We had a Memorial Day-themed service at church on sunday. I’m sure most churches did, as “holiday-themed” services are fairly popularly attended. In no particular order of importance we: a. sang patriotic songs b. applauded all veterans/servicepeople in the church c. listened to some poetry/prose/country music with war/soldier themes d. recited the pledge and e. […]

Hello Friends,
Just a note to let you all know i’m going to be adding more links re: interesting Art in the Free Reads! section of the site. I tried posting “art bulletins” on myspace for awhile, but it was unfulfilling. So i moved the idea “in-house” (as the kids say) to fightme.org. Enjoy! And don’t […]

If the church needs to really change - if something monumental has to happen in order to reverse the slide away from the christian church - then how did we let it get this bad? How did “church” become a punchline, a dirty word? Is it society’s fault? Darwin’s fault? Our fault?
We are stuck in […]

May 16, 1990 - May 16, 2007

Jim Henson suddenly became ill with pneumonia caused by severe Streptococcus “A” bacteria and died at the age of 53 on May 16, 1990. Two separate memorial services were held for Henson, one in New York City at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and in London […]

To be perfectly honest, I’ve been struggling a lot lately with what i would call “circumstantial depression.” No one has a perfect life, that’s for certain, but ever since Tennyson’s death i have had a chronic broken heart. I wake up every day knowing that something is inexplicably missing from my life. It’s grotesquely fascinating […]

To sum it up in two words: virtually unwatchable. With none of the whimsy or absurdist fantasy of his earlier projects, this Terry Gilliam adaptation is so dark it hurts my mind to think about it. The basic plot (described on the DVD box as “gruesome”) is of an 8/9 year old girl (Jeliza-Rose) who […]

Hirsch recommends some radical changes to what we know as church. It must be noted before i continue that the missional / emergent church is not an act of rebellion against traditional church. It is rather a rethinking, but more importantly a repracticing of what church is.
First: the church unit must become much smaller in […]