Serving Bread

We (CSUN [tag]InterVarsity[/tag]) are off to [tag]Catalina Island[/tag]. This is our first [tag]Chapter Camp[/tag] in five years. These types of conferences are fantastic in building the community, having fun, and studying God’s word. Teaching the word of God at Catalina is one of my favorite (top 3) parts of campus ministry. Students will learn and [...]

It’s not too often that our favorite ‘evangelical’ speaks, but when [tag]Bono[/tag] does, we hip evangelicals should listen. His column in “Time Magazine” last week reiterated his commitment to the poor through calling Europe to do what it said it would do fifty years ago (I was a history major and was never really familiar [...]

On my family’s website, we post lots of pictures of our daughter–mostly as a way for family to see her growing up. I title the pictures with cute tags like, “Cute Layla” and “Layla Cutie”–very unique identifications. The other day, when I was looking through the logs of people who visit the website, I noticed [...]

“What is REAL?” asked the [Velveteen] Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?””Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to [...]

Fifth in my countdown of favorite, must-have freeware applications. Check out the previous review. So with [tag]digital photography[/tag], most pictures probably need just a little bit of editing — maybe sharpening, removal of red-eye, or crop out that annoying person who thought sticking out his tongue while you and your significant other are capturing a [...]

Today, the Church celebrates [tag]Gregory the Illuminator[/tag], Bishop and Missionary of [tag]Armenia[/tag]. History says that he was responsible to convert the local pagan King, who was so excited for his newfound religion, that he made it a national religion. Thus, the Church was birthed in Armenia in 301 AD, making it the oldest Church in [...]

Random and not-so-random articles and posts I have come across in the past week. For an excellent article on the origins of the war/genocide/conflict in [tag]Darfur[/tag], check out the article from the Atlantic Monthly. It shows how the climate change has affected human relations. Skip the main article on [tag]global warming[/tag] (by Gregg Easterbrook). I [...]

I was raised in the Presbyterian tradition, so [tag]John Wesley[/tag]‘s theology should probably irritate me (especially if I were a pure Calvinist). I like Wesley. Some of the spiritual practices and life experiences of Wesley have drawn me to him over the past several years. I have been particularly intrigued by his response to failure, [...]

(Part V in an occasional series. Read Part I, Part II, Part III, and Part IV) Today marks the four year anniversary of our [tag]war[/tag] in [tag]Iraq[/tag]. Four years ago, American and coalition forces launched an air strike and ground offenses to de-arm Saddam’s Iraq. Under the (false) premises that Saddam was storing [tag]weapons of [...]

Fourth in my countdown of favorite, must-have freeware applications. Check out the previous review. Adobe’s Photoshop is a fantastic program that costs a lot of money. It has a lot of features that I don’t care for and I would not be surprised if you can minor in “Photoshop” at some university because of its [...]