by Marcus on October 2, 2009
A fascinating article over at InsideWork got my attention in the inbox today. Geoff Finch titled it “A High Calling: Are Some Jobs Holier Than Others?” Since I’m Senior Editor for TheHighCalling.org and HighCallingBlogs.com, that got my attention.
Geoff tells the story of his friend “Stephen” who faced a career choice. He could either join an [...]
The last of my 3 part zombie theology series.
I finished Pride and Prejudice and Zombies last night, surprised at how good it was. Every English teacher ought to buy this book. Really. It is perfect for tone analysis. I expected a somewhat lame, spoofy inside joke. In fact, I was shocked at how well the [...]
by Marcus on April 17, 2009
This morning, I was greeted by little encouragement from The Jazz Theologian (Robert Gelinas). I dropped by his site, wished I could go to Finding the Groove Live!, and settled for reading some excerpts from his new book.
The back of the book says, “A jazz-shaped faith … balances freedom with boundaries, the individual with the [...]
by Marcus on February 27, 2009
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Yesterday Publisher’s Weekly posted a short interview with David Plotz, editor of Slate, about his new book coming out next week. It’s called Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible.
Sounds fun? I suspect you can get a pretty accurate [...]
by Marcus on February 5, 2009
Over at One Man Revival, High Calling Blogger Frank Jenkins is thinking through the divisions between church culture and the wider culture.
His most recent post Hate, Hate, Hate, The Epilogue asks a pretty blunt question to Christians:
…what are things that bug or irritate you about the church not your own specifically, but in general? What [...]
by Marcus on November 24, 2008
That makes the play I wrote about last week sound crazier than it is. But since people were asking about it, I thought I’d upload a copy of the script. Feel free to use it, read it, perform it, trash it, or whatever.
Here it is: God Next Door.
We supposedly recorded it, so I may [...]
by Marcus on November 20, 2008
“You don’t have a personal relationship with Jesus?” my wife asks.
“How can I!” I say. “I’ve never seen Jesus. I’m not talking about some kind of metaphysical conversion experience. I’m not talking about Jesus in others, least of these kind of stuff.”
“Then what are you talking about?”
It’s not a real conversation. Its staged. Part of [...]
by Marcus on July 11, 2008
I met Andre Yee about two years ago when I was just getting into blogging. He still blogs over at Every Square Inch about “Conversations on the Glory of Christ in Business and Culture,” and he’s really good.
The Social Media Prophet
Andre was one of the first bloggers we hired to write for TheHighCalling.org. (You can [...]
by Marcus on March 5, 2008
My buddy Mark D. Roberts linked to me today. What a guy! He’s just finished a series on praying in public venues. You can read the story of my brother-in-law’s chaplaincy in high school over at Mark’s post for today.
And Mark’s link got me thinking about taking our faith public.