“Praying Drunk”

10 Jul

John Piper has a great voice for reading poetry.
It turns out his son does too.
Karsten Piper has started a new (audio) poetry blog. You should check it out.

Blank verse today like rats on stilts, except , of course, it’s beautiful.

Laugh if you like, but this is often the poem I think of when I hear William Wordsworth’s well-known definition of poetry: “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”  Because one overflows late at night and well-sloshed, but re … Read More

via Belly up, it’s A Poetry Feed.

Will the real Mars Hill please stand up?

27 Jun

Props to Ridley Mission & Ministry College for throwing together a great debate just on a month ago…

The Ridley students’ association, ‘Logs’, organises occasional debates for the college community, and on 27 May, we asked, ‘Will the real Mars Hill please stand up?’  Mark Driscoll leads Mars Hill Church (Seattle) and Rob Bell leads Mars Hill Bible Church (Grand Rapids).  Both churches are named after Paul’s visit to Mars Hill in Acts 17, a pioneering moment in mission and cultural engagement.  Yet the two churches, not to mention Driscoll and Be … Read More

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Looking Like Love

22 Jun

When I was in my early teens a younger friend at church started to imitate me.

He started by adopting some of my interests, some of my sayings –  but before long he was wearing the same clothes and sporting the same ridiculously-over-gelled haristyle. Continue reading →

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