Hugh Hollowell

I mentioned the other day my ever-growing list of books in the to-be-read pile. I am working my way through them, but I am being held up by The Politics of Jesus by John Howard Yoder. It was recommended to me by several people, and now I can see why. It has been a long time since a book has made such an impact on me or caused me to question so much of what I “know” to be true. I am about 3/4 of the way through the book and already, I can tell this is one going in the permanent collection. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.!

Bust-a-gut funny.

These two posts do a much better job than I ever could explaining the disconnect I feel, and why I will not be buying an iPhone.

In his post McDonalds Makes Jesus Cry, Huffington Post blogger Chris Kelly tells us how the AFA is now boycotting  McDonalds because they dared to donate $20,000 to the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.  Apparently, the AFA sees this as just one step before selling small boys for sex in the happy meals.

The thing that saddened me the most is the comments from all the “Christians” on the AFA site. Here are a few choice comments from those who claim to follow in the way of Jesus.

“YOU DID NOT BILD YOUR COMPANY ON HOMOSEXUAL PEOPLE! IT WAS BUILD ON FAMILY VALUES! MAN,WIFE.CHILDREN!MOSTLTY CHILDREN! THEY DON’T COME FROM HOMO PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

or this one:

“The McFaddin Family will vote with our Money and Feet and take our business elsewhere! You can stuff your Happy Gay Meal and Happy Gay Agenda where the Sun don’t Shine!”

and my personal favorite from this follower of the Prince of Peace:

“The only thing you’ll be cooking is yourselves, for eternity.”

Sigh… being a follower of Jesus is hard. Somedays, though, it is harder dealing with other alleged Jesus Followers.

You are Christian only so long as you constantly pose critical questions to the society you live in, so long as you emphasize the need of conversion both for yourself and for the world, so long as you in no way let yourself become established in the situation of the world, so long as you stay unsatisfied with the status quo and keep saying that a new world is yet to come. You are Christian only when you believe you have a role to play in the realization of the new kingdom, and when you urge everyone you meet with holy unrest to make haste so that the promise might soon be fulfilled. So long as you live as a Christian you keep looking for a new order, a new structure, a new life. – Henri Nouwen (via Brian McLaren)

This is one of the funniest things I have read in a while.

I love this quote:

“It set the crowd off lobbing beers,” Holland said. “They had beers in plastic cups. Those things can get some distance on them actually.”

Pray at the Pump? There is so much wrong with this, I really don’t know where to start. This is a great example of how we have turned God into a magic genie, who is there to answer our prayers and make our lives comfortable.

A fascinating use of Twitter and their API. I could watch this for hours…

Mark Driscoll Reaches New Spiritual Level, Kicks His Own Ass (it’s called parody, people)

The downside of all the social networks is the amount of time they take. I find an old friend on Facebook or Myspace and then I have to bring them up to date on the last 15 years or whatever. I like finding old friends; the amount of time this takes is amazing, however.