Its 4:00 in the morning and we’re in a Delhi hotel. Jet lag is a killer. I can’t go back to sleep. So I quietly type.
I don’t think India ever sleeps. Already the streets are filled with noice. And I can hear birds outside my window. Its a surreal thing to wake up on the [...]
Relevant Magazine recently found an online petition asking Pat Robertson to “please retire or at least stop making unfounded, insane-sounding comments and trying to pass them off as mainstream Christian thought.” The petition is called CAPS—”Christians Against Pat Speaking”. I signed it.
Its hard to really call it day one. It was more like 2 days rolled into one. We left Atlanta at 4:00 pm on Sunday and are just now settling into our hotel on Monday night at 11:30 pm. It’s almost Tuesday.
It was a 13 hour flight from New York to Delhi. But with [...]
I’m back. Can’t say that I didn’t miss it. Can’t say that I don’t miss the simplicity and ragged beauty of India.
Just a reminder that some of us are getting together tomorrow night for conversation. If you’re interested, go here for details.
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So you’ve got an orange tree. Or better yet, you’ve got a whole orchard full of them. And they’re all dying. They are rotting. They smell bad. They look bad. They taste bad.
And so the first gut level, knee jerk reaction is to scurry about trying to [...]
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It’s really a subtle sort of thing. Nobody walks around thinking about their worldview on a conscious level. No one really goes around and makes direct decisions about how to view the world. It kind of just happens. Sub-consciously, as we do our thing in life, we [...]
It’s difficult to really describe how I got here. And I think its about time I gave a good explanation to how I did. And why I believe what I believe now. And why I’ve recast a lot of things against a different backdrop. I don’t think I’ve been able to do this until now [...]
Funny Stuff.
We made it back from Alabama. Although this time we saw a guy walking his dog while riding his four wheeler. Went to a NASCAR related restaraunt where there was bad karaoke and a large lady in a short shirt dancing with her man. Her belly button was oddly shaped. And we saw another lady [...]