Tag Archives: cultural engagement
big city adventure
tonight i go to bed a kansan. tomorrow night i will sleep as a missourian for the first time ever. when i took the job at watkins mill, we planned to move to missouri to give me a shorter drive. … Continue reading
halloween isn’t so bad after all. i guess.
let’s be honest. halloween is about my least favorite “major” holiday. (assuming you don’t count ones that nobody really cares about except for the sale at nebraska furniture mart, or the ones created by hallmark.) for the past week, the … Continue reading
inconvenient truth about Jesus camp
as oh-so-cleverly alluded to in my title today, i recently watched the documentaries an inconvenient truth and Jesus camp. (those links are amazon associate links, which will make me a very modest commission should you choose to purchase via my … Continue reading
grammar snob (reboot)
since publishing the first version of this post in february 2010, i continue to lament the deterioration of my mother tongue into barely-functional grunts and blathering. further, i find myself using the very same words i would condemn others for … Continue reading
mile marker prophets
1,600 miles in a car over the course of 5 days – with 1,400 of it coming in only 2 of them – gives one a lot of time to think. After heading to Manhattan, KS, for my brother’s college … Continue reading
letters to God (movie review)
Yet another “Christian” movie opens today. Letters to God is inspired by the true story of a young boy fighting brain cancer. His mom Maddie (played by Robyn Lively), already a cancer widow, can barely keep it together to care … Continue reading
walk like an elf
Are you more like an Elf or a Dwarf? I’m physically more of an Elf. Not the silly mini-beings of far-northern toy factories, cobblers’ shops, or hollow cookie-oven trees. I’m talking real elves like Legolas. The type that is tall, … Continue reading
organic junk food
I have seen recently why so many refer to Whole Foods Market as “Whole Paycheck.” I could also call it “Whole Afternoon.” There are a lot of great products there. I’ve become quite the connoisseur of all things organic lately. … Continue reading
uncommon courtesy
Has it been long enough? Can I post again about the gym? I was hoping that at our pristine new gym location (open for less than 3 weeks), with enthusiastic staff and members reticent to leave things strewn about, we … Continue reading
validation
You are great. You are amazing! We don’t hear things like that very often, do we? Our community group met tonight, and we were in charge of providing the goodies as well as the lesson. I had seen the video … Continue reading
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