With MLK Day quickly approaching, I’m hoping you’ll be motivated to take a few minutes of your year and consider spending some time thinking about our nations history and our current society as it relates to race. The American Anthropological Association has put together a really neat website, Understanding Race, that creatively addresses the issue of race. It’s a great learning experience to spend a half hour browsing the site. It’s Sunday, and unfortunately most of us tend to see MLK Day as just another day off of school …

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I think I’ve talked about opportunity cost before, but it bears repeating. It basically means: “the cost of something in terms of an opportunity forgone”* which is exactly what this ad above is about. Now for my confession, for all my talk about giving and sacrifice I currently own an ipod. It doesn’t matter that I got it for free off one of those sites, the opportunity cost of it is still the same, because I could easily sell it. We’ve had an ipod for a …

Like I’ve said before, I want to be creative in the way I instill values in my children. One way I think we can do that is through nursery rhymes. Let’s be honest a lot of the nursery rhymes we currently sing and teach have no real moral or point to them anyways. So, following in the footsteps of those before us who converted old Drinking Songs to Christian Hymns, here are my brief attempts at converted nursery rhymes:
To the tune of Mary had a Little Lamb:
Jesus loves his Enemies, …

I want others to respect my values and morals and to respect how I raise my children as a parent. There are parent’s out there that have warped values and child-rearing practices, and that often demands the intervention of a community and sometimes the law, but most of the time we respect different parenting practices. So here is a brief insight into my hopes of instilling certain values in my children, and then a brief defense of them.
I want to raise my children valuing the importance of relationship and community. …

Many guys my age or older remember the glory days of card collecting. You wouldn’t have thunk it, but I was big into collecting sports cards when I was in elementary and middle school. It started with baseball, Topps with the chewing gum, and then the gloss Upper Deck cards. My fourth grade teacher, Mr. Perry, a big baseball card collector himself, gave away the special holographic edition cards for good behavior in his class, I was hooked. And is the aspiring young capitalist I and everyone else was, most …

As you can see, most of you don’t mind more posts. For the few that do only want one a day I’m going to try and figure out and show you a way to subscribe to just one.
Now, this doesn’t mean I will necessarily post more then once a day, but I wanted to make sure I wasn’t imposing too much on you if I do. For those that receive the email update this shouldn’t be a problem at all since it automatically puts each days posts (one or more) …

    I was hesitant to go to college at first. It’s a lot of money for a piece of paper.  As Will Hunting would say, “you dropped a hundred and fifty grand on an education you coulda’ picked up for a dollar fifty in late charges at the Public Library.” For a while it seemed to me that trusting in pieces of paper was a lack of faith on my part; not trusting in God’s provision for me.  Eventually I came to the conclusion that I had been afforded the …

Whether you run by the solar calendar, lunar, or school calendar, it seems like each year often surrounds or is highlighted by a particular event. At the young age that I am, many of those years have been centered primarily around that year in school. More recently though it has been large events like Marriage, AmeriCorps, Graduating College, Moving to Nashville, and Living in Community. Now, as 2007 rolls around our lives are taking a dramatic turn that will forever change us: Mindy and I are having a baby.
I think …