- Why I’m Making a Syllabus for a Class That Doesn’t Exist I used to read as a simple, unobtrusive way to unwind. Not so much anymore. I don’t like to read for fun. Maybe I’m really, really missing being in school. Maybe that’s also why, with all else I’ve “got goin’ on,” I’m going into my 3rd year as Rob Gallagher’s TA for a foundation course in […]
- Genesis and Gilead I’ve just finished reading through Genesis. Though there is much I could say, right now I’m most struck by this place called Gilead, just east of the Jordan river. My commentaries tell me that Gilead was once famous for its healing balm that came from the storax tree. I can’t stop thinking about the weighty […]
- Choicemobbed; or, How we can push for good with our buying power I recently was given some cash for a certain baby King’s birthday. I decided to use the money to buy some novels at Better World Books. BWB is an excellent alternative to Amazon.com, for many reasons. I’m so glad to have found them. Actually I found Better World Books, and then I choicemobbed them. You should […]
- If I Could Preach On Job Job is a difficult book. It is particularly difficult in that it is framed in a “neat” fairy-tale way, in the beginning and the end–while the center of it is filled with the mess of life: the unanswerable questions of pain. Today in class my group gave a short presentation on our reading of the Epilogue […]
- Redemptive Golf-team R.I.P. My alma mater, UMBC, is headed to the NCAA division I basketball tournament for the first time. This is a very big deal for our very young Baltimore university. I only mention it because the year I graduated, UMBC chose to take away funding from a handful of smaller Varsity programs–including the womens’ golf team […]
- Confessions in Salem This is a remarkably beautiful story from Pastor Phil in Salem, Mass. Especially if you’ve read Miller’s Blue Like Jazz. Here’s a quick excerpt from the post, One Big Sorry Church: It was no new idea…James was the one with the idea of trying it in Salem over the weeks of Halloween events, and I […]
- Tattooed Saints I am without words for how refreshing it has been to be with both the 24-7 Prayer community, and here at IHOP. I’ll turn instead to tattoos. Tonight I went with a ministry team of ordinary people into inner-city Kansas City. We left from the IHOP parking lot, prayed we’d bring with us God’s love […]