When you spend a lot of time on music blogs and hang out with snobby music fans, you frequently broach the same controversial topic: What’s the worst song of all time?
Nickelback’s catalog is always a safe choice. So is Creed’s, seeing as they’re just Nickelback but 10 years older and less self-aware. Some staunch rock purists elect something from Justin Bieber’s […]
I woke up last Wednesday with a headache that refuses to leave.
Chalk it up to post-election trauma—and not just because of who won. Come the night of Nov. 8, it didn’t really matter who emerged victorious; the scandals, the sensationalism and the flurry of insults from all parties turned my stomach into a cauldron of dread threatening to bubble out of […]
You plunge headfirst into a tank of ice-cold water. Disoriented, you flail underwater until you finally manage to upright yourself and open your eyes. The first thing you see is a great white shark racing toward you, fins angled back, razor-sharp teeth glimmering.
We’ve all seen enough movies to know what happens next in this scenario. But what if, when the shark […]
I do not want to do things.
I know that sounds weird, and to those who know me, it seems like an outright lie, because I am always doing things of every sort. Rehearsing with my band, lifting weights, going to concerts, writing reviews, participating in Bible studies, and, occasionally, showing up to […]
Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him; because all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vainglory of life, is not of the Father but is […]
On my high school church retreats, we used to have something called the Cry Chair.
The premise of the Cry Chair was simple. All of us tiny, hormonal teenage campers sat in a circle with one chair in the middle of […]
