Update

Dan Thompson wasn’t lost. I was just fuzzy on where to find him. He found me a couple weeks ago and now I’ve added him to the blogroll. See any family resemblance?

Also.

Josh and Jesse Hunter have been living in Jamaica since last June and working with the Peace Corps. or May? I have left up their individual blogs until… now! Their PC blog is now in the blogroll and the individual blogs can be accessed secondarily from there.

Blogroll.

Filed under: Blogroll, Recommends, Updates , Dan Thompson, Jesse Hunter, Josh Hunter

Book Review: Rabbi Paul

Rather than a musical rehash, I thought I’d write about a book i just finished reading. It’s Rabbi Paul by Bruce Chilton. That’s a funny joke- raise your hand if you got it.

Filed under: Book Review, Church History, Rabbinical Tradition, Recommends, Theology , Acts of the Apostles, Bruce Chilton, Italian Roast, Rabbi Paul

Cleverly Untitled

“The mind is its own place and it itself, can make a heaven of hell, and a hell of heaven.” -John Milton

Filed under: Attitude, Recommends , CS Lewis, John Milton, Paradise Lost, The Great Divorce

Updates

Finally added Corey and Juli to the blogroll… and updated the List of Bad Ideas. I wish i had more bad ideas!

That is all.

Filed under: Blogroll, Recommends, Updates

Prayer?

“Worry is praying for the worst.” -Kevin Elko

Filed under: Interdisciplinary Action, Leadership, Rabbinical Tradition, Recommends , Attitude, El Greco, Eric Musselman, Henry Abbott, john maxwell, Kevin Elko, Nick Saban, Saint Paul, True Hoop

Us vs. Them

I kind of get a kick out of folk who have strong (often negative) opinions about Them- but cannot name one of Them to save their life. Until you are in relationship with one of Them, it may be that you’ve not earned the right to speak against Them. Then, you actually get to know one of Them, and the argument against Them breaks down pretty quickly. The irony is that the person you actually know is “the exception” nearly every time.

Filed under: Recommends, Seemingly Random, Theology , CS Lewis, Eros and Psyche, Faramir, Rene Girard, Romeo and Juliet, Tolkien, Walter Crane

Wise Words

Experience teaches only the teachable.” -Aldous Huxley

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”  -Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

“Careful- we don’t want to learn anything from this.” -Calvin & Hobbes

We learn from experience- our own or the experience of others- and the learning is in the evaluation.

Filed under: Leadership, Recommends, Seemingly Random , aldous huxley, calvin and hobbes, Costco, douglas adams, Edison, evaluated experience, failing forward, john maxwell, lessons learned, richard devos, single ply toilet paper

Pairings

Happy Samhain!

I mentioned in my last post two books on the subject of self-deception. These books are helpful on their own, but when read together, uh, or, sequentially they form a more whole-istic, integral picture. More bang for your buck because of the exponential interaction and what-not. I’d like to expand on that with some of my favorite pairings…

Filed under: Interdisciplinary Action, Recommends , braeburn, Chuck Palahniuk, coffee, dan mcguinness, Fight Club, fish and chips, john eldridge, samhain, shiraz pairings, Sumatra, Wild at Heart