The Stamp Act is hailed as one of the sparks which lead to the American Revolution. Colonists resented Parliament enforcing such taxes without their consent, and felt their rights as English Citizens were being trampled. So, for the first time, the Colonies began to communicate together in an effort to coordinate the defense of those…
Tag: humor
Applied Imagination
Today’s post is a short story which takes place in the world I created for a novel I began several years back. One day, I’ll sit down and finish it just so I can say, “I wrote a novel.” It’ll never be published, but I can say I did it. The elevator door opened and…
Journey theme
I love the metaphor of a “spiritual journey.” We move from one place – be it physical, spiritual, or a combination of the two – and wind up somewhere else entirely. This sense of journey is present in a good many pastors (and other Christians) who come into a church and quickly discover that they…
The right tools
I love this iconic image of my wife and son doing some homework on his iPad. Looking at it got me thinking about how we can use the massive amount of information found on Internet to communicate, to research some noble endeavor, shop, and to find out that, “Beam me up Scotty” was never actually…
Church of intensely laid-back whacky disciples
As last night’s deacons meeting our community garden was brought up. It’s produced a yield that we couldn’t have possible imagined, which has lead to the garden getting a tad over-run. It was brought up that the garden has been awesome, but we needed to lay out a plan to really put the “community” in…
Painfully Hopeful 