Archive for July, 2008



Culture Making

Andy Crouch’s book, Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling, is now available. Andy is an editor for Christianity Today and is a creative, insightful author. I had the privilege of reading an early form of this book, which was very good. Though his thesis is not without critique, his message is one that Evangelicals […]

Learning from the Demon Possessed

Jesus was radical, a spiritual Van Helsing, if you will. But instead of vanquishing only evil and preserving good, Jesus vanquished evil and restored the broken. When arriving on the shores of the Gerasenes, Jesus was immediately welcomed by a zombie-like, demon-possessed, Houdini kind of being who lived among the graves. His name was Legion […]

San Diego County Fair

I’m only a month late telling you about my day at the fair. It’s held at the Del Mar Racetrack grounds. We got to park for free and ride on the top of an open double decker bus. I beat MK at that game where you roll the balls and make the horse move. I […]

Photos from the Dustin Welch Hoot Show (Momo’s - July 21, 2008)

Dr. Adonis Vidu Becomes Associate Professor of Theology at the Hamilton Campus
Dr. Adonis Vidu (Ph.D., University of Nottingham) will move from Romania this August to join the faculty of Gordon-Conwell (Hamilton campus) as Associate Professor of Theology. Dr. Vidu has written two books: Postliberal Theological Method (Paternoster, 2005; Wipf & Stock, […]

Fight Club, for real

more about “E:60 - Fight Club - ESPN Video“, posted with vodpod

HT: Buzzard

Cool Radiohead Video

Check out this really cool Radiohead video from one of the many great songs off In Rainbows, “House of Cards.”

HT: SM

Riding along in my automobile…

In the past 11 days I’ve driven from Austin to Midland twice. That’s a lot of time alone in the car to think. In case you’re ever in a similar situation, here are a few of the things I pondered:

How long does a particular cloud last before it vaporizes or blows away or […]

Eckhart Tolle on Religion

Perhaps you’ve seen this book in your local bookstore, a #1 New York Times bestseller that was recently added to the Oprah Book Club. Oprah has taken quite a liking to Tolle’s A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose. She comments: “I keep this book at my bedside. I think it’s essential spiritual […]

Drew Smith’s new CD is set to be released in September 2008. Here are a few promo shots we did at the Continental Club recently.