internet
Here’s an interesting article, about how the internet is affecting polictics. The main point of the article is that blogging/the internet is enabling a sort of teenager-type voter mindset, namely that people demand things, but don’t really want what they’re demanding. As the article puts it:“They wanted “sustainability”, for example, but not higher fuel prices, [...]
Christianity Today Hits Sufjan on The Head
Ok, the so I left “the [Sufjan] Nail” out of the title. But this review of Illinois and the Avalanche really gets at what makes Sufjan great and mediocre all at the same time. And while the first couple paragraphs seems to be about Christian music and the ghetto and whatnot, the heart (ie. end) of [...]
The Prisonhouse of Words Revisted
I’ve blogged about the prisonhouse of words before. And caught some flak about it.Here’s a wikipedia link to the prisonhouse of words idea. Where I went to college, this was a huge part of the philosophy they taught. In a lot of ways, it underpins the way I understand post-modernity. Let me see if I [...]
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