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  • Doubting Thomas

    Here’s the video of the Nickle Creek song.  It’s groovy. If it’s not embedded on this page, click here instead. Here’s what I wonder – and many others have too.  Why do we call him doubting?  Weren’t all the other disciples equally questionable?  How many of them ran to the tomb to greet the risen…

  • A Methodist & an Atheist Walk Into a Bar…

    I’ve had some ongoing dialogue with an atheist (I’ve also heard the phrase non-theist) friend of mine.  Yesterday he posted on my Facebook page a Daily Beast article quoting Orange County Pastor Wiley Drake who appears to be calling for the deaths of Congress members – and perhaps others – who support health care reform…

  • Sending from Theology After Google

    Here are the lyrics from the sending song I wrote for the close of Theology After Google. I am humbled to have been part of such an event, and am grateful for the presenters, leaders, and those whose paths intersected with mine.  Here are the lyrics: Praise God who has created Praise God in unity…

  • Sex: Sympathizing with the Damned

    The more I think about it, the more I think sex divides us more than it brings us together.  How’s that for counter-intuitive?! And yet it seems to be all we can talk about.  Or more accurately, it’s all we can think about as long as we don’t talk about it except that we can…

  • The End of Science v. Religion? Not…

    I just got home after attending the Clayton v. Dennett debate over at CGU.  I’m still processing, and will likely want to watch the debate again.  If you missed it or need to watch it again, the place to do so is here: Here are a few thoughts I’d wish to share, and then I’d…

  • Opportunities for Techno-Theology

    Opportunities for Techno-Theology

    When I was in my early 20s, I went to a church in Northridge that had – for the first time I’d ever seen – a projector showing song lyrics during the worship service.  I had been involved in tech for quite a while and had been involved in my local church for even longer.  Never…

  • Something New with Theology and Tech!

    So I’ve been a geek for a long time.  I don’t need to water it down.  If it walks like a duck & quacks like a duck, it’s a duck!  I walk like a geek and talk like a geek, so I must be a geek!!  I’ve been a freelance IT consultant for a number…

  • And So It Begins

    I’ve been working long and hard toward the possibility of becoming an Ordained Pastor, and now I’m at a pretty big step.  I’m from the United Methodist tradition, so there’s a long history on what has turned out to be a long and not-without-its-rewards process.  AND, did I mention that it’s a LONG process?! Those…

  • Watch This Twice

    I was looking online at contemporary Christian music and I ran across this skit that was performed to a song that I know and like called “Never Alone” (by BarlowGirl).  I have to admit that this skit seemed dark and ill-conceived at first.  I’m really glad I chose to watch the whole thing! This skit is about…

  • Santa Clarita UMC Video

    A friend asked that I post a video from preaching at Santa Clarita UMC on Sunday the 28th of December (that’s 2008 folks).  So here’s the video.  It’s long, so plan on spending around 25 minutes here.  The first part of the video is my arrangement of “Go Tell It on the Mountain,” followed by…