For the persistent little narcissist within, I give you the following: Enjoy yourself!!

Jesus Christ ↓ The Apostle Paul ↓ Augustine of Hippo ↓ (Martin Luther) John Calvin ******* For those who are scratching their heads, Apostolic Succession is a doctrine among the liturgical or more ancient traditions that current bishops are able to trace the lineage of their authority and ministry through preceding generations all the way [...]

One day I will be so fluent that I will be able to rap in Spanish like these guys. Regarding the remaining clips and the whole community college experience, that’s pretty much how it was for me when I went to Solano Community College.

Fresno is a grid, a veritable checkerboard of a city. Except for the downtown area, all the streets either run east-west, or north-south, and they are long, stretching beyond the city proper, and out into the countryside, and the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. This post is about one such street in Fresno, [...]

I thank you Lord for your sovereign faithfulness to your covenant with  our father, Abraham through which you you sent your son to judge the world, and secure our redemption, so that all things and everyone may be restored to communion with you.

You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. -Galatians 3:26-27 ******* I have repeatedly been impressed by the idea of being clothed in Christ. Most recently I was watching an episode of “White Collar,” a new show on [...]

I know this is cynical, but sometimes I think that whether you’re a liberal, or a conservative, a cog in the machine or raging against it, whether your a rebel or the Man, in the end we’re all paying the same metaphysical arms dealer.

The LORD brought me forth as the first of his works before his deeds of old; I was appointed from eternity, from the beginning, before the world began. When there were no oceans, I was given birth, when there were no springs abounding with water; before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, [...]

You’re born, you live, you make choices, and then you die. Yes, philosophically this comic is expressive of agnostic existentialism with a good dose of melancholy, but dang if the cow doesn’t somehow make it funny.

In reading a summary of Aristotle’s thinking, I got to thinking about human consciousness and evolution, and it struck me that within the framework of evolution human consciousness is a tragedy. The idea behind the commonly accepted theory of evolution is that there is no telos (no goal or purpose) in nature, and so what [...]