Seeing as our strengths are our weaknesses, and so on, here is a reflection on something I don’t know much about. Being a born and bred, independent, Restoration-movement, Christian churchite, I don’t know much about the church calendar traditions of other denominations. I was doing reading in a book called “Alternative Worship” (Baker and Gay, [...]

Also, here is a Christmas haiku I wrote last night during the Ladies Tea.
Oh, honeybaked ham,
how I love your crispiness!
Ham, ham, hammy ham
Please submit one of your own. First prize is a honeybaked ham. Just kidding. Those are expensive.

ar·got
Pronunciation: ‘är-g&t, -(”)gO
Function: noun
Etymology: French
: an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group
So in this paper, I was talking about christianese and church jargon, which I referred to as its argot. Which may defeat my entire point, since it’s a word no one’s ever heard of, including me [...]

I haven’t been much in the habit of doing personal, life-update style posts, but here’s one. With 62.5% of internship sites reporting (that’s 5 of 8 ISR’s), I am currently supporting a 60% Interview Offer Percentage, or IOP (3 of 5 sites offering interviews). As the number of ISR’s increases, my IOP could change drastically [...]

Here’s my last in a series of promised posts. Identifying the work of God in our lives. I began examining this issue largely because of my interest in the nature and existence of human suffering. If we have a tight theology of “God’s hand” (i.e. we regularly, clearly, and with certainty claim God acts in [...]

I will attempt to answer this question briefly. I’m tired of my own long-winded posts. How does God speak through culture? With the caveat that we must always be careful and discerning-probably even reluctant to say for absolute certain-when God is speaking, whether in or outside of the church, here goes.
By listening to culture we [...]