Grading

Grading

OK, so I’m breaking my Sabbath. For a few years Saturdays have been days of rest which I have primarily defined as non-computer days for me; no email, no blogging, no writing, no browsing, no gaming, etc. Saturdays are family

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method & jumping fences

method & jumping fences

Howard S. Becker once said, “Methodology is too important to be left to methodologists.” And designer Bruce Mau is quoted saying, “Avoid fields. Jump fences: disciplinary boundaries and regulatory regimes are attempts to control the wilding of creative life.” I’m

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What is Life?

What is Life?

A little more than 50 years ago, Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger delivered a series of lectures which – as they often do – turned into a book entitled, “What is life?” Schrödinger’s exploration of this question has been visited and

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Denial

Denial

Check out this emp interview with Michael Azzerad, Henry Rollins, and John Doe. Toward the end of the interview John Doe says something like, “if you deny those things and pretend they never happened then you have the possibility of

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14 Years

14 Years

Today Lynette and I celebrate our fourteen years of discovering our own ways of reflecting God’s relationality. Fourteen years sounds like a long time to me but it sure hasn’t felt like a long time. In fact it’s hard to

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Dying for Thirst

Dying for Thirst

Sad news out of Iraq. Five Christian missionaries – Larry Elliot, Jean Elliot, Karen Watson, David McDonnall, and Carrie McDonnall – while scouting sites for a possible water purification plant were gunned down in the northern city of Mosul… Carrie

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