(Thank you Amanda, aka greyescape, for reminding me of this lovely cummings poem ( Read more... )

Well, folks, I've started a new blog. That doesn't mean that this one will go obsolete (not that I post on a regular basis), as I certainly want to keep track of my livejournal friends. But I'll mostly post more personal, day-to-day stuff here now, whereas my blog will be more focused on a tangential aspect of my work at Calvin ( Read more... )

It may shock you to learn this: I spent the latter years of my high school career employed at the Sacred Book and Gift Shop. And I was into it, man.

In honor of this revelation, I give you The Christian Retail Blog, by my friend Ben, with whom I spent many hours of verbal sparring in the newspaper office at our university ( Read more... )

a very-funny from the post-election prairie home companion:

"I am now the chairman of a national campaign to pass a constitutional amendment to take the right to vote away from born-again Christians. Just a little project of mine. My feeling is that born-again people are citizens of heaven, that's where their citizenship is, in heaven--not here, ( Read more... )

canada, please annex the blue states!

[via happy2beso]

"One element of the correction for a self-justifying and self-accrediting pragmatism is a mood of doxology or trust, in which believing behavior is seen as an effect and not only as a cause ( Read more... )

This is my Father's world.
O let me ne'er forget
that though the wrong seems oft so strong,
God is the ruler yet.
-maltbie babcock

if i believe in anything anymore, it is this. and, when a righteously indignant moment hits me, this ( Read more... )

i'm pretty sure library science is where it's at.

i realized i never recorded my recollections and ruminations of the last two years with nathan in this journal, as i said i would. so here.

looking up an address in my archived email today, i came across this bit from something i wrote to my friend joanna (empressbeth), not even a month into our relationship. what's amazing is that i still love now the ( Read more... )

interested in getting some info about the second biennial festival?

i am mailing out information today--email me (keb6 at calvin dot edu) with your address and i'll send you stuff!