only wonder understands

. . . but I’m too busy. Aaaagggghhh!

I’ve been re-reading David Halberstam’s book, “The Children,” which is (I think) one of the best overviews of the Civil Rights movement. As I was reading, I discovered that yesterday was the forty-fourth anniversary of the lunch-counter sit-ins here in Nashville. The leaders of these sit-ins would go on to provide much of the leadership […]

My father sent me this, which I share with his permission: I found Jen Lemen’s comment interesting and pondered over it all day., but I think it did not go far enough. The scuffle for “Coolness” goes even farther; the lust for the next cooler thing stifles in depth thinking on too many levels. Are […]

My father has been bugging me to change the title image. White bread didn’t seem to fit my writing, politics, or theology. So instead we’ll have the seven wonders of the world…

Jen Lemen offers the following insight on her blog, an insight that I hope folks will lean toward: my point is this: maybe in our rush to be all things cool and new, we are missing some very old ways to uncover christ in our midst, and i include myself here. maybe in our desire […]

In this ongoing discussion regarding the definition of the “emerging church,” several have noted a discomfort with the name. Signposts offers a good analysis of the problems. The “emerging” label has been misused by folks as it has been transformed from a description of a desire into a brand. Although I wasn’t around when some […]

During the past few days, there has been some discussion going around the blogs on the nature of the “emerging church” movement. Folks like Andrew Jones have been attempting to define what this is all about. Others like Alan Creech say that it’s not a movement, but rather a loose way of thinking that is […]

There is a real tendency for many of us to get caught up in planning, visioning, thinking toward the future. I know that I get caught up in this mind set quite often. I start leaning toward the future, anticipating what’s to come, worrying about the “what if.” This isn’t a bad thing necessarily. In […]

There is a real tendency for many of us to get caught up in planning, visioning, thinking toward the future. I know that I get caught up in this mind set quite often. I start leaning toward the future, anticipating what’s to come, worrying about the “what if.” This isn’t a bad thing necessarily. In […]

Some day I’m going to have to head out to California to have lunch with Hugo. He keeps raising important issues that I agree with. His latest post on the Janet Jackson issue is especially significant: Hey, MTV: Simulated sexual assault is not funny. It isn’t sexy. And when a white man does it to […]

Some day I’m going to have to head out to California to have lunch with Hugo. He keeps raising important issues that I agree with. His latest post on the Janet Jackson issue is especially significant: Hey, MTV: Simulated sexual assault is not funny. It isn’t sexy. And when a white man does it to […]

Hugo’s question continues to nag me, so as a way of avoiding my sermon, I’m going to write here instead. One of the reason’s I responded as I did to the lottery question in my earlier post relates to a strategic decision that the leaders of the anti-lottery campaign made in organizing our work. This […]

Hugo makes a good point in a comment on my last post. He writes: One teensy quibble. You wrote: “I was against the lottery in Tennessee for issues of social justice, not reasons of morality.” I think that even making such a distinction is a bit of a false choice. The fact that it is […]

The other day, one of my church members came to me and let me know that she had been reading this blog. That has happened a lot in the past week — something that was a bit of a surprise to me since no one ever gives me feedback on my thoughts (there is a […]

Tomorrow, I will lead another funeral service, the first one for 2004, and the fourth since my appointment at Antioch UMC four months ago. This saint is Bernice Eaves, a person who was homebound when I was appointed and who I only met in person twice. And yet, she is one of my flock, one […]

I ran into some problems with the Macromedia Central reader not updating, but those seem to have worked themselves out. In the mean time, I checked out Bottom Feeder, which was listed on the Atom site as compatible. It’s not — it reads “normal” xml fine, but has problems with Atom formatted xml. For those […]

I’m finished with the sermon . . . whew! Now, it’s 12:30 a.m. I’m watching a press conference via the web on NASA TV about the succesful landing of the Opportunity Rover on Mars. I browsing the news from Yahoo and checking for updates on the blogs I follow. Remember my first subscription to Compuserve […]

I’m finished with the sermon . . . whew! Now, it’s 12:30 a.m. I’m watching a press conference via the web on NASA TV about the succesful landing of the Opportunity Rover on Mars. I browsing the news from Yahoo and checking for updates on the blogs I follow. Remember my first subscription to Compuserve […]

Yes, I need to be finishing the sermon but after reading Jordan’s and other’s ravings on using RSS, I went and downloaded Macromedia’s new aggregator. It looks pretty cool, and is ATOM compatible (which is the new blogger format). I’ll let you know what I think.

Yes, I need to be finishing the sermon but after reading Jordan’s and other’s ravings on using RSS, I went and downloaded Macromedia’s new aggregator. It looks pretty cool, and is ATOM compatible (which is the new blogger format). I’ll let you know what I think.