What I Walked Away With After Seeing Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland.”
Some friends and I saw “Alice in Wonderland” last night.  I’ll see just about anything in 3D right now.  But let me go on the record: I really have a hard time liking anything Tim Burton does.  Just not a fan.  The exceptions [...]

Scot McKnight reviewed Brian Mclaren’s new book “A New Kind of Christianity” for Christianity Today.  You can find it here: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2010/march/3.59.html?start=4
An excellent review.  (I haven’t read the book yet. Not sure if I will.)
I think McKnight’s last sentence or two were really cool.

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I feel kinda bad, because every time there’s a big to-do about something, I usually come down on the end everyone else is attacking.  And I objectively assess the situation, to make sure I’m not just being antagonistic.  This is another one of those situations.
I’m not a big Driscoll fan. 
But I was also not a [...]

Ok.
This guy I don’t know and have never heard of has written a book I haven’t read and haven’t heard of till now. His name’s Joe Kovacs and the book is “Shocked by the Bible.”  I think.
So I find this link to an interview with him about his book.
Here’s the interview: http://www.gnmagazine.org/issues/gn87/shocked-by-the-bible.htm
I don’t get it.  [...]

There are way too many times in my life where I just don’t feel like a Christian.
I’ve noticed two different flavors of this feeling.  There’s the feeling that to follow Christ is just too hard a road: that his commands and what is expected of a Christian is just too much. (And let’s not pretend [...]

I’ve decided, for fun, to paraphrase the Bible in a very rough, probably quite bad, iambic perameter (a la something like “Paradise Lost).  Leave a comment and tell me what you think (don’t be too harsh! it was just for fun and I’ve never written in the form before, and it’s first draft!):
Seven Days
 
“Look back, [...]

Jay Bakker and I had an exchange on Twitter.  He talks about it here: http://www.revolutionnyc.com/god-crushed-in-haiti/
My response:

Jay, I wouldn’t normally post on here. I understand I can come across as bitter and antagonistic (I very well may be). I’m working on that. But I’m the “lol” guy you mention in your sermon here. I just wanted [...]

I mean, number 1, why get all outta sorts ’cause someone says “impactful?”  And, number 2, Pirate Christian gets the win, ’cause it certainly is a pot/kettle situation.
FTW.

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Aside from how cool a band name that would make, gonna talk a bit about this new “Haiti’s earthquake is God’s judgment” deal going on w/ Pat Robertson.
First off, I think it’s utterly contemptible we even have to talk about it. There’s really only one reason I feel ok talking about it, but I’m not [...]

“I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being, with the soul of a clown, which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.” – Jim Morrison
I’ve always felt that this quote by Jim Morrison aptly described me. 
I’m a pot-stirrer.  I’ve tried to fix this in times past, but I’m not even so [...]