I don’t know what is happening, but more people connected to my family have died. Curiously, they are from mine and my brother’s little league days. The first one was a mom of a boy on my brother’s team. She had gotten cancer toward the end of his last season years ago. I guess she […]
Since it’s Thanksgiving in the US today, I just thought I would express thanks for certain things in my life. For me, personally, there is so much to be thankful for. One thing that blows me away and humbles me and makes me aware of a picture of existence larger than my own is the […]
Just a quick note on an interesting article I saw at Gamespot. I consider this to be more a sociological than a technological or game-related occurrence. EA has released and is marketing (to my surprise, frankly) the game Medal of Honor: Rising Sun to Japanese gamers. If you check it out, you’ll find the game […]
In my last entry I touched on the idea that we affect each other very much, and I picked up this concept in a Bible class I teach. As I said previously, the blast radius of a suicide is wide, deep, and scarring. And the questions and the paradox of being alone in the midst […]
I am in a state of shock and sadness at news I heard late last night. A friend of my brother’s at Westmont named Wes killed himself yesterday, and I’m not quite sure why. Suicide is so serious and so sad for me. It’s just hard to even react beyond a welling up of tears. […]
I’ve been wondering, for quite some time, where (and in what ways) the reading of Scripture is to fit in to Christian life. For a while now, the idea of a “devotion time” has been the normal way for one to appropriate Scripture, at least in Protestant (primarily Evangelical, I would suppose) circles.
But what of […]