I love the Internet. All of its dangers and consequences are outweighed by the ability to connect with people and to find awesome things. One example of such awesome things is the paintings you can see above. Artist Joao Dias Pires created these paintings of each Ninja Turtle surviving the death of his brothers. TheseRead more
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I was still doing a little vacationing this past weekend so Alycia and I went to a different church. It’s always weird going to a different church than your church. We know our church. We know the people. We know the liturgy. We know when to sneak out in order to miss greeting time. We’reRead more
Alycia and I are on our way home from Las Vegas today. Every time I leave Las Vegas I am now reminded of a trip I took at the end of 2010, just a few days before I started The Christian Nerd. On that trip I learned the power of social media and what it’sRead more
Every time I go camping I think about the camping scene from Star Trek V. I really should watch that movie again since I don’t remember much about it and I really should find another camping scene in sci-fi (if you can think of one please share it with me). Alycia and I did goRead more
Most of our high school students go back to school today. As I wrote about last week I used to dread the beginning of the school year. As a youth pastor, though, I love when our students go back to school. Our ministry takes a little break to recover from the summer and prepare forRead more
#vacate I’m on vacation this week, enjoying some time away with Alycia. Some people wonder why I need a vacation; they ask, “Isn’t two weeks in San Diego at summer camp vacation enough?” I don’t know if you’ve ever been a counselor at a summer camp but I can assure you it is nothing likeRead more