You two be good to each other, now.


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Once again, a firestorm of criticism and corresponding backlash erupts from the simple banality of bad art.

When I say that this is bad art, I mean that in the sense of its being lousy. That is, the artist had a conscious communicative intent for the artwork, but produced a piece that proved ill-suited to the task ( Read more... )

This is what I've been writing, in stolen moments over the past week, in an attempt to summarize what I took home from my trip ( Read more... )

Rachel, Sara's oldest friend and one of the two witnesses to our wedding (her signature is on our Ketubah) came to visit us for the beginning of this week. We were the first stop on her east coast tour (from Seattle to Boston, to NYC, to...um, I think there was a third stop, but I can't remember whether it was Philadelphia or DC, since we ( Read more... )

I will be preaching and leading worship at Arlington Street Church for the first time this Sunday. Naturally, any and all are welcome.

11:00 am
Arlington Street Church
351 Boylston Street
Boston, MA

So, this is a meme from Casey's journal. You type "YOUR FIRST NAME looks like" into goolge and see what you get. Of course, there is the omnipresent problem for me, that over the last 30 years, the name Kelly has gone from a mostly male to an almost exclusively female name in the American public consciousness. Still, a tremendous number of ( Read more... )

Things I have been doing ( Read more... )

My thought while fishing around in a dim box with the hand not currently in use to hold the door ajar:

"Why can't there be a light in the freezer? There's a light in the fridge."

This is how it always seems to be: first, nothing happens for a while, and I get out of the habit of posting stuff here (actually, its less that nothing happens as that enough boring stuff happens that I get distracted from writing about the very small details of life). Then, a whole bunch of stuff happens, and I feel really too buisy to be ( Read more... )

From Monday morning (Advanced Preaching):

"Is a sermon somehow defficient if its only goal is engendering a sense of comfort and support, of, for the span of 10-15 minutes, making the audience feel "held"?

Yes, if that is truely all it does. But that can be most of what it does - it can even, in the right time and context, be the most radical ( Read more... )