The End of Emergent
My father in law is a beekeeper, and not that long ago I was forced at gunpoint to help round up honey from billions of seriously angry insects.  As fun as this sounds, I also had the opportunity to talk with a few of the “younger” church folk who where also in his employ. When you’re around me, the subject is going to go one of three ways…politics, religion, and pop-culture.  That’s why I go solo most of the time! So we talked about the Emergent church.  What it is and what it’s becoming. I also talked with people in my own church who are/were associated with the mov

The Ties That Bind
Lately I’ve been hip deep in books.  Prophecy, church life, language study, and even some good old comics!  Perhaps my cerebral cortex is mutating from too much Ginseng Tea.  I’ve heard stuff like that can happen in lab rats. One pile I’ve been staring at for a while is a stack of parenting books.  And by staring, I mean gazing at with red hot Kryptonian eyes that burn with so much hatred it literally sears my insides.  These are the books you love to hate.  They promise so much, yet deliver so little. It wasn’t always this way mind you.  When my wife and I had our firstborn,

BOOK REVIEW: “A Case for Amillennialism” by Kim Riddlebarger
Heretics!  Deceived by Satan!  Heathens!  Catholic dogs! Well, I made that last one up.  A Jehovah’s Witness called me that once and I’ve been dying to use it for years.   But wow…when you do a search on amillennialism, you certainly get strong opinions! I’ll be the first to admit that prior to reading “A Case for Amillennialism” by Kim Riddlebarger, I really didn’t know anythi

H1N1 Vaccine Shortage Plays On Human Nature
Whether the shortage of H1N1 vaccine is real or artificial, the ultimate outcome is still good for the drug companies.  People begin to “panic buy”, and demand increases. Cha-ching. The simple psychology of it all is fascinating.  The easiest way to make everyone want something its to create a shortage ( or at least take advantage of it ) and then have the audacity to tell them they must wait.  It likens me to a time when pare

H1N1 and The Irrelevance of the Media
I can’t go ten minutes without hearing about it.  H1N1.  It’s a total pandemic alright…a pandemic of absolute irrational panic! My goodness, out of 5 Billion humans there must be…hundreds of cases.  Truly, we are doomed. I’ll admit it right here…I work in news media.  Well, technically I’m not a journalist per se as much as I’m the poor pathetic guy who must maintain the network of misinformation.