Recently Pastor John Piper rushed to add his two cents about the storms that hit OK. Piper is known for being a bold defender of God’s sovereignty in all happenings, readily claiming in the face of calamities that God carried such things out as punishment for sin. Piper’s theology is painful to many, disgusting […]
Why does everyone care so much about a wealthy American family named Kardashian and their pregnancies and their drama? Obviously the family does much to keep audiences engaged on their reality show that documents their lives, but recently there has been more press. Kim is pregnant…very pregnant, and everyone is obsessed with this. Why? Keeping […]
If you have played Mario Kart before then you know about Rainbow Road; it is the hardest and most heart-wrenching track on most Mario Kart games. I detest Rainbow Road for it’s difficulty and agony, but after I saw a tweet from a twitter friend, I really began to think. He said, “rainbow road […]
Last week I attended Subverting the Norm II conference in Springfield, MO. It was a brilliant weekend of meeting folks I had only known in cyberspace. One particular topic that was talked about at the conference was radical theology and it’s doubt and death of the big other and how/if any of this can live […]
Read 1cor1.18-31 Paul writes to a community of Christians about a God that is known in the foolishness of the world, not the wisdom. Ponder and chew upon that for a bit. This is a God that’s said to not be able to even be found by any wisdom. Period. This is a God, according […]
Medusa. Turning people to stone. Dilemma. Thoughts.[1] Originally I hinted in part 1 that we could assume the role of Perseus and behead her. Everyone has seen that famous statue in Florence, Italy of Perseus holding the head of Medusa out like a trophy. I was able to view it in person while there. Thankfully […]
In Greek Mythology there’s an infamous story that has both inspired and terrorized many. The story is of a gorgon called Medusa.[1] In a popular version of the tale, she was a beautiful virgin woman that began an affair with the god of the sea, Poseidon; and this affair climaxed when the two made love […]
