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I Hate the Church but Love Jesus
Read more: I Hate the Church but Love JesusI HATE the church, but I LOVE Jesus I hear this so much. Stay with me, I’m probably going to get a little offensive. This strange separation of faith and community is all over the place. I have gone to the same church my entire life. It isn’t a perfect church, but it’s the family…
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The Biola Queer Underground
Read more: The Biola Queer UndergroundWe, The Biola Queer Underground, are a group of like-minded LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) students and allies who have formed a private underground community in which we share our life struggles, as well as our love and support for one another. The main problems that we see in the Biola community are…
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Nationalism, Multiculturalism, and a Lunatic: How I Was Reminded to Examine with the Right Lens
Read more: Nationalism, Multiculturalism, and a Lunatic: How I Was Reminded to Examine with the Right Lens“Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.” –Albert Einstein Anders Behring Breivik looks almost ghostly. In every picture that I see of him, he appears serious and menacing and totally unrepentant. This repentance he lacks should be for the murder of seventy-seven people last year when he both detonated a bomb…
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Less Knowledge = More Power
Read more: Less Knowledge = More PowerThe Industrial Revolution changed the world. It made possible much of the wealth and prosperity that would have otherwise remained elusive. But now, it also is destroying the environment and dehumanizing laborers. The good of the Industrial Revolution obscured the bad. The consequences, though they could have been predicted (and maybe were by some) remained unforeseen by…
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That Time I Almost Became a Muslim
Read more: That Time I Almost Became a MuslimMy friend, Aaron, and I walked into a Mosque on a Sunday afternoon looking for a fight. Or at least I was. Aaron was just being nice by going with me. I was in a class that required me to dialogue with Muslims about their faith and my faith with a slant towards apologetics. As…
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Should I Have a Baby
Read more: Should I Have a BabyOne of the clients that I work with on a regular basis is autistic. This is a curse and a blessing. The curse is that for him, life is difficult. He can’t relate to other people in a typical fashion and this fact makes it hard to develop a relationship with him. The blessing is…
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Purge Weekend: Fighting Materialism in My Heart and House
Read more: Purge Weekend: Fighting Materialism in My Heart and HouseIn the past three years, I have moved three times. Each time I call upon the great physical strength of my friends – an area I am decidedly lacking in – and then offer them pizza. They don’t care about the pizza; it’s just a gesture. As we lug all of mine and my wife’s…
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Exit Through The Spiritual Gift Shop
Read more: Exit Through The Spiritual Gift ShopOn bridges, in dark alleys, under freeway overpasses, in the middle of busy streets, and anywhere else there is room, a group of visionaries are making their art. They’re doing it on the city itself. From a familiar British phone booth murdered and left bleeding to the obscure yet iconic face of André René Roussimoff…
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Hello Me, Meet the Real Me
Read more: Hello Me, Meet the Real MeI’m easy to talk to. I’m very intelligent. I’m an excellent communicator. I’m hilarious. I’m creative. These are all lies that I tell people everyday in hopes that my image isn’t sullied. I don’t tell them with my words – that would be too obviously arrogant. Instead, I only let certain parts of me show…
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Sleight of Hand: What Flannel Graphs Failed To Teach Me About Jesus
Read more: Sleight of Hand: What Flannel Graphs Failed To Teach Me About JesusWhen I was kid, I learned all about Jesus’ miracles from boards covered in flannel. An old Egyptian woman named Anna would use tiny—also flannel—cutouts of biblical characters to painstakingly illustrate the story of Jesus raising Lazarus, walking on water, or feeding the five thousand. This was great because watching Anna stick the fuzzy characters…