Worst of all, while it opens up a radical prospect by acknowledging the authenticity of other voices, postmodernist thinking immediately shuts off those other voices by ghettoizing them within an opaque otherness, the specificity of this or that language game. It thereby disempowers those voices (of women, ethnic and racial minorities, colonized peoples, the unemployed, [...]
Eh, this was all written via my iPhone and transferred over to wordpress, forgive any typos/grammatical errors/punctuation errors. I didn’t check for them (not that I ever really do). I’ve been away for a while; I find myself distracted often by books, music. These two distractions I don’t mind so much… they’re productive and I [...]
Beginning tomorrow, I’m going to launch a bit of a side project. This next year should be an interesting one for me, and I want to document it, so I’ll be taking part in something called “project 365.” Each day of the year I’ll be taking a photo and putting it online, keeping track of [...]
I’m back. I think the time off was much needed and incredibly beneficial. I think you’ll find a (not so) subtle difference in the content, which will begin tomorrow. I’ve changed in many ways, yet still remain connected and interested in the emergent expression of faith I was a part of before my world blew [...]
Sometimes I get tempted to saw forget it and walk away from the whole God thing. When I say “sometimes” I mean: quite often. It’s not the inconsistencies within systematic religion that makes me want to give up, nor is it my opinion of (current) Biblical accuracy. Not even the hypocrisy within the church. Not [...]
I’ve always written about that which was currently going on in my life. It’s easy to tap into that source and come up with plenty to talk about, it got me through my first two years of blogging, but now… now I’m stuck. What if what’s going on in my life isn’t something that needs [...]
This past week Becky and I went to hang out with her best friend, a recent grad of Lee University, and some of the people that her friend has grown close to over her college career. It’s kind of awkward writing this post, as some of them will read it, but it’s on my mind [...]
To make this completely straightforward, I actually “go” to a “church” nearly every Sunday, and play guitar (and occasionally sing…) for a Fourth and Fifth grade section of the childrens ministry. I do not, however, attend church services. The last time I did, it was on a whim after we got done playing for the [...]
You’ll have to excuse my absence last week, something about being in the hospital kind of messes up your ability to follow a schedule. I’ll blame my not posting this yesterday on the ER visit I made Friday morning (around 4 AM), I had some sort of reaction to something and spent all night from [...]
Well, considering I missed posting this at all last week, I felt I really needed to make sure I did it this week. Thus, here I am, battling through my cold, giving you the Saturday Roundup. First up, if you haven’t checked out Open Table Theology yet, please give us a look. Blake did an [...]