What we’ve been up to this year Well, it didn’t seem like a lot until I tried to summarize it all a few weeks ago. Words escaped me and time as well with the holidays come and gone. Welcome, New Year. Below are some of the pictures that highlight our past year. There are soContinue reading “Justice Family Update/Photo Dump – January 2022”
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Top 10 Books of 2021
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self – Carl F. Trueman It has been since the early summer, but this book helped put into philosophical and practical terms where I find myself. This cultural moment so to speak. The book highlights the intellectual ideas and histories that have led us to our current moment.Continue reading “Top 10 Books of 2021”
Grief and Desire
Grief is a universal human experience. To live on this earth (in this current era) as a human is to experience loss and walk through grief. And often this experience hits us unawares, surprises us, disrupts us, or more or less blind sides us. My own work as a pastor is often helping people understandContinue reading “Grief and Desire”
Justice Family Update: 2020 Recap
Big Moves to Small Town (Yep, that’s our new pad!) Whoa. What a year! Trying to summarize our experience of 2020 is a little like 2020 itself: difficult. Remember January 2020? Cold, snowy, icy, but normal. If you can remember back that far, Bethany and I were busy discerning whether or not to plant aContinue reading “Justice Family Update: 2020 Recap”
Top 10 Books in 2020
Top 10 Books of 2020:10) Whatever You Do: Six Foundations for an Integrated Life – Ed. Luke Bobo This past year I had the distinct blessing of being connected to an organization called Made to Flourish. This organization empowers pastors and church to integrate faith, work, and economic wisdom for the flourishing of their communities.Continue reading “Top 10 Books in 2020”
Political Paradigm: Amazon and Your Vote
“Your vote counts.” “Vote to create your future” “A pandemic won’t stop me from voting.” Save the world. “Voting is you exercising your citizenship.” “The character of the nation is at stake.”
Your vote will (probably) be counted, but I am not certain it will matter. I am certain it won’t save the world, let alone democracy.
Tech as JUST a Tool: #3 Baptizing Assumptions (Post #6)
Assumption 3: Baptizing Cognitive Frameworks Baptizing your computer might kill you. I often hear people say, “culture is not our enemy” (we being the church in this statement) but that we do need to engage, redeem, celebrate, and even baptize culture. This statement is, on the one hand, a refreshing reprieve from a generation orContinue reading “Tech as JUST a Tool: #3 Baptizing Assumptions (Post #6)”
Tech as JUST a Tool: Two Big Assumptions (Post #5)
Amazon and Google (Alphabet) had combined marketing expenditures worldwide in 2019 of over 37 billion. BILLION. This matters because I as a Western modern American Christian might have a blind spot for the technologies marketed to us daily, which, to be clear, isn’t the worst thing in the world. I own a lot of AppleContinue reading “Tech as JUST a Tool: Two Big Assumptions (Post #5)”
Tech is JUST a Tool: What’s unique about tech? (Post #4)
While digital technology resembles tools in important ways – it also has some unique characteristics that set it apart. This liminal space of difference is often overlooked as the Church navigates through our cultural moment of media saturation, device proliferation, and Covid-19. Legitimately, the Church has seen technology as a tool to help bridge this current challenge. Just as legitimately, continued adoption and usage of digital tech in the church needs attention, interrogation, and collective imagination for a responsible ethic with digital technology.
Tech is JUST a Tool: Intellectual Ethics and Debate (Post #3)
Tools can be thought of in a limited way as our technologies, how humanity exerts and expresses its will over surroundings and circumstances. Nicholas Carr in his stellar work, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, helpfully examines the formative shape of our tools and I want to share briefly what IContinue reading “Tech is JUST a Tool: Intellectual Ethics and Debate (Post #3)”
To Be Human 