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In just a couple weeks Nance and I will be heading off to Europe for three weeks. Being a geek I decided to see if I could find a google maps implementation which would allow me to plot our trip on a map. I found Gmaps Pedometer which allows you to plot [...]

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My cousin, Martin, and I hit one of the best geocaches I’ve ever done this morning. We set off at 6:30 in hopes of getting it done before it got too late (since I did have to go to work as well). The cache is called C’ISHMU and involved leading us through Nature’s [...]

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In my last post on McLaren and in Drew’s comment we wondered what all the big McLaren fuss is all about. He doesn’t seem to be theologically original or careful, and on the other hand he doesn’t write fiction all that great. So why the popularity? Jared gives a great account for why McLaren is [...]

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In my previous post I defended Harry Potter as a book Christians can read despite the plethora of witches, wizards, and other magical creatures it contains. In this post I want to put forth some of the benefits of reading fantasy books, specifically Harry Potter. In other words, I want to suggest why Harry Potter [...]

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Sojourners has a good op-ed piece on the roots of the recent bombings in London which navigates a middle ground between the liberal explanation (that it’s due to social forces, such as poverty) and the conservative explanation (that Islam is an inherently violent religion) with this explanation:
I suggest that the misguided young men responsible for [...]

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Everyone’s talking about Brian McLaren’s new book, The Last Word and the Word After That. So I sacrificed the $20 and thought I would give the book a shot. It was a quick read. I like the narrative genre. Very readable. If you want to get a feel for the book I’m sure you could [...]

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imagining a christian spirituality that escapes the framework of economic exchange.

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I added a new link the other day: phew. The entries are just plain entertaining, at least for me. Every so often we need a minute to lose ourselves in the mundane, sightings from someone else’s everyday. So, just sit back and check out the website and hum to yourself some radiohead: phew, for a [...]

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