Between the Trees

George Carlin shares some wisdom.

I’m going to miss my apartment…

and the beautiful neighborhood.

So I know I’m a little behind the times, but I finally got around to watching the new Batman movie yesterday. It was an impressively-honed piece of modern action cinema, and if you go in for that sort of thing, I’m sure you will enjoy it (or, more likely, already have). Rather than any sort [...]

In his book Soul Graffiti, Mark Scandrette speaks of “experiments in truth” - real tangible changes we make in our lives as ways of practicing what it means to live in light of Jesus’ declaration that, “the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
One change I’m going to be making this semester is to stop driving [...]

There are two ways we experience the change from dark to light. One way is to flip a switch and immediately shift from total darkness to initially-blinding light. Another is to get up early enough to see the sunrise. In the former case, the experience is immediate (and immediately forgotten). In the latter, it’s gradual, [...]

Quite be accident, I recently picked up two different history books about British decolonization, one about India and the other about Kenya. While these books have provoked me in several directions, they have both consistently reminded me of how often we as Christians fall into a secular tendency to emphasize either the ends or the [...]

“People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.“
– Felix Mendellsohn
If you haven’t yet heard the themes from Pan’s [...]

Since The Dark Knight came out a week ago there have been a number of excellent posts discussing the film, here’s a few:
Brant Hansen sparked the discussion with his culturally-incisive critique of the film (Eric linked to it already, but it’s worth linking to it again). He then followed up with a typically-Brant sarcastic apology.
Bill [...]

“There is perhaps nothing more disruptive, scandalous, or criminal than the possibility that God might actually be speaking into our history and humanity, spraying a message of subversion onto the hard brick walls of our souls, disrupting our assumptions, guiding us toward a new way of being human and inviting us into the freedom we [...]

“Nothing should be of higher value to the reflective Christian in difficult circumstances than an unqualified desire to see truth triumph. One should wish passionately that it prevail, should love it more than one’s own prestige or sense of security. Nothing will set you apart more clearly. The average person, observes Kierkegaard, ‘lives in the [...]