"The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors."
— Chuck Palahniuk in Haunted
November 28, 2011
March 11, 2011
"For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone. I have to wash out and flatten my soup cans. And account for every drop of used motor oil. And I have to foot the bill for nuclear waste and buried gasoline tanks and landfilled toxic sludge dumped a generation before I was born."
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club.
August 16, 2010
Book List
Upcoming books I plan on reading
Almost Christian: What the faith of our Teenagers is Telling the American Church
Kenda Creasy Dean
Mad Church Disease: Overcoming the Burnout Epidemic
Anne Jackson, Craig Groeschel
Why We’re Not Emergent: by Two Guys Who Should Be
Kevin DeYoung, et al
Kinda Christianity: A Generous, Fair, Organic, Free-Range Guide to Authentic Realness
Ted Kluck, et al
Always looking for suggestions for the next batch.
May 15, 2010
April 19, 2010
Books on Deck
Here’s what I’ve got on deck for my reading list:
A.W. Tozer:
The Purpose of Man: Designed to Worship
The Radical Cross: Living the Passion of Christ
Jim Wallis
The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith and Politics in a Post Religious Right America
Thomas Frank
What’s the Matter with Kansas Anyways: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
Neil Boortz et. al.
Fair Tax, The Truth: Answering the Critics
March 16, 2010
March 13, 2010
"Lukewarm people feel secure because they attend Church, made a profession of faith when they were twelve, were baptized, come from a christian family, vote republican or live in America. Just as the prophets in the Old Testament warned Israel they were not safe just because they lived in the land of Israel, so we are not safe just because we wear the label of Christian or because some people persist in calling us a “Christian” nation"
— Francis Chan, in Crazy Love
February 8, 2010
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