Monday Mind Dump – 4/11/2011

Ok, so I know it’s been a month or two of Sundays since the last issue of the Monday Mind dump… sue me….hahaha. The last few months have been quite a challenge.  I’ve had some physical issues, which then manifested themselves into emotional/mental issues, but after figuring out what has been causing them, the last couple weeks I’ve started feeling better than I have in quite a...

I Would Walk 500 Miles

  Close to a year ago, as I was considering going to seminary, I attended a prospective student night at Fuller Seminary – Southwest.  While listening to one of the Fuller staff talking about the mission of Fuller and what the underlying ideal was behind their educational philosophy he said one thing that has stuck with me to this day…and I’m paraphrasing here… “Good theology...

Speaking In Support Of The Utah Compact

Last night, the Human Relations Advisory Board of the City of Mesa held a meeting to get public comment on whether or not to recommend that the Mesa City Council adopt the Utah Compact, or some facsimile, as policy. The meeting was packed, and when I arrived, there was a line to get into the council chambers about 15 people deep.  Various East Valley Tea Party organizations had mobilized for this meeting, as...

Ok Eugene, I’m Calling You Out

I am a patient man, for the most part.  I do my best to temper my words because I know I can have a very short temper and, in the moment, can say things that I sometimes regret.  I’ve learned to suffer fools and shrug off logically fallacious strawman arguments posed by those with little to no understanding of the topic being discussed. However, after endlessly repeating the same idiotic, red herring...

Joel Picks My New Avatar

Joel over at Unsettled Christianity has decided that since the #1 search term to find HT today was Unicorns, that he would honor me with a new avatar. You’ve got to see this to believe...