Category: Culture
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Understanding & Reaching Wireless Students
Whether you are a high school teacher, a high school pastor, or the parent of a high schooler we all have the same problem. How do we understand and reach the teenagers in front of us with messages that matter? I’ve found that this lead in question is often the problem. We are a generation…
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Look ma, no hands!
I love this video. But not as much as when Kermit did it back in the day. “Look ma, no brains!“
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California Dreaming
The American dream was affirmed yesterday– at least for some California residents. For tens of thousands of children, brought here illegally as children by their parents, Jerry Brown’s signing of the California Dream Act, was a symbol of hope that their state cares about them. Qualifying students, regardless of their immigration status, can now apply…
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Thank You, Steve Jobs
Here’s to the crazy ones. The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do. More than just a technology or computer company. Steve Jobs taught a generation that by thinking differently, amazing things can happen. Whose got next?
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Radically Local
I don’t drive my car very often. We are a one car family and I choose to take the trolley to work most days. I’ve learned to love the slowness of riding my bike and taking public transportation. When I do drive it tends to be with the five of us crammed into our Passat.…
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The Godfather, Scene One
Easily my favorite films. Right from the first scene you see that the world is controlled by two competing mores. First, the surface world where law & order seemingly rule in a land where everyone is equal. Second, the underworld which truly defines what law & order means for a certain class of people. This…
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City People Really are Wired Differently
In 2002, Kristen and I considered a position at a lovely church in rural Nebraska. The nearest large city was Lincoln some two hours away. The town was quaint and cute as a postcard. But as we dug into the realities of moving somewhere with one coffee shop, a small grocery store, a gas station,…
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Place your bet
A few months ago I went to Las Vegas with my father-in-law for 24 hours. There are at least 4 things hilarious with that statement, right? He was running a marathon and needed someone to drive with him from San Diego to Las Vegas and back. I went since it’d be nice to catch-up along…
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Take it like a man
Last night I watched an hour-long interview with Jesse James. (West Coast Choppers, ex-husband to Sandra Bullock) Pier Morgan, who conducted the interview, did his best to find an excuse that Jesse could latch onto as to why he had behaved the way he had. Was it because your father beat you? Were you lonely…
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Rejecting the rejection of community life
In the mid-20th century architects like Mies van der Rohe envisioned simplicity and wholeness in urban centers. Into the chaos of the city their residential designs sought to bring wholeness and community. (For reference, see Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.) They attempted to convince residents that an amazing community life could be had within just a…