Counterculture. Faith. Love.
From the monthly archives:
This is a picture of the famous American author and philosopher Henry D. Thoreau. Ok, so he’s not a good looking dude … but none the less he had some really challenging and thought provoking things to say throughout his life. I have a magnet on my refrigerator with a quote of his: “Go confidently [...]
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In light of the Pope controversy yesterday and it being Christmas Eve today, I wanted to link you all to a friend of mine, Scot McKnight, who wrote a brilliant post about Obama’s choice to have Rick Warren give the invocation. His post is by far and away the most level-headed, well thoughtout commentary I’ve [...]
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The BBC News reported today that, in his year-end speech to the senior Vatican staff, the Pope stated that gender theory blurs the distinction between male and female and could thus lead to the self-destruction of the human race (click here and here for two versions of the story.) Throughout his speech the Pope threw [...]
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Why is it the Top 17 things you might ask? Well, I couldn’t settle on just 15. 17. Live Danity Kane concert16. Love Lockdown by Kanye West15. Dark Knight Movie14. The Year of Living Biblically by AJ Jacobs13. David Cook winning American Idol12. Chicago Cubs great regular season (let’s just forget about the playoffs—please!) 11. [...]
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A good friend of mine, Marko (who is the President of Youth Specialties), posted this video on his blog last month. It is the funniest thing I’ve seen in forever. Please click here and watch it! I was laughing out loud (to myself) for a good 5 minutes. Much love.www.themarinfoundation.org
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A good friend of mine Ramiro Medrano gave me, for my birthday, two tickets to the Chicago premier (private screening) of Brad Pitt’s new movie, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The screening was at 8pm on my birthday (the 16th), and lucky for me the weather was horrible that day. Therefore due to inclimate [...]
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This is going to be my first entry letting everyone know how fat I feel. After just getting off of my brand new scale (that I bought just for this fun adventure) I weight 259.5 lbs! That’s right, I weight like 260. Wow. By far and away this is the fattest I’ve ever been. Let [...]
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Crazy things like this happen: (Picture of Andrew Marin speaking to a packed house at the NHL’s Nashville Predator’s arena at the Youth Specialties National Convention) The word is getting out—the movement is happening—there will be a bridge built between the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and religious communities. All the Lord needs is just one [...]
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On the heals of GQ Magazine naming Chicago their City of the Year, our (I’m from, and live in Chicago) governor just got arrested by the FBI for trying to sell Barack Obama’s Senate seat. Doesn’t surprise me one ounce. In fact, it has been common knowledge in Illinois that Rod Blagojevich has been under [...]
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Just a dude trying to learn how to live and love. 
