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Long time no posting.

2012-01-15T04:18:02Z

Well, I haven’t posted much around here in a few weeks, so it’s high time I put something down. First off, PT’s current Ethiopian Sidama is really great. Imagine having a blueberry muffin in your coffee, then take that image and smell it. Then take away the strange cacophonous texture, and drink what’s left over. There [...]

My dad carries a gun, but WTF is happening at OWS?

2011-11-20T00:16:22Z

I remember the first time my dad took me out for target practice. I was probably 6 or 7. There was this little out of the way spot in the woods in the middle of nowhere, beside my grandparents house. My brother and I shot a little .22 pistol. It was fun, not because I [...]

Somedays I feel a little like Jonah.

2011-10-19T04:10:14Z

I think I feel a little like Jonah. I feel a little like the prophet who has tried, through everything, to get away from a calling that he simply could not escape. Everywhere I go, it lies there, sometimes waiting to be trampled on, sometimes waiting to be adored. It flashes like flood waters, it [...]

The harmony of the sea.

2011-10-09T22:17:54Z

There is a peculiar feeling one gets, as one stares out across the Narrows straight from the shores of Bay Ridge toward the hill sides of Staten Island and the shores of industrial New Jersey beyond. It’s almost like the feeling you get as you stare out toward Sausalito from under the Golden Gate bridge. [...]

Communal Identity

2011-10-02T22:21:08Z

As today is World Communion Sunday, I thought I would take a moment to meditate on the role of community in the establishment of identity. It seems that one of the great misfortunes of western Christianity, especially of the sort I grew up in, (Protestant / Evangelical) is it’s failure to see beyond itself, its [...]

All Knowledge – OR – Lovers Walking to the Beach.

2011-09-24T23:48:46Z

I want to write a series on Corinthians. But as I picked it up to read it recently, I found myself not praying that God open my eyes to see more deeply, but somehow praying something different. I was asking instead that I wouldn’t be so caught up in the knowledge aspect of my studies. [...]

Seeing the Wind

2011-09-15T01:47:27Z

In my meditation time tonight I found myself recalling the story of Jesus walking on water. Specifically, I was thinking about Peter and his moment of horror when he saw the wind and began to sink. I wonder if the story has perhaps a little more than the simple interpretation that I usually throw at [...]

Empty Words

2011-09-11T20:46:00Z

As I read through the book of Job I consistently see references to empty words, words without wisdom, words that don’t measure up. As Job’s friends confront the suffering of the faithful servant, they wonder how he can speak empty words. As Job listens to his friends, he wonders how they can answer. Finally, God [...]

Towards an Intellectual Rigorousness with Regard to Christ

2011-09-03T14:27:38Z

I am hereby making a formal plea. I am asking that all of you make rigorous use of the intellect God gave you in your pursuit of Christ. I am also making another plea, that you forsake not the words of Paul by misapprehending the words above so as to inappropriately base your faith on any fine [...]

Intellectual Dishonesty.

2011-09-03T14:38:15Z

I would like to draw out a particular kind of dishonesty that can occasionally plague our attempts at faithful Christian theology. We want to teach Christ, but often we find it all to inviting to “lean on our own understanding.” We want to explain the mysteries of Christ, the mysteries of our own lives, any [...]