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Listening to the new Switchfoot album, which for me will always be an event, one could label it a passion project, and it has certainly been a while in the making. The product of where the bandmates find themselves in this present moment, wrestling with songs that seek to find the power of the presentContinue reading “Why Do We Fear AI: Some Thoughts in Conversation With Switchfoots Forever Now”

Feels redundant to keep saying after every new release from Zahnd that this feels like his most personal and vulnerable project to date. That was true for The Wood Between the Worlds. It seems equally true for his newest, Unseen Existences. A book that arguably works to break into the present trend in Christian scholarshipContinue reading “Unseen Existences: Brian Zahnd and Reclaiming a Theology of Heaven in a World Where The Tyranny of Materialism Looms Large”

In the recent Toy Story film (Toy Story 5), we find the creators moving to tackle the quintessential modern crisis: our relationship to technology, and specifically the epidemics of addiction and social/psychological illness it has created for the younger generations (not to mention the older ones still existing with one foot in both worlds). ThisContinue reading “Toy Story 5 and Make Believe: A Conversation on Childhood Imagination and The Act of Growing Up”

*a transcript of a recent sermon I gave on “serve one another.” When I was asked to take part in this series over at Faith Covenant I had to take a second to think through how long my wife Jen and I have been attending that church: coming on 14 years, which feels wild. That’sContinue reading “To Serve One Another: Risking The Tension of Our Life In Christ”

Time travel, a timeless city, a river and an apostle. Envoloping all of this were two complimentary (and massive) historical works, one about the global history of capitalism, the other about applying a European lens to that global history I had timed finishing my reading of famed Survivor (play, voice and anaylst) legend’s first bookContinue reading “My Reading Journey: May”

A Call to Persevere 19 Therefore, my brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, 20 by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain (that is, through his flesh), 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us approach with aContinue reading “The Hope of One Another as a Reclamation of Wonder”

I was going through some of the unpublished drafts that I’ve saved over the years in my blogspace. Most of these are unfinished pieces, notes that I took on books or articles, thoughts I jotted down but never fleshed out. I came across a couple I composed close together that were ruminating on the conceptContinue reading “Old Drafts, Ruminations on Time, and Further Thoughts About the Nature of This Reality”

In one of those surreal moments that anchors a specific memory in a time and place you don’t forget, it was on a road trip from Winnipeg to California when news broke of Micheal Jackson’s death. Even more specific, a mere hour after we had been traversing a mostly empty Hollywood Boulevard (back before itContinue reading “How The Iconic Figures of Our Childhood Navigate the Tension Between Wonder and Disillusionment: Thoughts on Michael”

Some thoughts on Roderick Beaton’s Europe: A New History: Listened to this one on audio, which worked fairly well. It’s not the kind of book that demands a ton of underlining, rather it’s interested in drawing out a historical narrative. One that begins with the Greek city-states (or more accurately with the seed bed thatContinue reading “Seeing the World Through a European Lens: Caught Between the Collective and the Superpower”

I loved this move (The Sheep Detectives)  If you get a chance, go and see it and support it. My thoughts: I expected to like this film. I did not expect to love it as much as I did. From the film’s opening montage, which invests us directly in this relationship between this middle aged manContinue reading “When a Family Movie About Talking Sheep is More Philosophically Aware of the Problem of Death and the Struggle of Existence Than Much Adult Fare”