1968

I was born in a turbulent year. I didn’t discover this until late high school. Somehow I remained ignorant of the events that rocked the nation that year. Of course, I was small and didn’t watch much TV that first year. Then we landed on the moon the next year, and all that bad stuff [...]

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Christian Cursing

I read this piece today. I thought, “That’s interesting, but I haven’t seen people using $ymbols to replace letters in curse words in Christian circles.” Then, shortly after, I read this. I must not be paying attention. That happened way too fast.
 
Update: And sometimes it’s not so subtle.

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Going Home

As a man aches for his evening meal when all day long his brace of wine-dark oxen have dragged the bolted plowshare down a fallow field–how welcome the setting sun to him, the going home to supper, yes, though his knees buckle, struggling home at last.
Odysseus longed for home. Do I? Or am I too comfortable [...]

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Sorrow: Proof of God’s love.

I have been working on an OT survey curriculum that I will be teaching to middle school kids in the fall. This morning I have been wrestling through Genesis 16 and the story of Sarai and Hagar. As I am trying to figure out how to take something 4000 years old and make it real [...]

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A happy day in the blogosphere.

I ran across this blog while doing some follow up reading after my last post. Holly does a great job of talking about the demise of purity in our culture and in giving encouragement to teen girls in this area. A must read.

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Sad day in the funnies

I’ve never been a huge fan of Doonesbury, mainly because I rarely find it funny. I realize it is a political cartoon, but since it gets stuck in the funnies section, I’m looking for a few laughs now and again. In addition to it being unfunny, I find the tone arrogant and condescending. Tomorrow’s addition, [...]

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Sanctification in progress. Please stand by.

Pete, a pastor in Nashville, recently had an opportunity to spend time at a Poison concert. It seems their lead guitarist, C.C. DeVille, has become a Christian and asked for the pastor to come spend time with him, talk with him, and 
tell me if you see me do anything that would not be honoring to God.
Some [...]

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I’m sorry—I got caught.

Jesse Jackson had to apologize to Barack Obama for a crude comment he made when he thought the microphone was turned off. It seems Jackson doesn’t appreciate Obama spending time talking to the black community about morality. Once again, Jackson shows his lack of integrity. Would he have thought to apologize had he not been [...]

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The Conscience in Us All

When Nwoye, Okonkwo’s son, realizes that someone has been killed in Things Fall Apart, Achebe describes his reaction this way, “…something seemed to give way inside him, like the snapping of a tightened bow. He did not cry. He just hung limp. He had the same kind of feeling not long ago…They were returning home…when [...]

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I feel; therefore, I am.

Jake says, “That was morality; things that made you disgusted afterward.”
Jake would fit in well in our culture. Morality by feeling guides the conscience of the country, bringing about the culture wars: abortion, sex, free speech, hate speech, restricted speech, the environment, capital punishment, racism, sexism, etc. Whether or not you agree with the concepts [...]

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