Now that I’ve turned in my post course papers for my summer course, I am officially free from seminary for one month. I try to avoid places in life where I’m not learning so naturally I started looking through my book library to see what I had stashed away to read…nothing. There was nothing. So [...]

We miss something remarkable when happiness is our pursuit, because happiness is a brief vapor at her very best. What’s more, there is something beautiful about getting what you get, something lovely in the mess, something divine in the ordinary. And the something is grace. Grace to smile in sickness, to dance in death, to [...]

Many people are of the opinion that churches should only sing the “hymns of the faith” (whatever that means). 3 funny (or odd) things about that: Most hymns aren’t really “hymns.” Hymns in a musical sense have no chorus, but a lot of “hymns” do. The Bible speaks about singing a new song, and I [...]

I wrote about how a Mentoring Project tweet went viral earlier this week. It was amazing to me how many people had a negative reaction to us. It just goes to show that anytime a bunch of people have access to an organization there will always be some who choose to despise everything about it. [...]

That title is a joke in case you were wondering. Some people have formulas and such for getting things to go viral, but really no one has any clue how anything goes viral. That Old Spice campaign last week in Portland? I don’t get it, but it went viral. I do some social media stuff [...]

I get the feeling that a lot of people believe the secret to their future success in life is rooted in getting involved with social media. Whether it is for a business or just a person, too many times people think they just need to start a blog, use Twitter, get on Facebook, put pictures [...]