Wayward Son

Musician. Composer. Recovering perfectionist. Minister-in-transition. Lover of puns. Hijacker of rock song references. Questioner of the status quo. I'm not really a rebel. Just a sincere Christ-follower with a thirst for significance that gets me into trouble. My quest has taken me over the fence of institutional Christianity. Here are some of my random thoughts along the way. Read along, join in the conversation. Just be nice.

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The Unwritten Rules of Blogging (as I Interpret Them)

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Categories: fun, What the heck was THAT?

So I’ve been officially in the blogosphere for a little over six months now, and maybe, just maybe, I’m getting the hang of it.

Come to find out that bloggers, like nearly any other group, have their own little culture. So you don’t just sign on with a Blogger account and start writing. NOooooo. You have to learn how to do it, um, properly. Just like we had to learn certain rules of etiquette when we started emailing, or certain ways of expressing ourselves with characters other than the alphabet (like 300 different forms of smiley faces) 😀 –as a blogger, you eventually learn how to walk the walk. Online, of course.

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Covered Wagon or Bandwagon

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Categories: changing mindsets, food for thought

So I’m pondering the current trends I’m seeing, reading about, and experiencing–both away from more traditional forms of church and toward new expressions. Emergent, missional, organic, and other terms–these are words that are used in an attempt to explain what God is showing us, to explain what we are doing, and how it is different from the traditional approach.

The way I see it, there are generally two different approaches people have when venturing into new territory like this. For our purposes, let’s call them the “covered wagon approach” and the “bandwagon approach.”

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Checking In, Randomness and Some Link Love

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Categories: fun, link love, random stuff

Moonlighting (um, sun-lighting?) delivering flowers several days a week has been taking a bit of a toll, both on my time and on my blog think-a-bility. Just a bit of an adjustment…plus everytime I stay up half the night to watch a movie, it takes me a few days to get back on track. 🙂

Worth it, though.

So, just checking in to say hi to all you folks in blogland, and I should be back to my deep musings soon.

Here are a few links I found interesting this week:

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Remember Some of the All-Time Great Villains?…

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Categories: movies, What the heck was THAT?

Hannibal Lecter?

Freddie Krueger?

Darth Vader??

Amateurs.

Hands down…the Joker sets a new standard in movie villainry. At least…Heath Ledger’s version of him.

I think they’ll have to retire the Joker after this one. I can’t imagine anyone coming close to Ledger’s performance. (Sad, though, that he is not here to see it.)

Oh…Christian Bale was pretty good as Batman, too. 🙂

Little kids should not see this movie. Everyone else…go.

It is especially fun to watch at midnight with a theater full of fanatics.

(Yawn) I think I need a nap.

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Stuff You Can Learn from the Movies

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Categories: food for thought

As further evidence of my profound geekiness…I am a sucker for classic movies. Turner Classic Movies is my favorite television channel, and the DVR is loaded with some of the greats.

This is apparently “Rosalind Russell” month on TCM, so I recorded a movie called Sister Kenny a few days ago, and watched it last night. Sister Kenny is a biopic about, um, Sister Kenny–an Australian nurse who, while practicing in the remote Australian bush, accidentally discovered an effective treatment for polio years before the vaccine was discovered. (For those who are confused, Kenny was her last name, and she was not a nun. The term “sister” was used for nurses in the Australian military.)

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The Fruit of My Journey Thus Far

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Categories: changing mindsets, food for thought, Meanderings (look it up)

On the journey, every so often it is helpful to take a look backward–not in a bad way (“remember Lot’s wife”), but simply to take inventory of where you have come. Some people say in cliche manner that we must only live in the moment, that we only have today, that we can’t change the past and don’t know the future, so let’s just look at the road before us, no looking back.

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Stuff We’re Not Supposed to Know

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Categories: Meanderings (look it up)

Uh, oh. I’ve been thinking again. 🙂

I’ve been working my way through The Reason for God by Timothy Keller, which has an interesting take on explaining and validating the Christian faith to intellectual skeptics–a particular group the author comes into contact with often. This has got me thinking, not just about what the book says, but about the issue of faith and intellect in general.

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So We’re Nuts, But Don’t Judge Us

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The Wild One, The Director, and I have been waiting all year for this one.

What are you doing Thursday night at midnight?

I’ll tell you what we’ll be doing: We’ll be at the midnight opening of The Dark Knight. Forget Batman (although Christian Bale is the best actor ever to play Batman, IMHO); we’re looking for the JOKER.

Mwahahahaha.

We are such geeks.

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Regret

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Categories: Meanderings (look it up)

Every time I see one of those probing celebrity interviews, like where Barbara Walters is scouring the soul of some Hollywood icon, the question often comes up: Any regrets?

And when said celebrity smiles brightly and says, “No regrets,”–which is what the answer usually is–I wince inside.

In truth, I think anyone who says they have no regrets is either in denial, lying, or very, very rebellious.

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Books that Have Shaped My Journey Lately…

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Categories: books, Meanderings (look it up)

…besides the Bible, I mean. 🙂 (That one’s always in the picture.)

I have probably read more books in the past 18 months than I have in the previous 10 years. It has been a real season for reading, thinking, and processing for me. Amazon.com should give me an award or something. 🙂

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