For its entire existence the Church has affirmed the fact that both the Trinity and the incarnation ought to inform the theology of the Church and her members. That apart from Jesus Christ, the incarnate Son of God, and the scriptures became meaningless and devoid of their power. Apart from Jesus, the scriptures became just…
Battling overwhelm, numbness, and apathy with poetic journalism. It’s not a long walk from this well-lit city street to a cold gaping grave: over 14 million acres of black water. Stepping over discarded food wrappers, I head across frozen sand dunes toward the oncoming waves and find a dry spot to sit down on the lake…
Another one from the Christian journal articles aboout the summer of a lifetime. An epic road trip all over the western part of the U.S. to gather pictures for a photobook project was an absolute adventure full of obstacles and amazing experiences. However, spending a week tent camping in Yellowstone when it got down below…
Think back to the stories that have shaped or impacted you… what about those stories stood out to you? What principles could you draw from them? It is probably true that the stories that stood out had a message that resonated. It doesn’t matter what age you were when you heard or read the story,…
In his book Technopoly Neil Postman begins his dialogue with a story called the Judgment of Thamus, and uses this story to ground the premise of his book. He then moves on to examine three technological cultures which he labels as: tool based culture, technocracy, and finally the climatic pinnacle of the growing technologies, the technopoly. The…
A review of “The Technological Society” by Jacques Ellul. From the 19th century on we stand in a world entirely saturated in technique. French philosopher and theologian coins this new age of society the “Technological Society” in the 1950s. Ellul writes to current and future citizens in this new society about the complete inundation of…
Imagine for a moment that the sermon and musical worship where both taken out of the church service. Imagine then that the only way left to experience God in church is through the work of Christian artists. It doesn’t matter the form of art. It could be through paintings, poetry, or prose. It could be…
Rory Noland wrote The Heart of the Artist when he was the Worship Director at Willow Creek Church and in it includes many life experiences he’s learned from through church ministry. Through it he addresses the problem between the church and the ‘artsy type’ and why that problem exists. He provides a solution for how to not…
The sky is blue. This is an objective fact. Unless of course you happen to be color-blind or you happen to know the sky only appears to be blue—but in reality is a neutral atmosphere that refracts light. So maybe the objective truth is that the sky actually isn’t blue. But then why is it…
The main premise of Flickering Pixels is that technology has a profound impact on how we think, feel, react and, well, everything. The take away isn’t so much that technology is bad, but that we need to be aware of how it shapes us. In some ways Flickering Pixels reads like a love letter to…