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So what is God like?

THIS GOD…
This God could put on eyebrows and kneecaps, tear ducts and saliva glands.
This God could be born under the tyrants Augustus and Herod.
This God could accept the smells of shepherds, and the extravagancies of political emissaries.
This God could start life a vulnerable hunted child born into scandal.
This God could grow up under foreign domination
and [...]

Posted 06 June 2007 § ‡ Comments (1) °

Attending my first rock concert

This past Saturday afternoon and evening, I spent nearly five hours at a music festival with 10,000 other people, most of them under the age of 25, who reminded me of monochrome mannequins walking amidst the brilliant colors of Spring in South Wales. Everything was black—nail polish, earrings, lipstick, t-shirts, and even the music/lyrics were [...]

Posted 29 May 2007 § Community § Personal § Wales ‡ Comments (1) °

Tipped any sacred cows lately?


Posted 22 May 2007 § ‡ Comments (3) °

Linked Word Project

Check out this online version of the Bible, including links for every phrase in the Hebrew or Greek. The project, sponsored by Bob Jones University, provides links to Strong’s Concordance, Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, and the Theological Word Book of the Old Testament. The only negative (for me) is the use of the [...]

Posted 01 May 2007 § Ministry ‡ Comments (0) °

Slavery: Part of My Ancestry (Yours, too)

On the 25th of March, 1807, the arduous and incessant labors of William Wilberforce were rewarded when Parliament finally made his proposed bill into law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire. It was nearly thirty years before slaves were emancipated in the British Empire and the government compensated slave owners, rather than the [...]

Posted 27 March 2007 § ‡ Comments (0) °

$3 Worth of God

I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please,
Not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep
But just enough to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine.
I don’t want enough of him to make me love a black man
Or pick beets with a migrant.
I want ecstasy, not transformation;
I [...]

Posted 12 March 2007 § ‡ Comments (0) °