Posts from the ‘reflections’ Category
Nov 30
That’s just my box talking: theology and creativity
Practically speaking, a lot of Christians think of theology like a box.
They think it forms the walls and lid for our minds and souls. The box shelters us from evil. Creativity — thinking outside the box — represents some kind of disruptive assault on all that is right and good.
We Christians have a hard time knowing when to be orthodox and when to be groundbreaking. There’s not much room for creativity when it comes to theology. It’s a set system. And that’s ok. But, it’s harmful to let our fixed theology calcify our minds.
The easy and lazy path is to be conservative in everything and fight change of every kind.
If you’re the kind of person that is threatend by change, I’m not judging you. I’m just inviting you to consider that you’re predisposition to favor the status quo (to be conservative) may be the function of other factors — your personality, your past experiences, your personal preferences.
In other words, if you don’t like Jackson Pollock, it’s not God’s fault. Read more
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Oct 17
it is the road
“This life…is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it; the process is not finished but it is going on. This is not the end but it is the road… — Martin Luther
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Strumming on the ol’ banjo…
Banjo.
It’s happening.
I opened up this banjo, tuned it, and recorded a little sample with my iPad. I don’t know many chords yet, so I picked something simple in honor of olde tyme church….
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Aug 24
When Bad Ideas Win
Steve Jobs on corporate culture:
“If you want to hire great people and have them stay working for you, you have to let them make a lot of decisions, and you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win, otherwise good people don’t stay.”
How many institutions, organizations, and causes lose good people due to frustration about bad ideas and pet projects being favored ahead of good ideas?
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Jun 21
Huntsman Campaign Typo
ABC World News snapped this photo at U.S. Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman’s campaign kick-off speech. The image shows an embarrassing typo on a press badge issued to an ABC reporter for the event.
ABC posted the image briefly to photo sharing service Instagram before hastily removing it. However, they couldn’t delete it before yours truly was able to snap this screen shot.
Can you spot the flub? Read more
the end of my world
I was waiting for the end of the world last night and I made you these flowers with a little painting app on my phone.
You’re welcome.
Consider this your little “reward” for surviving the first wave of earthquakes, zombies, and the deadly army of Justin Bieber clones. Read more
