Liminal Life

I had coffee yesterday with Jim Thomas, my pastor from The Village Chapel. He’s taking the church through the Sermon on the Mount and has hit the section where Jesus says several times “You have heard it said… But I say to you…” Jesus takes concepts like murder and adultery and says that we better [...]

I’m reading UnChristian. A book I can’t recommend highly enough. The premise of the book is that Christians have alienated ourselves from the rest of the world by acting in ways that can only be described as UnChristian. Where in the world would they get an idea like that?

My buddies in Manchester Orchestra have a video for the song “I Can Barely Breathe.” I like it a lot. Very surreal, but very beautiful. Looks like it was made by Clay Lipsky, who appears to have RED camera. Cool. Click here to check out a great collection of behind the scenes photos from the [...]

This so called Wall Street expert says Jobs needs to put either Blackberry or Windows Mobile on the iPhone if he wants it to succeed in the business world. Quick, somebody buy this guy a clue…

Betsy and I were married in Gainesville, Florida 29 years ago today. I was a soon-to-be-graduate of the University of Florida. She was a nurses aide in a labor and delivery unit. I was headed towards ministry. Campus ministry with InterVaristy to begin with, but eventually looking towards heading overseas to save the world. Betsy [...]

Still don’t know why I’m having problems with my blog, but it has nothing to do with the WordPress Theme, so I’ve moved back to the old theme. Several friends have offered to help me figure the problem out and I will be reaching out to them soon.

I’ve been getting intermittent server errors lately. I finally realized they started after I upgraded to the latest version of WordPress. It looks like there is an incompatibility in either my theme or one of my plugins. I don’t have time to figure it out right now, so I’ve changed the theme to one that [...]

I’ve already posted the story of our adoption here. But I have to write a bit more about it. Today is the fifteenth anniversary of the day we saw the picture of the four children we adopted. Fifteen years. A lot has happened in that time. Think of it this way. A few months earlier, [...]

Last month, I wrote about being allergic to my home. It’s true. But it turns out that it wasn’t my primary problem. I got a toothache a few weeks ago. Suspecting a cracked tooth, I went to the dentist. Sure enough I had a cracked molar on the upper right and it had infected the [...]

This is just too cool. It is painted on the side of a building in downtown Nashville. I have no idea why. For now I’m assuming it is talking about me. Lindy took the picture while roaming around downtown, so I haven’t even seen it yet. Gotta get down there this weekend and see it [...]