Truth

Jack Nicholson was probably right. Tom Cruise couldn’t handle the truth.
Can you? Can I? Can we?
Claims about truth get thrown around like scud missiles.
Some in the church lament the loss of the day when we believed there was absolute truth (or should I say “Absolute Truth” and that we (the church) had it.
Some [...]

Shift

Reggie McNeal says:
The shift that’s got to occur is from looking at the Kingdom through Church lenses to looking at the Church through Kingdom lenses.
HT Think Christian

Top Ten

A good friend and colleague asked me for my “top ten books for youth ministry or personal top ten.”
Here’s what I told him:

Christianity for the Rest of Us, by Diana Butler-Bass
Practicing Passion, by Kenda Creasy Dean
Politics of Jesus, by John Howard Yoder
Soul Searching, by Christian Smith and Melinda Denton
Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry, by Andrew Root
Postmodern [...]

Don’t Bite this Apple!

No one is all right OR all wrong. (Ok, maybe the latter wouldn’t hold up, but no one is all right, right?) Not even Apple and Steve Jobs. Wired admitted last week, that they were wrong about some tips they had offered Apple in 1997.  In another interesting piece on March 18, Wired [...]

Generational difference?

Heard a well-respected, seminary-trained retired professor of psychology say this the other day: “Hollywood tells us that marriage is passé.”
I tried to give the guy the benefit of the doubt, but I just can’t go along with it.  Sure, there are movies and television shows that don’t pay marriage a lot of respect, and there [...]

Sony Now v. Then

Word is HD-DVD is dead.  Toshiba is not pursuing the technology any further.
The HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray battle has been the latest version of VHS vs. Beta.  The difference this time is that Sony’s version has, apparently, won.
What did Sony do differently this time?
What can we learn from what Sony learned?

Election Solution

It’s almost primary season for the 2008 Presidential elections.  Here’s a prediction made by Lore Sjöberg of Wired.
With Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton battling it out, the Democratic Party urges the two to set aside their differences and combine their genetic material in vitro to create the perfect candidate, who will be aged artificially in [...]

Ron Paul, the Cross, and Facism

Courtesy of Sharper Iron, I’ve learned of Mike Huckabee’s “Cross ad” (they don’t play campaign ads in Texas, apparently), and of Ron Paul’s commentary, which, according to the title fo the Sharper Iron piece, “links the cross and facism.”
Do’t go off half-cocked like I did upon reading that.  Read further (I did that, too).
Paul was [...]

Bye, Bye Light Bulb

Yahoo reports (from US News and World Reports) that the energy bill just passed by Congress will phase out the incandescent lightbulb in the United States by 2012.
The article alleges that the energy savings of converting to CFLs (Compact Flourescent Bulbs, the current up-and-comer), which amounts to 60-70%, would save the country as much energy as [...]

the Writer’s Strike end must please

Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien are coming back. Since I am almost never up late enough to watch them, this news doesn’t effect me much.  I am very interested in the writer’s strike, though.
I admit it: I’m a TV hound.  There are shows I really enjoy watching.  If my DVR always worked, there would no [...]