health care- are we asking too much?

“Americans’ expectations for medical care are too high, and the resolve of politicians to avert a health care crisis is too low.” -Dr. Timothy Johnson this past week at North Park University (he is an ABC medical corresspendent, with both an M.Div. from North Park and a MD.) The article that contains this quote goes [...]

American Empire

for your consideration…

everyone is nice

I live in a bubble, and it’s starting to get sticky in here.
I’m about to start seminary in a week and a half, I live in seminary housing, and I work at a church part-time. Can you guess which bubble I live in?
I moved across the country and directly into my bubble. And there are [...]

Re: Jesus Loves You

Feel free to explain…

The Style of Subversion

There is a great series going on over at Jesus Manifesto written by the founder and editor, Mark Van Steenwyk. I have some great admiration for this guy, and all of his writing is really good, but this is some of his best. Here are the links to the three part series:
The Style of Subversion: [...]

an old e-mail

life can hurt
you can allow it to
it’s ok for life to hurt all on it’s own
not because of any tragic event
not because of any self destructive habit
just because life does hurt
when i think of you, i almost believe that you feel life in a much more real way then me
my life should hurt, ache, make [...]