As I’ve said–or at least hinted at–before I’m increasingly taking a relational view of justice, that when God calls us to do justice He is really calling us to live in relationship with others. So with that in mind I read through 1 Samuel 8 while reading for my thesis. Up to this point, God [...]
It’s late and of course I should be in bed, but instead I’m up watching video’s on TED.com. Tonight it was this talk from Deborah Scranton, a documentary filmmaker, speaking about her documentary The War Tapes. Scranton had the opportunity to embed with a National Guard unit in Iraq. But rather than go herself as [...]
A little over two years ago I wrote this and this. Today I watched this and was happy.
All the talk about the inauguration tomorrow got my political science nerd juices flowing. I decided to look and see what other countries in addition to the United States have Presidential inauguration ceremonies. Want to guess how many? Out of 193 recognized sovereign states in the world, 13 of them have inaugurations. 13! And of [...]
I should be heading to bed right now but instead I’m sitting in my living room listening to Neutral Milk Hotel records and trying to prognosticate the future. I’m trying to figure out what I want to say in my grad school admissions essay. I don’t know why it seems so hard to put down [...]
