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25 Things

1. I started dating Anne Marie when I was just short of my 15th birthday
2. I married Anne Marie when I was just short of my 20th birthday
3. In between those two dates, I didn’t always treat Anne Marie as well as could have. I hope I do a lot better now.
4. I get annoyed [...]

What is an “emergent”?

Someone just emailed me this question: “What is an emergent?”
This is a sincere question from a friend of mine who is not a church attender who honestly knows nothing about the Emerging Church conversation.  He is quite Biblically literate, philosophically deep, and a great artist and aspiring luthier to boot.
How would you answer his question?
Michael [...]

Tim Challies – The Burden of Being Blurbed

Tim Challies’s new (and first!) book The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment arrived in the mail today.  I’ve already started reading it and will post a review when I finish.
Earlier this week I sent a suggestion to Tim that he blog about his experiences as a first-time published author for the benefit of those who hope [...]

One Book (sometimes two)

(Thanks to For What It’s Worth for these questions)
01. One book that changed your life
The New Man – Thomas Merton
02. One book that you’ve read more than once
On Writing – Stephen King
03. One book you’d want on a desert island
The Ultimate Desert Handbook – Mark Johnson
04. Two books that made you laugh
Parliament of Whores – [...]

An Atheist’s Perspective

Michael, on his blog Atheist Perspective, has taken theists (me in particular) to task for focusing too much on Dawkins’ tone rather than on the detrimental effects of Christianity. Point taken – I have been talking a lot about that, haven’t I? I shall focus less on it in the future.
In the meantime, [...]

Connecting Over Coffee

Words and coffee, the best things in life are free and $1.55 respectively. “Going for coffee” is a new thing for me; I’ve never been a ‘let’s go for a coffee’ guy but I’m trying to be one now, because I can see the positive effects.
We went on vacation a couple of weeks ago and [...]