@Jonnymainstage (I would have linked to his Twitter page but I'm posting this from my phone) tweeted this thought about Catalyst West: "Are conferences just the spiritual high for adults? Like the spiritual mountain high for the youth?" I've spent a lot of time at youth camps and have seen a lot of emotional andRead more
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I'm spending this week at Catalyst West. It's a Christian conference for next generation leaders. Conferences like this feel a lot like junior high because they always remind of how nerdy and uncool I really am. Here are a few reasons why. I have lame hair. There are a lot of people with much coolerRead more
I watched a lot of movies on TV when I was younger. Looking back, though, I shouldn’t have been watching a lot of those movies. There was a lot of adult content that went way over my head even though the movies were nourishing my young, nerd soul. Here are some of those movies. SpaceballsRead more
I came up with some potential excuses for not listening to Christian music. Some people, though, might have a hard time understanding why a list like that even exists. There are people so committed to contemporary Christian music that they are like a horse with blinders on. They have tunnel vision and the bright, shiningRead more
The Internet can be a very ugly place. On Saturday, Justin Taylor posted to his blog about Rob Bell’s movement into universalism. The post centered on thoughts about Bell’s new book Love Wins: Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived. Taylor reflected on some chapters that he’d read and on aRead more
When I told my cousin that I was writing a blog about Christianity and nerdom, one of the first things he asked me was whether or not I had written about Settlers of Catan. My second post ever was about Settlers of Catan. Apparently my cousin knows what I know: Catan is to board gamesRead more