Coming from a Calvinist Reformed background, I more or less accepted Pre-destination by default. Except for a brief flirt with free-will in college, I’ve come to agree that at least in a general sense, God has called each of us to a specific profession, geographic location, etc. I don’t think God really cares what kind [...]
Seeing as how it’s 2:30am it would probably be a good idea to be in bed, but seeing as how it is so hot in our house still, that is pretty much a useless effort. So instead I’m sitting here watching The Decemberists on Austin City Limits. I recorded it about a month ago on [...]
I’ve been playing around with taking short video clips at Vintage the last couple weeks and this is the latest iteration. I was talking with one of the graphics guys here at Mount Hermon this week and he mentioned the term “long portrait” when talking about short video clips like this. That is a [...]
As I’ve mentioned in the past, most of the photos I take during the service at Vintage are off limits, but since there aren’t any faces in some of the ones I took today I put them up on my Flickr too. This is a pretty good sample of what I do most weeks [...]
Imagine taking all of the worst things about Christianity, the Crusades, the Salem Witch Trials, the Inquisition, Manifest Destiny, the brutal subjugation of the New World and Africa, the guilt, the poor treatment of women, the persecution of men like Galileo who dared to oppose the Church on questions of science, the legalism, the closed-mindedness, [...]
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