When my grandmother died on Jan. 3rd, 2005 and for the months after, the pictures of her on the piano, in the garage, didn’t mean much to me. I wanted to see HER, not her pictures. That’s changing. This morning, while playing the piano, I kept looking at a picture of her, looking like I […]

Welcome back. Live from the Biola-Talbot Emerging Church Conference, it’s going well. We’re on our lunch break (pasta and salad, not bad). There are about 400 of us here, under a hot canopy on the Biola lawn. The WWF of the Emergent world (as Spencer Burke called this) has begun and it’s been all it

Welcome back. Live from the Biola-Talbot Emerging Church Conference, it’s going well. We’re on our lunch break (pasta and salad, not bad). There are about 400 of us here, under a hot canopy on the Biola lawn. The WWF of the Emergent world (as Spencer Burke called this) has begun and it’s been all it

Welcome back. From David at Origins. This is how I feel about Long Beach. It’s not just that I grew up here, it’s what the city does, who it is, it’s art, it’s diversity, it’s complexity, the fact that Long Beach is a tough city to reach, to understand, it’s dark, secular, yet so hungry,

Welcome back. From David at Origins. This is how I feel about Long Beach. It’s not just that I grew up here, it’s what the city does, who it is, it’s art, it’s diversity, it’s complexity, the fact that Long Beach is a tough city to reach, to understand, it’s dark, secular, yet so hungry,

The helicopters have stopped circling the area. This whole thing went down on Redondo and Anaheim at the parking lot of a Pollo Loco. I know that area very well. I’ve eaten at that Pollo Loco. It seemed the suspect was headed inside the crowded restaurant with a second gun in his hand. If that

The helicopters have stopped circling the area. This whole thing went down on Redondo and Anaheim at the parking lot of a Pollo Loco. I know that area very well. I’ve eaten at that Pollo Loco. It seemed the suspect was headed inside the crowded restaurant with a second gun in his hand. If that

Welcome back. Look no further, this is emergent preaching at it’s best. I wish the “hell conversation” going on in the blogosphere was this poignant and applicable…right from the Book of Revelation to a world that knows this is true…and needs hope amidst the evil around us. Into the future, davidT Pope Benedict on Satan

Welcome back. Look no further, this is emergent preaching at it’s best. I wish the “hell conversation” going on in the blogosphere was this poignant and applicable…right from the Book of Revelation to a world that knows this is true…and needs hope amidst the evil around us. Into the future, davidT Pope Benedict on Satan

Welcome back. My dad was born in the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua, in a town called Bluefields. The people there, called Miskitos are of a dark, roasted, tough, bright complexion, darker than the Mestizos (mixture of Spanish and native ‘indian’) of Managua. I am a mixture of Miskito and Mestizo (on my mom’s side). I