Facebook Is The New TV

Television is dead. Thank God; what a freaking monstrosity. But it ain’t over yet, kids. Now we got Facebook. Choose Your Own Adventure was pretty cool when you were little, reading a 50-page novel in size 14. (I never actually read those. Maybe you did.) But now, choice has become insidious. You still devour a […]

It’s strange to be back, back, back on Facebook

My virtual life has picked up right where it left off eight months ago. Aside from an obnoxious format change (the nth, dammit), the Book of Faces is exactly as mundane, tantalizing, and largely irrelevant as ever. Typing “fac” into the URL field and letting autocomplete do the rest is still a quick fix for […]

Response to: Evangelicals Question The Existence Of Adam And Eve

First, read or listen to the NPR piece: http://www.npr.org/2011/08/09/138957812/evangelicals-question-the-existence-of-adam-and-eve Christianity does not hinge on the literal existence of a first man and woman nor on a literal moment-in-time fall from grace. The brokenness of our world and our glimpses of joy are evidence enough that we were created for perfect relationship with God and other […]