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Archive for March 2012
Acts 29 Bootcamp: Dallas 2012 | An Overview of Day 1
Yesterday, my good friend and I flew down to Dallas, Texas for the 2012 Acts 29 Dallas Bootcamp taking place today (3/28) until Friday (3/30). Acts 29 is a church planting network committed to starting new (i.e. ‘planting’) churches that are committed to proclaiming and living out the good news of Jesus Christ as their central message … Continue reading
Modern History Monday: Robert Frost
March 26th marks a great anniversary in American prose that holds significant weight; the birth of Robert Frost in 1874. This poet stands at the center of the American literary canon. Toying with the political, the aesthetic, the secular and the spiritual in a way that only the influence of the American past could bring … Continue reading
The Shins on KEXP | New Album: Port of Morrow
One of the most anticipated albums of the year came out this week. The Shin’s first album in 5 years, “Port of Morrow” has been out since Tuesday and so far, everything that I have heard from it has been fantastic. Their recent KEXP set contains some great new tracks from James Mercer and the … Continue reading
Modern History Monday: Jim Bakker Resigns in Shame (1987)
I’ll just come right out and say it: preachers shouldn’t have television shows! You know, maybe some could handle it but since the advent of television, televangelists made fools out of themselves and the Christian religion time and time again. And the most famous of those was Jim Bakker. On this day 25 years ago, … Continue reading
Andrew Bird | Break It Yourself
Andrew Bird has outdone himself with his newest album, Break It Yourself. Some artists need to constantly reinvent themselves to keep up with their progression as artists, but not Bird. The new album is, in the absolutely best way possible, more of the same. The first track starts out with that gentle, almost natural violin … Continue reading
Modern History Monday : Jack Kerouac’s Birthday
Alright, so you might be wondering why I am writing Modern History Monday on a Tuesday. Well, in all honesty, yesterday was much too busy to crank out even a brief historical synopsis, but ‘Modern History Tuesday’ just doesn’t have the same ring to it. Anyhow, this last Monday (March 12th) marks the 90th birthday … Continue reading
Stephen Prothero on Religious Literacy
If you have not yet read Stephen Prothero’s 2008 book Religious Literacy, you simply must. Prothero is the Chair of the Religious Studies Department at UMass and expresses a concern for the state of the religious literacy of the American landscape. Unlike many who come to this conclusion, Prothero simply seeks to show the facts, rhetoric … Continue reading
Modern History Monday: Korda Shoots Che Guevara
By March 5th, 1960, the Cuban Revolution was well underway when a Belgian military transport exploded in the Harbor of Havana, Cuba. A host died and the great Marxist revolutionary Fidel Castro spoke later that day at an impromptu memorial service for departed, when, as the story goes, Che Guevara poked his head out for … Continue reading
The Decemberists on Austin City Limits
The Decemberists used to kind of bore me, but with 2011′s The King Is Dead, they almost instantly became one of my favorite troupes. And if there is a better live combination in today’s rock and roll than Colin Meloy, Gillian Welch and Sara Watkins, then I have yet to hear it. Their most recent … Continue reading
Why College Students are REALLY leaving the Church | A Response
CNN Religion Blog: “Don’t Blame College for Young People Leaving Christianity Let me start out by saying this is a frustrating article. First, I find Smith’s “solution” to be a theologically thin argument for a social justice driven pseudo-piety and I am deeply saddened by the moral blame game that these “Christian” politicians using to … Continue reading
