Archive for October, 2009
I was thinking about feet today.
It has been a particularly nice day outside here at Cedarville University, so I decided to spend some time sitting by the lake to do some reading, praying, journaling, etc. My feet were tired of being in shoes all day, so I took my shoes and socks off and enjoyed [...]
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Tags: God, life, random
Gettin’ Hitched
As part of my progression through church history, I read through the Crusades of the Medieval era tonight, and I couldn’t help but see the connections between that mistake of the Church and the earlier and (perhaps bigger) mistake of aligning itself with Constantine in the 300s. I’ve been reading through history and analysis of [...]
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In light of the massive amount of reading and writing I have on tap for the current semester’s worth of classes, my consistent contribution to this blog has suffered. Currently I am working on a paper that will be due tomorrow on the rise of Constantine and the resulting impact on the Church, so I [...]
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Tags: Christian culture, school
21
Well as of an hour ago my 21st birthday has come and gone.
Of course, 21 is a big deal for those in or around my age. For the obvious reasons – being legally allowed to purchase and consume alcohol – and thus by extension somehow attaining manhood? Something about drunkenness doesn’t quite add up to [...]
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Billion-Dollar Numbness
The Senate Finance Committee just gave the go-ahead to move forward with the health care reform bill everyone has been yelling about for the past year. According to the reports, the estimated cost of the whole thing would be $829 billion, or $829,000,000,000. Lots of zeros.
Over the past few years, with all the recession talk and bailouts [...]
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Tags: consumerism, disillusionment, politics, the world
Think Bigger Than That
Whatever the gospel is, it centers on the inauguration of the kingdom of God in Jesus Christ, crucified and risen from the dead. Hence the gospel is not first and foremost about a network of moral injunctions, nor about this or that kind of religious experience, nor about the arrival of the church, nor about some scheme [...]
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Tags: books, church, God, the world
Harmony & Discord
We’ve been concentrating on the spiritual disciplines lately in one of my classes, and for one assignment we were encouraged to incorporate one of the disciplines into our life for at least a week and see what came about from the practice.
The specific practice of the spiritual disciplines has been foreign to me for much [...]
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Kerouac
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars, [...]
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Tags: books, change, disillusionment, literature, youth
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