Too Much is Not Enough
Soul Searching By Stanley Abell Because in between the lines I’m gonna pack more lines “Too Much” ~Dave Matthews Do you remember Mr. Creosote from the Monty Python Movie The Meaning of Life? The aptly...
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The Wrinkles of the Road By Matt Peyton Last week I got the chance to listen to a talk by Quaker Pastor and author Philip Gulley. He shared a lot of powerful ideas, but one in particular has stuck in...
View ArticleSo Much Love
Miss Meg Goes to Washington Meg Biallas Something about this video gets me every time. One of my high school friends, Josh Schroyer produced this “lipdub” media project at Calvin College this spring....
View ArticleComing Into My Own (And What Is That, Exactly?)
Miss Meg Goes to Washington Meg Biallas If you’ve ever played Trivial Pursuit, you know that each game piece is a different color. Each piece has its own compartment. In high school, my youth group...
View ArticleJustice or Charity?
There is a book called On The Move which is Bono’s speech to the 2006 National Prayer Breakfast set to images. I have taken this work and used images from my own travels in the developing world (and U2...
View ArticleSunday Question
Hey Blueviners, on this Sunday morning we want to hear from you. How do you experience connection or conversation with God? Is it in nature? Where specifically? Or what does it feel like? Is it through...
View ArticleElbow Drop
Soul Searching By Stanley Abell Jacob wrestled the angel And the angel was overcome “Bullet The Blue Sky” ~U2 I must admit, when it comes to professional wrestling, I know next to nothing. My...
View ArticleMr. Potato Head: God Edition
The world has done gone crazy (again) y’all. Just when we’d gotten over our fowl fury, enter Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) with his theory of “legitimate rape.” He has since recanted… just a mix-up of words,...
View ArticleA Gift From God
If you’ve ever used a wireless microphone to speak in public, leaving it on just once after you’ve left the podium will usually cure you of doing it again. I’ve left mine on in the bathroom, oops…...
View ArticleReally Stupid “Religious Stuff” We Say to Each Other All Too Often, Part II
I closed out my recent BVC blog entry with these words: This list doesn’t include the really stupid religious stuff we too often say at the time of someone’s death…the really stupid religious stuff we...
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