rise above plastics pledge

ideation…
If I got paid to ideate, I would be a wealthy man. I mean for real…

finding your story…
Friday, I got the opportunity to teach a 90-min seminar on Story to  Iowa’s Inter Varsity team in Cedar Falls, IA.  The seminar was entitled, “Finding Story:  In speaking, preaching, teaching and fundraising.  If your interested you can click here to download my notes in PDF form.  I thought I’d write a little about how I plan and write a 90-minute interactive seminar… This may not be that interesting, unless you are a writer/speaker… Ok, so in this particular case I had less than 24 hours to put together the seminar, as it the invitation was confirmed on

the gospel as fairy tale…
The last of three ruminations on Frederick Buechner’s, “Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, & Fairy Tale.” Over the past few days, I’ve written on the Gospel as comedy and the Gospel as tragedy, specifically as it relates to truth. Today, I’m turning my attention to a fantasy and the world of make believe… Gospel as Fairy Tale Once upon a time, which is to say at a time beyond time, or at a different kind of time altogether from the kind the clock measures, or at a time that is n

the gospel as comedy…
The second of three ruminations on Frederick Buechner’s, “Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, & Fairy Tale.” Yesterday, I wrote on the Gospel as tragedy, and introduced the idea of Gospel as story, specifically as it relates to truth. Today, I’m turning my attention to a lighter side of the Gospel… Gospel as Comedy And of course, there is the comedy, the unforeseeableness, of the election itself. Of all the peoples, he chose the Jews, who as somebody has said are just like everybody else only more so — more religious than anybody w

the gospel as tragedy…
The first of three ruminations on Frederick Buechner’s, “Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, & Fairy Tale.” The Gospel as Story Only in embracing the full story of the Bible, can we fully discern the redemptive aspects of Jesus’ life, death and resurrection. The full story of the Gospel encompasses all manner of conflict [...]