I don’t know that I have any profound Easter thoughts. The latest is that, with an 8 month old, I’m finding a lot of the sort of foundational, theological stories of my faith, to be well, hard to explain.
Someone gave us a book about Easter, and though like all her books, the kiddo has no idea really what I’m reading, I still find it a little hard to stomach. On the one hand, I think being able to communicate ideas and stories on a level that little children will …

Last week I read The 4-Hour Workweek, by Timothy Ferriss. Considering I currently don’t have any ‘workweek’ to speak of, I figure 4 hours might be a step in the right direction, especially if he’s suggesting that’s all you need to work. It was a decent read.
Like many of these self-help, get-rich types of book, most of his ideas could have been summed up much more concisely, but then he wouldn’t of had a book to publish, sell and hit the top sellers list with. It did have some unique …

If you didn’t already know, I wrote a book. Over the course of a month, last November, I wrote an entire fiction novel. It was my first book project and my first fiction work.
Anyways, I’ve self-published it through Createspace.com and it is now available for sale. If your interested in ordering a copy, here is the link to the e-store:
http://www.createspace.com/3335807
It will be available on Amazon.com soon is available on Amazon.com, but it will always be cheaper at my direct link. If you happen to be one of the lucky …

Just got back from another open mic night at the coffee shop down the street from my house. Have I told you yet that I love where I live?
Anyways, I’ll just make this post brief, but I really want to encourage you to attend an open mic somewhere in your city. I’m talking about the kind of open mic that spoken word artist show up at and share the most powerfully poetic prose you’ve ever witnessed. Words that are so real, so passionate, and so true they resonate in …

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to watch the first part of the PBS series, Race: The Power of An Illusion, with a group of folks from our church. It’s an incredible video series that I truly believe every person should be required to watch at some point in their lives.
I can’t seem to find any clips from the first section that I saw yesterday, but I’m going to include just one from the whole documentary to give you a taste of the information you’ll hear about.
You can probably find …

If you’ve commented on the blog recently, You’ve probably been confronted with a Error 500. Never fear, your comment has still posted, it just didn’t send you back to the page.
Anyways, I was going to post, but with limited time, I’m going to try and fix these errors today. Hopefully you’ll know the results soon.
I think I fixed it. Please do me a favor and comment below, let me know if you are able to comment without it going to a blank white page that says Error 500
Peace.

(These are thoughts in progress, stuff I haven’t considered before but a friend pointed out yesterday.)
As you might know I think the idea of redemptive violence is a myth, that you can not bring redemption and good through violent acts (good guy kills bad guy, all live happily ever after). I began to come to this understanding as I was reading my bible, particularly Jesus’ words and life, and couldn’t reconcile that with the ideas of war and violence in general accomplishing peace.
What I hadn’t thought about until it …

Okay, this is a lame book to review in comparison to the other books I’ve been reading, but it’s the book I read, so here’s the review. Playing for Pizza is one of John Grisham’s more recent books. It’s not in the mystery/law thriller category. I think he’s probably worked into his book writing deal that every once in a while he can write a book he wants to write that doesn’t fit the genre and they have to publish it. I guess you can probably do that when your …