The Church in Consumerism

The other day I was reading one of my favorite authors and I came across this statement:
“… [W]e must think of ways in which we are products of our own culture.  For example, we do not borrow the idea of consumerism, nor are we influenced by it.  We are consumers because we live in a [...]

Transparency is Empowering

Sometimes I get a on band-wagons a little late.  This past week I started and finished Freakonomics by Levitt and Dubner (2005).  Chapter 2 (“How is the Klu Klux Klan Like a Group of Real Estate Agents?”) looks at how people use information to manipulate others.
Knowledge is power, especially when one small group has it [...]

The Full Figured Word of God

Last week Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) make some weird comments that the media jumped on making him out to be some kind of a imbicile.  Speaking of U.S. owned Guam and the military’s plans of dropping another 80,000 people on that island he said,
“My fear is that the whole Island will become so overly populated [...]

Post Office, Home Phone, Newspapers, the Church?

Today I came across this editorial on the radical steps the Post Office may need to take to survive in the emerging culture.
It comes down to this: the Post office has white elephants & sacred cows that are undermining them; practices, standards, and expectations that that are unsustainable, impractical, and will eventually lead to their [...]

Everything’s Hebel

Everything’s Hebel was my previous blog which I now use only sparingly.  Check it out for my thoughts on Post-Modernism, freedom, essentials, worldviews, homosexuality, the book unChristian by Dave Kinnamen and Gabe Lyons and much more.

Gospel: Right Brain? Left Brain? Yes!

One of the guys I follow religiously (well, not quite…) is Brian Barela of Campus Crusade @ Chico State.  About a week ago he linked to the following video and asked the question of whether our ministries were right- or left-brained (as he points out, it gets really interesting/applicable ~the 1:20 mark).

Instead I’d like to [...]