Elbow Drop
About professional wrestling I know next to nothing. However, when it comes to amateur wrestling, I am quite gifted. *Disclaimer: I’m not really talking about wrestling where you put on the tight unitards. I’m talking about spiritual wrestling.
Sunday Question
Hey Blueviners, on this Sunday morning we want to hear from you. How do you experience connection or conversation with God? Is it in nature? Where specifically? Or what does it feel like? Is it through music, friendships or an activity? There’s no right or wrong answers, so let us know your thoughts in the comments, [...]
Justice or Charity?
There is a book called On The Move which is Bono’s speech to the 2006 National Prayer Breakfast set to images. I have taken this work and used images from my own travels in the developing world (and U2 shows), and created a traveling presentation that we are currently working on digitizing to share in [...]
Coming Into My Own (And What Is That, Exactly?)
Miss Meg Goes to Washington Meg Biallas If you’ve ever played Trivial Pursuit, you know that each game piece is a different color. Each piece has its own compartment. In high school, my youth group had a retreat centered on that theme: striving for authenticity in a compartmentalized world. But as I’ve grown up, my [...]
So Much Love
Miss Meg Goes to Washington Meg Biallas Something about this video gets me every time. One of my high school friends, Josh Schroyer produced this “lipdub” media project at Calvin College this spring. Maybe it’s the cute guy at 00:30 or the addictive beat. Or maybe I’m just impressed that his team choreographed a few [...]
If there is no afterlife.
The Wrinkles of the Road By Matt Peyton Last week I got the chance to listen to a talk by Quaker Pastor and author Philip Gulley. He shared a lot of powerful ideas, but one in particular has stuck in my mind. When asked about his thoughts on the afterlife, after a reflective pause he [...]
Too Much is Not Enough
Soul Searching By Stanley Abell Because in between the lines I’m gonna pack more lines “Too Much” ~Dave Matthews Do you remember Mr. Creosote from the Monty Python Movie The Meaning of Life? The aptly named movie was Monty Python’s satirical prodding of life’s priorities careening out of control—too much is not enough in our [...]
Father’s Day
Cultivating Mindfulness By Lisa Maas We just celebrated Father’s Day and I’ve been thinking about all the fathers in my life. I am blessed with so many. There is, of course, my husband Michael, an amazing father. There is my dad, J.D., and there is my step-dad, Larry, who I was grateful to call Dad [...]
Is That You God
Soul Searching By Stanley Abell I was lost between the midnight and the dawning In a place of no consequence or company 3:33 when the numbers fell off the clock face Speed-dialing with no signal at all Unknown Caller, U2 Do you remember the old joke about the guy ice fishing very early in the [...]