When I was in college, Donald Miller was the new hotness. Every hipster Christian talked about how Blue Like Jazz had changed their life. If you know me at all, you know that there is no quicker way to deter me from reading a book than 2,000 Gen-Y Christians singing its praises. But, as I [...]
Posts from ‘August, 2008’
Moving…
Hey guys… I’m in the process of migrating from wordpress.com hosting to a self hosting platform, so bear with me as the site may act a little strange for a few days. No worries, though, when Catacomb gets up and going on the new servers things will be better than you could have ever imagined! [...]
Unreasonable Faith? – Part II (with apologies to Francis Schaeffer)
A Note to the Reader: The following is a philosophical treatise. I do not intend for it to be easily digested. I am far too inept as a writer to make this, in anyway, consumable for the masses. I wish I were. This being said, my aim is to put this in as plain a [...]
Unreasonable Faith?
The thing I miss the most about college, other than Saturdays in the fall, is the intellectual atmosphere. The word university is very easy to break down. Essentially, it means unity in diversity, hence uni-versity. I loved living in a college town filled with people, students, and professors each with their own ideas and eager [...]
Hot, Warm, Nervous Hands (A Meditation in Kansas)
A week ago I threw all of my worldly possessions into the back of an Isuzu Trooper and drove 1500 miles west across the Mississippi River and the Great Plains; through ghost towns and cornfields peppered with small chapels and windmills. I’ve driven this route before. The majority of it follows I-70 clear across Kansas. [...]
