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  • Amazing Andhra Adventure: Rediscovering Ganugapati Krishnayya

    [The following is adapted from an email my parents sent during their visit to India, and demonstrates a great deal about their ancestors (and mine).] Dearest family, Grace and peace to you. We pray that you are all keeping busy and healthy. We made a historic visit to some family…

  • The Transformational Cascade

    Imago Christi! From The Vine Plentiful Love Peaceful Justice Powerful Humility To The Branch More Jesus More Cross More Kingdom More Truth More Forgiveness More Power For The Kingdom From All of God In All of Me With All of my Wife As All of our Family Through All of…

  • Kenneth James Sniecinski’s Personal Blurb

    My friend Kenneth (whose poetry periodically appears in this blog) recent sent out a letter, which concluded with a brief personal/biography: Concluding, I give a very brief bio in hopes U will share it with male and female advocates, as well as any female who may be interested/curious about this male.Click…

  • Between Life and Living by Kenneth James Sniecinski

    “Between Life and Living” by Kenneth James Sniecinski Written September 7th, Anno Domini 2005 Every moment hope they are savored Savorable everything cherished and favorable as U-R breathing Seeing and believing in all U’r hearts desires dreaming being unmistakable in pursuits seen in U’r vision unshakable So in every day…

  • The Transformational Spiral

    [Updated 11/12: “Structures” -> “Systems”; Structures constrain, Systems enable] I was talking to my friend/pastor John Isaacs about his work with TASCC, and I was struck by the parallels between what he was doing in the Christian community and what I’m trying to do within the technology community. In particular,…

  • Nehemiah 8 Ezra! Ezra! Read All About It!

    Questions: Why read the Law? With what attitude? To what end? How does understanding differ from knowledge* Why should we rejoice and not weep? “Read More” to pursue answers in Nehemiah.

  • DiaBlogue: Belief, Reality & Epistemology

    My friend Alan made an excellent point in his response to my last post: while Ernie has made a good faith effort to respond as best he knew how, we are lacking some kind of “meta-agreement”. I do not know quite how to explain that, except to say that I…

  • DiaBlogue: A Post-Modern Faith in Jesus, Take 0

    My friend Alan Lund was kind enough to reply on Little Endian to my lengthy post, and raises a number of extremely valid questions, which I might summarize as: a. Is that all you believe is empirically knowable? b. Is there anything left worth believing? c. Can we have empirical…

  • DiaBlogue: A Post-Modern Faith in Jesus

    I’ve recently received a couple of emails regarding friends of friends who’ve “lost faith.” In most cases, they’re rejecting a fundamentalist interpretation of Christianity on empirical grounds, with the end result of rejecting all of historic Christianity. While I admire their intellectual honesty, I suspect that part of the problem…

  • Thoughts from a Sunday Morning on Purpose

    These random notes cover what I was thinking about at church Sunday morning. They were inspired by the worship and message, and resulted in me going up for prayer, though the actual topic (Parable of Soils, Luke 8 ) was only indirectly connected to the various issues I’ve been wrestling…

  • True Repentance by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

    Today’s devotional from Spurgeon: True repentance has a distinct reference to the Saviour. When we repent of sin, we must have one eye upon sin and another upon the cross, or it will be better still if we fix both our eyes upon Christ and see our transgressions only, in…

  • Nehemiah 7 Redeeming Authority

    Questions: What does it take to rebuild a community? Whom do we trust to lead? Are we building walls, or lives? How should walls be used? How do we establish just dominion? “Read More” to pursue answers in Nehemiah. Father God, make me an instrument of your authority. Where there…

  • Keeping Promises, with John Dawson

    I spent a wonderful weekend at Promise Keepers in San Jose with my friend John McClements. It formed an interesting counterpoint to the Web 2.0 conference I had attended earlier that week. One of my favorite talks was by John Dawson , President of YWAM, whose book I had read…

  • Nehemiah 6 Rotten Meet

    Questions: What motivates our enemies? Where does courage come from? When is religion a crutch? Who speaks for God? How can we tell genuine from false* Why are some attacks doomed to fail? “Read More” to pursue answers in Nehemiah

  • Nehemiah 5 Human Capital

    Why is slavery wrong? Why did God sometimes allow it? What is our responsibility for how we use our money? What do we owe the poor? Are we our brother’s keepers? “Read More” to pursue answers in Nehemiah.

  • Covered With [Wholesome] Sin by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

    I loved the imagery and insight in today’s Spurgeon devotional: “Behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague.” —-Leviticus 13:13 The basic idea is that the path of virtue, paradoxically, requires embracing our total sinfulness. That is, only when we…

  • The Oatmeal of Shame (A Parable)

    Now, the first thing you need to realize is that oatmeal is part of my life. Not a big part, or a hugely important one, but a regular part. It is a central focus of my morning routine, right up there with coffee. I’m not religious about it — when…

  • Nehemiah 4 The Bitter Half

    Questions: Why does doing good create enemies? How should we respond to opposition? What is it that we really need to fear? Why is it important to fight and work together? “Read More” to pursue answers in Nehemiah.

  • Children of God by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

    Today’s devotional really spoke to the question of “Joy” that I realize I’d been missing: The rod of chastisement must rest upon us in our measure, but it worketh for us the comfortable fruits of righteousness; and therefore by the aid of the divine Comforter, we, the “people saved of…

  • Intellectuals vs. Faith (?)

    Hat tip to Applejack for “Ross Douthat’s exceptional response at The American Scene” to Mark Lilla’s personal essay in the Times Magazine about the loss of his “evangelical” faith. I appreciate how Douthat doesn’t shy away from conceding Mark Lilla’s valid points about the superficiality and cultural conditioning of much…