Again, the World Has Changed

With McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate, an historic election is assured.  In the White House our country will have either the first black man as President or the first woman (of any race) as VP.  In a world where women are still belittled and marginalized and not allowed to lead (in [...]

The World Has Changed

I just watched a little history.  What an awesome thing that the USA can go from a divided black-white-racist country (as my family is amazed at when we watch the movie Hairspray) to one where a black man has accepted the Democratic nomination to be the President of the United States.  Incredible.  What a wonderful [...]

More thoughts on Mercy and Boundin’

On Sunday I showed the animated short Boundin‘ (it is on The Incredibles DVD – it can also be seen on youtube or purchased for $1.99 on iTunes). What I failed to do was discuss (at any length) how that short had anything to do with our topic at hand: mercy.
First of [...]

King’s X Concert

I went to a King’s X concert a few days ago with two good friends. We’ve been to over ten of these shows and this was the best sounding one yet (though it was far too short). They played several new songs (from XV) and many older ones (including We Were Born to [...]

Some thoughts on mercy

This is the upcoming “lesson” for our “church” this week:
This is what I want you to do: read what I have to write, then contemplate it, pray about it, allow it (and the related text from the scripture and from Mere Christianity) to read you. Record your thoughts on paper or post comments [...]

A sad day for corn

This is a sad day.  Our corn crop has failed.  It seems that we had a pollenization problem.  We had lots of ears, some quite large, but with very few mature kernels.  Pictured here is one of the fuller ears.  Sad day indeed.

Silas Marner

I just finished reading Silas Marner. I had heard that it has been hailed as ‘one of the greatest books in the English language’ (or some such praise) so I was eager to read. At first it did not seem so great. The characters are described in some detail and the plot [...]

a good moment

A few weeks ago I went fishing in the White Mountains of Arizona with my dad and two of my younger brothers. While in my float tube on Crescent Lake, I experienced a (really!) good moment:
I just hooked a fish (on a fly I tied with a rod I built) and the fish is [...]

The Rat Race Explained

This is a little story I recently heard from my new friend Graham.  It is so good, that I thought I’d share it with you:
A boat docked in a tiny Mexicn village.  An American tourist complimented the Mexican fisherman on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took him to catch them.
“Not [...]