Phil Baker has brought something to my attention about U2 that I didn’t know, but now that I think about it, it makes a lot of sense. I have been watching the U2 concert recorded in Ireland when the warm-up act was Ireland making the quarter finals of the world cup. Paul Morrison tells me […]

Jeff Berryman is writing some awfully good stuff over at his site. I’ve added him to the blog roll. He’s interacting with McKee’s book Story. I’ve had this book on my wishlist for over a year now, but haven’t pulled the trigger. Reading Berryman’s thoughts on it makes me think it may be time to […]

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Roger Ebert on the nature of documentaries. A reader writes: “In your articles discussing Michael Moore’s film ‘Fahrenheit 9/11,’ you call it a documentary. I always thought of documentaries as presenting facts objectively without editorializing. While I have enjoyed many of Mr. Moore’s films, I don’t think they fit the definition of a documentary.” That’s […]

I took a long lunch today with several other Garnett staffers and watched “Saved!” I found it to be a hilarious, embarrassing, and moving critique of the American Evangelical Christian subculture. It was hilarious in that the Christian stereotypes are over the top, but also spot on. It was embarrassing in that I recognized myself […]

Tonight I’m teaching a class from Eph. 5:21-6:9. This Sunday I’ll preach from the same text. That means I get to address the whole “wives submit to your husbands” issue. I’ve done quite a bit of research on this passage over the years and I think what it actually “says” is not all that chauvinistic, […]

I just returned from a day at the cabin by the lake that I sometimes go to when I need to get away. I spent time fleshing out my calendar for the next few months, preparing for an upcoming trip to Siberia, and reading Lee Camp’s Mere Discipleship: Radical Christianity in a Rebellious World. It’s […]

Here’s Garrison Keillor’s response to a question about multimedia in church. Found via Darryl Dash Dear Garrison,As a Methodist to a Lutheran, I have a pressing question. I work in church communications and one of the things I’m helping folks do is the incorporation of multimedia and digital storytelling into their worship services. Mass communication […]

A friend passed on an ad she found in The New York Times. Here is how it reads: Causeless Love and Limitless Joy Sandra and Daniel Biskind received the gift of enlightenment and healing, and the ability to transfer this energy . . . This transformation begins a process that permanently changes your consciousness. receive […]

The meeting ended on a productive note. I think there will be some events in the next couple of years that have the potential to gather folks from both tribes together for worship, repentance, and fellowship. Hopefully, the long range outcome will not just be a few big events, but cooperation between our two tribes […]