Archive for April, 2007
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
OK, let’s start with this endorsement:
When the imagination of a writer and the passion of a theologian cross-fertilize the result is a novel on the order of The Shack. This book has the potential to do for our generation what John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress did for his. It’s that good!
Eugene Peterson, Professor Emeritus Of Spiritual [...]
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
all the lonely people,
where do they all come from?
all the lonely people,
where do they all belong?
So, what can be going on in the mind of a 23 year-old recluse when he decides to go out and indiscriminately take the lives of as many innocents, nearly all totally [...]
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
I think our creative stories-some would call them myth, fantasy, legend– come from an instinctive connection with the Bible and its story. Consider a letter written in the first century:
You have not come to a physical mountain, to a place of flaming fire, darkness, gloom, and whirlwind… No, you have come to … the [...]
Saturday, April 7th, 2007
Global thinking can only do to the globe what a space satellite does to it: reduce it, make a bauble our of it…If we could think locally, we would take far better care of things than we do now. The right local questions and answers will be the right global ones. The Amish question “What [...]
Friday, April 6th, 2007
Jody and I are moving ever closer to publishing a book titled, tentatively, “’Tween Two Worlds—the submitted life of a pilgrim warrior.†It seems to us that this blog might make the perfect venue for releasing bits of the manuscript, and then, later for use as the site for the book’s web presence. We’re told [...]