Archive for March, 2009

Part of the Solution: School Lunch

Our school district recently had to make a change to their elementary school lunch menu. The bosco sticks, mozzarella stuffed breadsticks dipped in sauce, were replaced by pizza dippers. Apparently, the children had been removing the mozzarella cheese from the bosco sticks, wadding it into a ball, then...
March 30th, 2009 | Part of the Solution | Read More

The Purpose-Driven Centrist: The Problem with Prayer

One of the things I like about being a centrist is sometimes I can take on provocative topics. In fact, the more I try to find middle ground in controversial issues, the more I like to read form both sides. Sometimes I find that I learn more from those I agree with the least. Last summer I read a book...
March 28th, 2009 | The Purpose-Driven Centrist | Read More

Meditations: Fyodor speaks…

Watch a little 60 minutes, or read a little news these days and there’s a good chance you’ll become angry at someone, or some political party, or some bank CEO, or maybe someone named Bernie. The anger and fear that are coursing through our culture right now are dangerous at many levels....
March 28th, 2009 | Meditations | Read More

The Theology of Bread

For the longest time, I never understood why God always would refer to Himself as the “bread of life”. I, for one, don’t really eat a lot of bread, living in the United States. At home, the word “bread” makes me think of what bookends a piece of meat and some vegetables,...
March 23rd, 2009 | Social Justice | Read More

Church Hopping: St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin

In light of St. Patrick’s Day having been this week, let’s take a hop, skip, and a jump across the pond to Ireland to visit St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Location: Dublin, IrelandWebsite: www.stpatrickscathedral.ieArchitect: Various, due to reconstructionBuilt: 1191 [photo of me outside...
March 20th, 2009 | Church Hopping | Read More

Messages from Aaron

Aaron Donley, the esteemed creator of these awesome things, and a contributor to this site, is also a good friend. One time, he came up and stayed with me in Portland. We talked about the Enneagram, and tried to write a book, only he’s far funnier than me. He also calls from time to time, and...
March 18th, 2009 | Humor | Read More

Messages from Aaron

Aaron Donley, the esteemed creator of these awesome things, and a contributor to this site, is also a good friend. One time, he came up and stayed with me in Portland. We talked about the Enneagram, and tried to write a book, only he’s far funnier than me. He also calls from time to time, and...
March 18th, 2009 | Humor | Read More

Messages from Aaron

Aaron Donley, the esteemed creator of these awesome things, and a contributor to this site, is also a good friend. One time, he came up and stayed with me in Portland. We talked about the Enneagram, and tried to write a book, only he’s far funnier than me. He also calls from time to time, and...
March 18th, 2009 | Humor | Read More

Elvis Perkins in Dearland – Live

It was one of the coldest nights that I could remember. Which would not mean much – it gets cold in Seattle – but this cold, this biting, persistent cold, came only three or four days after one of the nicest weekends I have ever experienced in my time on the Puget Sound; it reached sixty...
March 16th, 2009 | Music | Read More

Dan Deacon – Bromst

Though the event occurred over forty years ago, the phrase “Dylan goes electric” is still a familiar one, fraught with heaps of meaning. Unaware that he was about to help shape the direction of both folk and rock-n-roll, Bob Dylan decided, at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, to set down his...
March 16th, 2009 | Music | Read More
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