Archive for December, 2007



Meagan Tubb & Shady People CD Shoot

It’s been a heck of a year. I’m closing out my 2007 blog entries with these photos from yesterday’s shoot with Meagan Tubb & Shady People.

Johnny Duran (drums) & Meagan Tubb (guitar, vocals).

Wilson (bass), Meagan, Johnny, and Jason (guitar).

Wilson, waiting for the band to assemble around the pool table.

Recent Reads: Fieldwork

About 2/3 of the way through Fieldwork the narrator says, Now I know this is going to seem like another pointless digression, but trust me.  Unfortunately by that time my trust had run out.
Sort of an anthropological murder mystery, Fieldwork tries to get to the source of a mystery by laying out the histories of […]

It’s Official

I’m league champion!

Unnecessary Movie Reviews: There Will Be Blood

After the first 25 minutes of There Will Be Blood I was ready to tear up my best of 07 list and slot it right at the top. After an hour that still seemed like a great idea. Another hour and forty minutes later it was at the top of another list right […]

Happy New Year

Somegosoftly hopes you all have a great New Year!!

Family Devotions with Unattentive Kids

Dr. J. Ligon Duncan answers some practical questions about how, what, and why to lead family devotions with little, inattentive kids:
My own answer is you start family worship as soon as possible, as soon as one is married, and continue it after children come along, no matter how young the children are (and the younger […]

Paula Nelson & Kelly Willis @ Antone’s

Paula Nelson

Paula Nelson

Paula Nelson

Paula Nelson

Paula Nelson

Paula Nelson

Eleanor Whitmore

Kelly Willis

Kelly Willis

Eleanor Whitmore

Kelly Willis

Kelly Willis
 

Kelly Willis

Eleanor Whitmore

Unnecessary Movie Reviews: The Great Debaters

If Hoosiers and Glory had a baby it would be The Great Debaters.  Straight ahead, classic filmaking, debate as sport, underdogs, and racial tension.  Oh, and Denzel Washington.  There’s nothing cute or cutting edge or revolutionary about the movie, it’s just plain good.  That’s a lot harder to do than it sounds.  My sense is […]

Church Planting Stuff

For those interested, I’ve posted some helpful resources for church planting at Church Planting Novice on Planting Manuals, Organic Church conferences, and a Missional Journal.

Christianity, A Religion of Negatives

Christianity, especially fundamentalist Christianity, is often cast as a religion of negatives. It is often quipped that Christians are known by what they are against, not what they are for. George Marsden has highlighted the particularly negative Christianity of fundamentalists by calling them “evangelicals who are angry about something.”
These negative and angry expressions of Christian […]