This Present Darkess is a fun little book, but it’s a novel and not a book about theology. Indeed, if you think about the theology too hard it all kind of falls apart.
Let’s do it anyway.
The book, for those of you who haven’t read it (you should; it’s a good romp if a mite predictable), [...]
Tagged Angels, Book Review, Frank E. Peretti, ReligionThe Hijacking of Jesus is a thin little book about how religion became a polarized political battle zone, and what to do about it.
The book is a curious beast, though: it has a meandering style that belies the tour-of-the-countryside method of a magazine writer, which Wakefield is. This can work in a longer piece, but [...]
Tagged Book Review, Dan Wakefield, Religion, ReviewThe Shack (Amazon Link) is this big little book that is really popular in Evangelical circles of late. Eugene Peterson compared its potential impact to Pilgrims Progress. My mom bought a copy and I read it.
This entire entry is chock full of spoilers for The Shack, so you shouldn’t read it if you care about [...]
Tagged Book Review, Literature, ReligionIf I were the President’s voice, this is the speech I would give next Wednesday.
Ladies and Gentleman, Good Evening.
Let us get straight to the point: the State of our Union is dire.
We are on a precipice and we are teetering. Our past is catching up to us, and our future is uncertain. Our politics is [...]
Tagged Obama, PoliticsI remember when I got the last payment for my Kia Rio in the mail. It was autumn 2006, and we were still living at Versailles on the Lake, which meant I picked up the mail on my way to the apartment after work.
In autumn 2006, Sonja was pregnant, we were looking to buy a [...]
Tagged Cars, Dewey, Family, Growing Up, PriusI was up until 3am last night playing Fantastic Contraption. My name is Seth and I’m an addict.
This got me started This got me interested This got me hooked. This took longer than it should have. And this one is distracting me while I try to do other things.
Tagged Fantastic Contraption, Flash Games, Games, The InternetJust returned from a short walk with my wife and daughter to drop off our absentee ballots here in Costa Mesa. There was some rain this morning, so the ground is wet and the trees are dripping, but it’s blue skies now. There was no line (it’s mid-morning; everyone is at work) but all the [...]
Tagged Costa Mesa, Election 08, Politics, VotingFor a move titled “W”, it would seem that more attention would be paid to the 43rd president.
Instead, the most interesting parts of “W” are when we get to see how those around him react to him. The narrative follows Bush the Younger (played uncannily by Josh Brolin), but in almost every scene he is–instead [...]
Tagged George W. Bush, Movie Review, movies, Oliver Stone, PoliticsA woman walks into a church. It is the kind of building evangelicals build, with minimal adornments and built to be as big as possible. It is completely empty as the preacher at the pulpit drones on.
After a while, the woman goes outside, where a huge crowd is gathered. Out of a trailer comes another [...]
Tagged dreams DavidLynch DustinThompsonObama is struggling to condense his economic policy into a sound bite. The long version:
So I asked Obama whether he thought he had been able to tell an effective story about the economy during this campaign. Specifically, I wondered, did he think he had a message that compared with Reagan’s simple call for less government [...]
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