you seek praise, but for you he fell.

Why do you seek the heights, creation? standing on each other’s backs. O your love for deprivation, hungry for your next attack. Reputation, wealth, golden calves ruined lives for diamond rings. Innocent deaths line our paths; o what we exchange for the King. Did you miss it? when he fell to his knees. Did you … Continue reading →

Hello world, meet Imagination.

When I was a young lad from the cul-de-sac there was no limit to my imagination. I vividly remember many an afternoon in June or July taking part in an all-out campaign to defend the planet from the foulest, greenest, and most maniacal extra-terrestrials imaginable. They always had horrible aim with their lasers (and I … Continue reading →

if darkness had won.

If in the end Christ never rose again, if the cross was the final moment in his life, if the centurions and Jewish leaders had accomplished what they sought to do, we’d have no reason to hold our tongue. If Christ was never resurrected than it makes perfect sense to repay evil with evil, to … Continue reading →

We all want to be simple [townie]

The irony of hipster/townie culture is the amount of work put into living simply. I imagine a townie-in-training having a long list of changes he or she must intentionally think through in order to live more simply – more down to earth. No Walmart, only local produce, buy a fixie bike, develop a fancy for … Continue reading →