I’ve only been blogging since August of 2009 (what’s that, like five months?), but I felt left out because all of the blogs I read are posting their 2009 top ten lists. So, like my friend Dan, I thought I would post my top five favorite posts of 2009. Enjoy! #5) What is a Friend:…
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The Martyr’s Body
I’m still reading The Purple Crown: The Politics of Martyrdom by Tripp York. I’m slowly reading through chapter 2, Body: The Field of Combat. In this chapter York attempts to “examine how the early church attempted to reconfigure the body to better perform its doxological role. York says that the “the shaping of the body…
Christmas as an Overture
Full disclosure: I have not really been in the Christmas spirit this year. In all honesty, I’m almost ready to completely give up on the holiday, totally skip it. Christmas used to be exciting for me; the religious significance was especially important to me. But as of late, it simply does not have the same…
Darlings of God: Perpetua and Felicitas
The day of their victory dawned, and the martyrs went from the prison to the amphitheatre as if they were on their way to heaven. Their faces were radiant; they were beautiful. They were moved, not by fear but by joy. Perpetua followed at a gentle pace, as a great lady of Christ, as the…
This is what kings, presidents and all powerful leaders will do.
6 But when they said, “Give us a king to lead us,” this displeased Samuel; so he prayed to the LORD.7 And the LORD told him: “Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king. 8 As they have…
Baseball, Medicine, Pain and Death
A few family members and I had an impassive conversation the other day concerning why it is that entertainers and professional athletes often make 10x the amount of money that health professionals make. Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees made $33,000,000 in 2009, while the average salary for an Emergency Room Physician was $231,368–that…
Valley Mosaic: A Creation in Process
I wrote an article recently for the Williamsport Guardian. Their December issue focuses on local faith communities, and I was asked to write about my community Valley Mosaic. A mosaic is an ancient art form which is composed of many individual broken and fragmented pieces that, when arranged by an artist, becomes a beautiful work…
Buy Nothing Day
New Moon: Resist, Resist! by Val LaCerra
My friend Val LaCerra, one half of the indie/folk duo Key of V, writes a scathing piece critiquing the Twilight series of books/movies. Although my concordance with her opinions are varying, I nonetheless think this is an important point of view that should be heard, recognized and considered. Enjoy. The newest film in the Twilight…
You’re not you. You’re everyone else.
Ijust read Peter Rollins post on Evangelism. He believes Evangelism can change the world, but his idea of Evangelism is contrary to what most may think. At his community in Ireland, Ikon, they developed an experimental group called ‘The Evangelism Project.” Essentially what they did was go around and allow themselves to be Evangelized by…