Black Friday and other Friday Ramblings (11/25/05 - 0 Comments)
Yesterday I indicated that I am a little bit envious of American Thanksgiving. We Canadians are impassioned about almost nothing (except our lack of passion and our distaste towards most things American) and make far less fuss about Thanksgiving than our friends across the border. I don't think that is a good thing, but I also kind of like America and Americans. That is probably grounds for treason up here. While I often spend Christmas...
Friday Ramblings - A Critical, Judgmental Deconstruction of Derek Webb's Life, Faith and Ministry (11/18/05 - 0 Comments)
A Critical, Judgmental Deconstruction of Derek Webb's Life, Faith and Ministry It seems that some people are expecting me to deconstruct the interview with Derek Webb. I am not going to do that. I am not going to write about what my conversation with him did to my opinion of his life, faith or ministry. There would be no value in that. However, I do have a few observations that I would like to make....
Gas Station Conversation (10/26/05 - 0 Comments)
I left the house this morning at 9:20 to attend to two small jobs. Neither was supposed to take more than a few minutes. Yet somehow it is now four hours later and I have just gotten home. The work took a little bit longer than expected and I got called into various meetings. So here it is at 1:30 which is far too late in the day for me to write anything encouraging or even interesting. Instead I thought I would relay a discussion I had this morning.
I just lied. I am going to relay a discussion I had this morning and seamlessly blend it with a discussion I had with the same person just a few days ago. I consider this artistic license and since prose is a form of art I am entitled to use it. The story requires less explanation this way. So just bear with me.
Saturday Ramblings (and Various Requests for Help) (10/22/05 - 0 Comments)
Here is another one of these rambling articles that allows me to cover a wide range of territory in one fell swoop.
Incidentally, the phrase "one fell swoop" seems to have originated with Shakespeare in his play Macbeth. Macduff, having just heard of the murder of his family, says:
All my pretty ones?
Did you say all? O hell-kite! All?
What, all my pretty chickens and their dam
At one fell swoop?
The word "fell" refers to ferocity or evil. So in one evil swoop his family was wiped out as if a kite (a bird of prey) fell upon a group of chickens.
But I digress.
Rants, Raves and Photographs (10/19/05 - 0 Comments)
I am exceptionally busy today (again). I have, quite literally, ten or twelve different web design projects underway. One of them is particularly massive and has a deadline of October 31, so the rest of the month is likely to be just as busy. So rather than try to focus my mind on one topic for any length of time this morning, I though I'd post about a variety of things that have been bouncing around my brain.
Halloween and Homeschooling: Yesterday's inevitable discussion on Halloween has generated some interesting discussion on this site and others. On question in the comments section caught my attention.
Sunday Ramblings (09/25/05 - 0 Comments)
I attend a church where the majority of the members are new believers. Many of them have never attended another evangelical church. This introduces some good elements and some bad to the church. On the good side, few of them have any real expectations or baggage that they bring from other churches. Every church has two or three people who are always saying, "Well that's not how we did it at [insert previous church here]" and they are generally tough people to deal with...
The Worst Mayor in America (09/02/05 - 0 Comments)
Ray Nagin is the worst mayor in the United States. Or surely close to it. I just finished listening to an interview with this man on WWL radio and am amazed at his inability to show any type of leadership and even to express himself coherently. Only rarely does he formulate a sentence that does not include the word "frikkin'" or that does not end in "man?" He has threatened President Bush and other government leaders with the wrath of God for not doing enough, suggesting that God is looking down on the relief efforts and that Bush is going to pay for not doing more and doing it sooner. His sentences are punctuated with slang and profanity. He is out of control.
Sunday Ramblings (08/28/05 - 0 Comments)
Over the past few weeks I've noticed more and more girls (and young women) wearings shirts that look suspiciously like lingerie. You may have seen them too. I don't know much about the world of fashion, so it's entirely possible that people have been wearing these shirts for years. Perhaps you know the shirts I'm referring to. They have very thin straps and generally have the little plastic loops and things that are usually found on bras. The top of the shirt has lace and it extends only just to the belt line, so that if the woman moves her arms, it lifts to expose her stomach and lower back. I guess these aren't a whole lot different from a standard tank-top shirt, except that they are obviously designed to look like lingerie. So what's with these things? Any why would anyone wear them to church?
Sunday Ramblings (08/14/05 - 0 Comments)
This is the last day of my vacation. In just a few hours I'm going to be heading back to the city and getting back to real life. How disappointing. Thankfully this was a good and relaxing week. Since I am not feeling too reflective today, I thought I'd ramble a little bit about what I accomplished did this week.
Thursday Ramblings (07/28/05 - 0 Comments)
I feel completely disorganized. My usual workweek involves sitting at my desk for the full 40 hours. From Monday to Friday I sit at my desk from 9 AM to 5 PM with very few exceptions. I have developed a nice little routine. The past two days I have spent very little time at my desk. Yesterday I drove into Niagara-on-the-Lake for meetings with two sets of friends and clients and then had more meetings that took up most of this morning. While all the meetings were great, and it was especially nice to meet Kevin (an occasional reader and all-around nice guy), I am now officially out of sorts. I have prepared nothing to post today, so am going to do little more than provide some links you a little bit of this and that. Mostly ramblings.
Sunday Ramblings (07/10/05 - 0 Comments)
I'm so tired today I can barely think. And I'm not quite sure why. Thankfully it's a Sunday afternoon - a time perfectly constructed for naps. So as soon as I hit the Post button I'm going to turn on the ball game, settle on the couch with a Coke (actually, a Diet Coke with Lime) and have a snooze.
I may be tired because yesterday I helped clean someone else's house. And it was the messiest house I've ever seen.
Mid-Week Meanderings (06/29/05 - 0 Comments)
Adrian Warnock, who is one of the reviewers for the Diet of Bookworms book review program wants to begin reviewing commentaries. I told him that I in my opinion there would not be enough interest among readers of blogs. After all, the book review program only makes sense to publishers if the people reading the reviews are interested in the book. I thought a 352 page linguistic, literary, and theological commentary on the first four chapters of Genesis would not have popular appeal. He disagreed, so we decided to take it to a poll. You can vote at Adrian's site.
Sunday Ramblings (06/05/05 - 0 Comments)
As some may have noticed, this was a busy week in the forums, and particularly in threads relating to Rick Warren (of which there are too many!). Richard Abanes has made some helpful posts where he tries to clarify certain matters. There have been many back-and-forth exchanges with him and various readers. Richard is publishing a book, set to release next month, and has agreed to an interview with me before then. So sometime later this month I will ask him all the tough questions that those who disagree with Purpose Driven teachings would like to ask of one who defends them. I will also be reading and reviewing his book as soon as it becomes available.
