Last week I wrote a post about the polarizing nature of social media. I wrote that instead of clinging to the extremes of any issue, we need to be willing to listen to other people. Humility enables us to listen to another person, even if we don’t agree with them and even if we’re notRead more
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Another week of summer, another week at summer camp. This week I am at Hume Lake for junior high camp. I love Meadow Ranch, Hume’s junior high camp, and I love hanging out with junior high students. They’re so weird, so awkward and not yet too cool for school. Junior high students are game forRead more
Scott is at junior high camp and Ron is in New York, but they’ve still got a new episode of The Christian Nerd Podcast. In “Nerd News” they take a look at Star Trek Beyond and Disney banning selfie sticks. In “From the Blog” they get upset at the polarization of Facebook and talk about howRead more
Tomorrow is the Fourth of July!!! On the podcast Ron and I have been talking a lot about issues that have divided this great country of ours. And in spite of those issues and problems I have with our political system, the United States still is a great country. I am so grateful for theRead more
I know a lot of adults who say that they don’t really have a best friend. I don’t know if they think a best friend is something for children. I feel badly for people who don’t have a best friend, though, because I’ve got two! Today is my best friend, Nate’s, birthday. We’ve known eachRead more
I had plans to watch a lot of movies over the past two months. I previewed five of the movies that came out earlier this summer and had totally planned on seeing most of them. It’s been a busy summer, though, and I only managed to see Avengers: Age of Ultron. Jurassic World is theRead more