The Church, What is it?
If you are asking “what is the church?” then you aren’t part of one correctly. When I was in college a large group in the evangelical community asked, “what is the church?” The church for many was irrelevant. The standard pastor speaking for 45 minutes, midweek bible study, and coffee hour just didn’t feel right.…
Justifying Fashion for the Church
Often in Christianity we have to categories. Those things that are sacred, and those items that are secular. Recently I have been seeing more and more how this dichotomy is dangerous and even harmful to the Christian church. There are many perfectly good enterprises that are given up in pursuit of a life that is…
Light and Darkness
I often like to think of life in poetic themes. One of the themes that I find myself coming back to is one of light and darkness. Light, is everything good and right in the world. Laughter, hugs, love, coffee, candy, sunshine, rain, swimming, and relationships. Darkness is…
Marvel and other media
Over-stimulation of Imagery
Using images and symbolism in order to engrain a new way of thinking into our heads is one of my favorite approaches. It works better than just telling yourself to do something. It also is a lot more interesting and can become very creative. For example, imagine a samurai, in full garb and sword drawn…
Borderlands and GenXers
Borderlands and the Broken Generation Borderlands is the number one selling first person shooter published by 2k games. It is set apart by its cartoon graphics and the world record for most types of guns in a game, over 17750000. It also offers one of the most disappointing endings to any first person shooter…
Marvel: Agents of Shield
Marvel Agents of Shield Marvels Agents of Shield is not what I expected. I admit that I so loved Marvel’s Avengers, and believe it to be a masterpiece that I fully engage myself in, therefore my expectations were a bit skewed. I was hoping for the deep questions posed by such television series as Lost…
Broken Crowns 