<![CDATA[ Yesterday I traveled up to Seattle for a planning meeting for a conference that I’m involved in helping to put together called Feet to Faith. It’s designed to engage teenagers who follow Christ into many of the social justice issues that are typically under-emphasized (if not outright ignored) in the church. It’s in August…

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<![CDATA[The Oracle said it best… “know thyself.” With that Matrix quote in mind, I present a few links to get your personality juices flowing. First, I recommend the Keirsey Temperament Sorter(registration required). It’s free, and it will group you into one of four main temperament groupings, each of which have four permutations of their own.…

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<![CDATA[ So I’m smack in the middle of a mentorship triangle, and it’s starting to get downright unpredictable. I guess it serves me right for thinking that life would go down neat and tidy. See, one of the principles that my Pops likes to espouse is the idea of “one-up, one-over, one-down.” This, aside from…

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<![CDATA[What is it about the hood and crime? On second thought, don't answer that. Still though, it’s getting to the point where the educated are outnumbered by gangstas and wannabes. And by the way, don’t think that just by becoming a successful pro athlete, and keeping a clean profile (hard to do these days) that…

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<![CDATA[So one of my favorite shows to scrounge for clips from on the internet (since I don’t have cable TV) is called Mythbusters. They’re basically science geeks having fun trying to prove (or disprove) whatever theory du jour is floating around. Everything from the mentos and Diet coke craze to whether or not bulls in…

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<![CDATA[You want some major low-attention-span theater? Do what I'm doing right now, which is sit and listen to Holly play the Oregon Trail game on Facebook. “Dang.” “Maybe if I had rested more.” “Wait it started… how do I shoot?” “Hmm. Explosive diarrhea.” “Jackie’s dead? Oh, that’s horrendous.” “How can I make some money here?”…

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<![CDATA[ “Word to your moms, I’m here to drop bombs, I got more rhymes than the Bible’s got psalms.” — Everlast, of the House of Pain, “Jump Around.” So I’m noticing a disturbing trend. (No, Kris Kross is not making a comeback. It’s not that disturbing.) It’s become clear to me that in this media-saturated…

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<![CDATA[Okay, so here's a conundrum I'm finding myself having: I’m a wireless web surfer. I was an early adopter of having wireless internet on my phone (since early 2002) and my virtually insatiable curiosity for information has increased along with the technology. Now that I can look at just about any web page on my…

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<![CDATA[No, really. This is not some sort of weird hyperbole on my part. A particularly clever spammer managed to squeak this message past not one, but two spam filters (one through gmail, the other through MS Outlook), all for the purpose of trying to convince me that someone wants me dead: HELLO: I am very…

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<![CDATA[Okay, so my pattern in life has been to get excited about things, do them for awhile, have my enthusiasm stall, get excited about something else, and then start doing that. This is partially to explain for why I went almost a year without posting anything to this blog, because I started getting into other…

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