I was getting dinner with a couple of my brother’s friends at a crowded In-N-Out Burger in Las Vegas this past weekend when a preacher came in and announced that he was going to tell us the Gospel. He was a man of about 35 years, roughly 5’8″, dark-haired with a extremely loud voice and a couple days’ worth of stubble on his face. Almost everybody ( Read more... )

~15 Albums that have had a strong influence on me (whether on my aesthetic, my musical tastes, my sense of poetry, my spirituality...)
Albums appear in something not dissimilar to chronological order
* denotes deeper personal resonance and impact

DC Talk- Nu Thang DC Talk was revolutionary, and this was my favorite of their albums because of ( Read more... )

The best Sprite I ever enjoyed I had on December 17, 2008 in the Kotoka airport in Accra. It was dispensed for one cedi twenty pesewas from a machine that only accepted coins. Fortunately, I had a one cedi coin, and made the hard decision to part with it. The Sprite was canned in Algeria.

11-9-08
The weather here is pretty well the same as it has been the whole
semester-- around 90F during the day and right about 80F and breezy at
night. The prospect of sleet and snow that I am hearing about in
Michigan is so interesting to me right now.

I have been learning a great deal-- about myself, about Ghana ( Read more... )

29 September 2008 ( Read more... )

10 Sep. 2008

Greetings from Ghana. May God grant you his peace.

We arrived ( Read more... )

So many thoughts in my head. Obama's speech was extremely persuasive, stirring even. Despite all of the good promises (and most of them are good, or at least sound good- a healthy economy, jobs, affordable education, affordable health care, peace, opportunity, safety, social security) he still is urging us hope in the government, and not in the ( Read more... )

Our Lord and Savior has many names: Christ, Messiah, Jesus, Son of David, Prince of Peace, Lamb of God, Lion of Judah, Good Shepherd, the Word, and so on. So great ( Read more... )

Son Lux show at Calvin (Gezon Auditorium) was ASTONISHINGLY good. One of my favorite concerts of all time, up there with Sufjan Stevens + Anathallo @ Calvin FAC, Project 86 @ Skelletones, and the Psalters @ AAAG.

God will carry me through finals and end of school year obligations as if on a breeze. [The "on a breeze" part is a joke-- I don't anticipate a breezy time, but perhaps in hindsight this perspective will seem to have a semblance of truth. Regardless, God will certainly carry me through. (See how convoluted I have become at this moment ( Read more... )