[Link] Down with Facebook!

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Down with Facebook: If you haven’t laughed yourself into incoherence from reading Matt Labash’s take on the social networking phenomenon, you might end up hating it as much as he does.

Sanity, sin and evil

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The Alabama shooting, like the Virginia Tech massacre before it, is sure to unleash a wave of speculation about what drove the troubled young Michael McLendon to do what he did.  Even this morning on my commute, I overheard a discussion of the killing spree in which one fellow conceded, “Since he killed that many … Read more

Sermon on the Mount

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“Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him.” (Matthew 5:1, ESV) Sea of Galilee, circa August 1999 Above is a photo I took on a hillside near the shores of the Sea of Galilee nearly a decade ago.  The cross is a shadow of … Read more

[Link] The Confession

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The Confession: I can’t imagine beign wrongly indicted for murder for 40 years. William Thomas was recently cleared by a deathbed confession of a 1967 slaying.  Scarlet letters are hard for society to erase.

25 (not so) random things about me

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It’s been going around the Facebook like wildfire, and even the inoculated among us are not immune.   So, here’s my humble contribution to the meme: 1. I don’t believe in randomness.  The irony in selecting 25 “random” things about oneself is thicker than Karo syrup, which is my favorite. 2. I grew up about 10 … Read more

Jesus, branding, and the myth of neutral messaging

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There is much to commend in Tyler Wigg-Stevenson’s Christianity Today cover story, “Jesus Is Not a Brand,” but this excerpt is especially noteworthy: The difficulty with the pro-marketing arguments, however, is the failure to recognize that marketing is not a values-neutral language. Marketing unavoidably changes the message—as all media do. Why? Because marketing is the … Read more