Are we waiting around for a big house in heaven?
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 […]
Living in the tension of the times
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 […]
God in the Shark Tank
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 […]
Enjoy God and the Rest Will Follow
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 class. Though […]
College Conference Recap—Forsaking the World for God’s Heavenly Vision and Purpose
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 of […]
College Conference Recap—the Divine Mousetrap
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 the room. Everybody was invited to sit in the chair and come clean about […]