April 2012
1 post
“A new standard for viable youth ministry should be – not the number of...”
– Barna director David Kinnaman, http://www.whitehorseinn.org/blog/2012/03/28/generation-me-and-youth-ministry-today-part-1/
March 2012
1 post
Can we advocate without oversimplifying? (an...
I decided that I would do a lot of reading on the Kony debate before I wrote about it. I have and I came across an interesting post by a guy named Ethan Zuckerman. He gives a good historical perspective on the issue before getting into the debate at hand.
Towards the end of his post he asks this question: “Can we advocate without oversimplifying?”. What follows is part of his thoughts...
February 2012
1 post
“It has been commonplace to interpret Jesus’ temptations as analogous to,...”
– Sinclair Ferguson, The Holy Spirit
“The conception of Jesus by the Spirit underlines both his identification with...”
– Sinclair Ferguson, The Holy Spirit
January 2012
7 posts
One of my favorite jokes:
So this guy is taking his girlfriend to the high school prom. And he’s got a lot of work to do.
First he has to rent a tux, so he goes to the tuxedo store. But there’s a huge tuxedo line at the store. Finally he gets out of there and realizes he has to go buy a corsage, so he goes to a florist. But there’s this big long corsage line at the florist. Finally he gets the corsage...
“Many of our greatest heroes were men and women who were willing to rock the...”
– Columnist Jonah Goldberg
“To eliminate the vice of wordiness is to ensure the virtue of emphasis, which...”
– Wilson Follett
“A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least...”
– George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language”
Ron Paul's "Un-electability"
“It’s amazing that I do so much better than those other candidates that are all electable. They’re all in fourth, fifth and sixth place, but they’re all electable, but I come in second or third, and all of the sudden people say, ‘Oh, he’s not electable.’ I don’t know how that adds up.”
-Ron Paul (via CBS News)
Funny how the “media”...
December 2011
3 posts
Man steals Greyhound bus to meet friend for... →
PEEKSKILL - A 39-year-old city man faces felony charges upstate after apparently not heeding Greyhound’s slogan of “Leave the driving to us.”
I’m just going to leave this here.
November 2011
4 posts
“It’s primarily true and only secondarily helpful. When we start telling our kids...”
– Kim Riddlebarger on Christianity, Sunday School and teaching the Christian faith to youths
The Kindest Voice I've Ever Heard
The other night I read one of the most interesting pieces of writing I think I’ve ever read. It was about Mr. Rogers, the man with the kindest voice I’ve ever heard. The piece is written in a “creative nonfiction” style, which in and of itself is particularly interesting. The piece is a little lengthy, but aren’t the best things always worth a good amount of time?...
“Fairy tales do not give a child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles (1909), XVII: “The Red Angel”
October 2011
4 posts
Gotta love emails from Campus Safety...
The academic buildings are increasingly being used for miscellaneous games such as nerf ball, wiffle baseball games, frisbee throwing, sardines and other activities. While these games may seem harmless on the surface, they have resulted in problems for those who are using the facilities for their intended academic purposes.
Complaints have been received about the noise and disruption that...
September 2011
8 posts
Be Thou My Vision - Andy Hull
That’s...
“Having lost our confidence in the power of God’s Word to create the world...”
– Methodist Bishop William Willimon
Meow. (Or, "That Thing")
As I was doing some research for an assignment for my Ethics class, I came across a talk by Alan Watts in which he explains life (I know, right?). Just to be clear, after reading some of his other stuff, I don’t say by any means that I agree with everything Watts teaches, but this particular point was good. I’ll go through his example but I want to add a few things here and there to make...
Perpetuum Mobile - Penguin Cafe Orchestra. What a...
August 2011
15 posts
“You have to roll up your sleeves and be a stonecutter before you can become a...”
– Philip Gerard, author
“He looked at her. After a while he said: It’s not about knowin where you are....”
– Cormac McCarthy, “No Country for Old Men”
It’s been forever since I’ve listened...
“Wouldn’t it be cool if you saw someone with a tear tattoo on their face and it...”
– hrrrthrrr
“When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each...”
– Steve Jobs
“Lemme tell you a thing or two about garage sales: Ya ever get the feeling that...”
– Strong Bad, Strong Bad Email 129
Family Vacation 2011 Pictures
So the family took a vacation up to Minnesota for a few days here at the end of the summer. All of these pictures were taken with my iPod so the quality isn’t the best on some. I messed around with a few effects on some of them and there are a few HDR photos are in there too. Enjoy.
"They can't all be hits, Roger."
To be honest, there isn’t much that excites me about going back to school in Ohio this fall. So I figured that instead of trying to figure out what to do about that, I would sit down and complain to both people who might read this. There’s a danger in writing this that I’ll come across as completely self-focused and cynical. That’s what I’m trying to stay away from. But if you’ve tried to talk to...
On Music, Virality, Hits and Lasting Meaning (if...
What is it about us that makes us love music so much? What is it about that one earworm that compels just about every teen with an internet connection to post those intentionally ambiguous but pointed words? Why do we sit there listening to the same song on repeat for an hour? Did we miss something the first ten times we heard it? Probably not. There’s something more there. Case in point: I...
July 2011
3 posts
Farther Along
<a href=”http://joshgarrels.bandcamp.com/track/farther-along” _mce_href=”http://joshgarrels.bandcamp.com/track/farther-along”>Farther Along by Josh Garrels</a>
…Where did I go wrong, I sang along
To every chorus of the song
That the devil wrote like a piper at the gates
Leading mice and men down to their fates
But some will...
"If this isn't nice..."
“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’” -Kurt Vonnegut One of my biggest faults is that I don’t recognize when I’m happy. One of the easiest things for me to do is to complain and find the faults in where I am or who I’m with. So when I look back on a week it’s...
May 2011
3 posts
VW Camper Van Tent →
What a great…idea?
