I'll admit it...I'm a Facebook junkie. I'm not quite sure how this new addiction got its claws in me, but I think it has something to do with this insatiable desire to engage culture and find holiness in the ordinariness of life. There are those who decry the outbreak of online social networks as a … Continue reading Facebook, coffee, & culture

Maybe it's just the late winter blues, or symptoms of the cabin fever I touched on in my last post, but lately I'm feeling a lot of frustration. And more and more, I feel like that frustration is aimed at the Church/church. I use both the "Big C" and "little c" incarnations of the word, … Continue reading Here is the church, here is the steeple…

OK, first, my apologies for not blogging regularly the past few months. My New Year's resolution is to blog more faithfully...at least once a week. That may mean more short, quick entries, links and embedded You Tube pieces and fewer rambling archeological digs into the hidden corners of my psyche, but many of you will see that … Continue reading Moses! I gotta pee!

I'm usually not big on reading books that have a lot of buzz surrounding them. I tend to think of myself as an "off the beaten path" kind of guy. Although, truth be known, I get sucked into pop culture a lot more than I'd like to admit. So when I heard all the hoopla … Continue reading Shack Wars