Monthly Archives: July 2007

Christian Leadership

July 31, 2007 | Leave a comment
Here’s an inter­est­ing post about what Chris­t­ian lead­er­ship might ought to look like. From the arti­cle: “Maybe it takes more cajones to NOT insist on the leader’s ‘vision’, or ‘strat­egy’, and to trust that the Spirit speaks through the Body, hmm?” He ban­ters back strong and weak lead­er­ship vs. mature and imma­ture leadership…Overall, really inter­est­ing and thought-provoking. [...]
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New Poetry Up

July 29, 2007 | Leave a comment
There’s a ton of new poetry up at my poetry blog, includ­ing a cou­ple poems to peo­ple, a cou­ple of which are per­sonal enough that I feel a lit­tle uncom­fort­able post­ing them.
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New Phone

July 29, 2007 | Leave a comment
Well, we finally did: we’re get­ting rid of our home phone and get­ting two cell phones. This has a lot less to do with want­ing two cell phones than it does with our home phone provider, a VoIP com­pany called Sun­rocket going out of business. We did a bit of math and real­ized if we [...]
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More on Reading–People Really Do READ This Stuff

July 18, 2007 | Leave a comment
As a follow-up to my thoughts on mar­ket­ing magazine/literature, I was think­ing about the con­tent. I’ve always felt like those mar­ket­ing things were mostly a big waste of time, par­rot­ing the same plat­i­tudes over and over. You’ve heard me level the same crit­i­cisms at most Chris­t­ian writ­ing. Most of it is sim­ply the same stuff restat­ing [...]
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People Do Read This Stuff

July 18, 2007 | Leave a comment
I friend of mine once said that his fam­ily knows they can make him happy by giv­ing him a bor­ing book for Christ­mas. At work, we get mar­ket­ing stuff all the time. I read this stuff occa­sion­ally, and think, “Does any­body read this stuff?” On the trip over here, Kris and I both read a lot. [...]
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Why Men Hate Church (or not)

July 15, 2007 | Leave a comment
My dad loves this book, Why Men Hate Church, almost as much as I love A New Kind of Chris­t­ian. He said that the guy has a pretty good cri­tique of the way we do church, and that he thinks I ought to be part of fix­ing the problem. I’m defi­nately inter­ested in recre­at­ing an [...]
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Why Open Source Is Practical

July 10, 2007 | Leave a comment
A cou­ple week­ends ago, a cou­ple friends of mine and I were talk­ing about why open source stuff is good and why we should sup­port it. Or rather, I was, rather unsuc­cess­fully, argue that as Chris­tians, a open source/creative com­mons approach to things, is one we should sup­port, pri­mar­ily because it’s both prac­ti­cal and generous. I [...]
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New Poem Up

July 10, 2007 | Leave a comment
A new poem is up at my poetry blog (it is, in fact, a response to at least one of my birth­day poems).
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More from Over the Rhine

July 6, 2007 | Leave a comment
Here’s a letter/post from OtR on their web­site, talk­ing about their life and art and whatnot. By the way, they have a new album com­ing out (and they’re stream­ing it live on my birth­day at 9pm central). In any case, I feel kind of bad read­ing the let­ter. Mostly I feel guilty for being so [...]
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Over the Rhine Poem Of The Week

July 6, 2007 | Leave a comment
As it turns out, Over the Rhine has a poem of the week on their web­site. And it’s really good right now. This is by Mr. Over the Rhine him­self, Lin­ford Detweiler (i’m post­ing it here b/c I’m afraid it’ll disappear): There’s a com­mu­nion wafer moonDis­solv­ing on the blue tongue of the sky Some­times the whole [...]
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