Transform Your Christmas

What if you could transform Christmas? Would you?
As Christmas approaches many of us are asking the same questions. We’re no longer interested in the idea of buying for the sake of buying. We’re interested in discovering the redemptive meaning of Christmas.  Are our relationships deepening?  Are we stepping into what it means to love our [...]

“Wall-E” better than Batman’s “Dark Knight?”

I didn’t think it was appropriate to take my four-year-old son to the new Batman movie “Dark Knight” (it was a close call though)…so instead, we journeyed over to watch Pixar Disney’s animated “Wall-E.”  
Wall-E truly is a movie that needs to be seen by everyone.  If you care – you’ll leave caring even more – [...]

I’m taking my ball and going home.

I have a four year old boy named Carson and a two year girl old named Josie. I’ve played catch with my son a lot thus far in his life…but never with Josie…until this weekend.  So the three of us – played catch together.  Josie is just now at the age physically that she is [...]

“All I need”

This Radiohead video is a deeply moving comparison between two worlds.  Two worlds that until recently, I never knew existed.  Now that I know…and I can’t ignore it any longer.  For some, everything must change.  This video wrecked me.  As I watch, I see my own boy on left and contrast with so many others [...]

Sometimes, the worst part of buying something…

…is the buying part.
Check out this very quick post by marketing guru Seth Godin.
I love Seth.  I read him and subscribe to him.  But this is the consumerism that scares me.  It all scares me, but the simplicity of this is unbelievable.
Buying never satisfies.  It’s the world’s most accepted form of Heroin.  Our economy is [...]

I Can’t Stand It Anymore…

“Since 1913, the United States witnessed only one other year of such unequal wealth distribution — 1928, the year before the stock market crashed, according to Jared Bernstein, a senior fellow at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington.”
I wish this quote wasn’t true.  I wish I could post about how things in the United States [...]