I’m back to Mudhouse Sabbath again, for about the zillionth time this year. I think this may be one of the most influential books I’ve ever read. Oh, wait! It’s January. So this is only the first time I’ll have gone on about it this year. Excellent. Well, then. Without further ado… For those of…
today’s an Alexander day a day that’s full of wishes and all that i can think of now to rhyme is stupid: fishes?! so let’s abort the rhyming thing; revert to random thinking… it’s the kind of day when your pants don’t fit right when the coffee you really wanted you spilled down your…
I have been tagged in a meme – based on a book entitled unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity…and Why It Matters. I haven’t read the book yet, tho my friend Chris and I saw it on a bookshelf at Barnes and Noble not too long ago, and he commented (without having…
I recently found myself unexpectedly challenged by something I’ve read. It’s from a book by Peter Rollins called How (Not) To Speak of God. First, this (he’s talking here about traditional forms of apologetics and why the emergent church doesn’t embrace them): “…if someone is convinced that there is a place where they will…
I’m reading a great book by Lauren Winner called Mudhouse Sabbath – it’s excellent stuff, really makes you think about how you live and why – and the chapter I read today was on the Hebrew practice of hachnassat orchim, or hospitality, and how it should/could fit into the Christian life. Basically the gist of the chapter was…
