Archive for December, 2006

Geez Magazine

I remember when my grandmother gave me heck for using darn words like geez and frick.  Yes, I was childish and you may be pleased to know that I have grown out of it now.  But you can imagine my pleasant surprise to see a new publication using one of these pseudo-nasty words as the name for their [...]

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Did you get your veggies today?

Maybe you know about the Veggie Tales, the tomato and the cucumber and their other high-in-vitamin-C friends?  Anyway, what many don’t know is that Veggie Tales went a little bankrupt a few years ago and, well, it’s a long story.  But, I think it’s a great story that’s worth a read.  It’s a lesson in [...]

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Perichoresis and C. Baxter Kruger

While in Vancouver, a friend introduced me to the wisdom and insight of C. Baxter Kruger and his ministry called Perichoresis.  I am drawn in by his parables because they take aim at religiosity; debunking the idea that Christianity is meant to be a hard fought battle for acceptance from a God who needs us [...]

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Holy Ground

I write fairly regularly for a youth devotional magazine called Devo-Zine.  Click here to read one of my recent articles geared at giving youth a different perspective on Holy Ground.

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A Fresh Focus from Nouwen

This site chronicles, in many ways, my humble musings about this elusive “fresh focus.”  My eyes often get gummed up by strange lenses and I often find myself on new searches for new glasses that will help me see the world, and God, clearly.  Perhaps that’s why I so welcomed Nouwen’s words in The Wounded Healer.  [...]

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In praise of… church?!

This article is found in the London Institute of Contemporary Christianity resource called “Highlights.” Go to LICC for more.
 
Why – when God is supposedly dead, religion a cause of global conflict, and the Church inflexible, irrelevant and illiberal – would anyone become a Christian? At LICC, we have recently completed a research project with an ecumenical body [...]

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