i’ve been lurking over at jesus manifesto for a little while now and have really enjoyed the thought-provoking content there. in particular, this post caught my eye thanks to this poster image from the plow.
old jimmy d. has really done it this time. just when you thought focus on the family’s “fearless” (and misguided) leader couldn’t soil his reputation any further, he goes off the deep end one more time with yet another political mishap revealing how far he’s fallen from reality, and more importantly, how deep he sits in the pocket of the GOP. seriously, you’d think he’d want to retire with a shred of dignity remaining, but i guess he really wants to secure his legacy as an “evangelical” extremist in the laughable tradition of pat robertson and jerry falwell. (more…)
while it’s nice to have much of the summer “off” from teaching, most of my time over the next couple of months will be focused on research and course prep for the fall. the latter involves reviewing books and revising syllabi, while the former is taking shape in a much less systematic fashion. an engineer once assured me that “it must be so much easier to research theology than the hard sciences” since my research “isn’t really coming up with new ideas.” and while admittedly, the market demand for theological research isn’t quite up there with, say, chemical engineering, i still think it’s important and i’m glad that much of the academic establishment’s brainpower is not solely committed to “rational enterprises.” theology, philosophy, history, literature, and the social sciences may not have the tangible value of computer science, but i think we’d be in a lot of trouble without them. (more…)
i was surprised at the absence of widespread editorializing when california legalized same-sex marriage this week, but maybe people are just tired of the ongoing back-and-forth battle that is bound to be another drawn out legal process. i’ve been told on numerous occasions that the push for LGBT rights in the US is one of the primary civil rights issues remaining today, and i do often wonder how history will look back at our cultural engagement with the complexity of it all. in time, will we scoff at our intolerance (as we do when we consider that interracial marriage was still largely illegal in the US until 1967), or will we stand by “traditional” values as the bedrock of our moral foundation? (more…)
as an alum of regent college, that wonderful “international graduate school of christian studies” in the beautiful city of vancouver, i recently received my copy of the regent world, a quarterly publication that keeps me connected to… well, the regent world. on the cover is a great little piece on the sabbath by dr. loren wilkinson, a man who thoroughly confused me during my season of studies at regent. as “professor of interdisciplinary studies & philosophy,” i really had no idea what he was talking about most of the time. his continual comments about our “creatureliness” and “creation stewardship” left me puzzled- even more puzzled than i already was by his odd-looking beard. (more…)
are babies contagious? they seem to be everywhere. my hard drive is loaded with baby pictures. my house has been overrun with baby gear. and i found a pacifier in my pants today. here’s jonas with his cousin cohen- this is their attempt at looking “hard.”
i swear we didn’t pose them- apparently they wanted to coordinate fists… (more…)
maybe i’m just tired from finishing up the quarter at spu, but i came across this blog post and couldn’t stop laughing at the fobsta and rice-boy descriptions. granted, stuff asian people like isn’t quite as clever as stuff white people like, but hey, asians are great at copying things and making them almost as good.
