The Wired Wanderings of a Postmodern Pilgrim
Posted in American Culture, Postmodern Perspectives, Wired Jesus Podcast on Sep 29th, 2007
As I mention in the podcast, I am a big foodie and in this podcast I reflect on two of my favorite “food” shows – Feasting on Asphalt with Alton Brown and Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations. The thing that fascinates me about both shows and both hosts is that it is just ongoing evidence is […]
Posted in American Culture on Sep 11th, 2006
With everything going today with all the news shows and observances, there are plenty of opinions about what 9-11 means today and memories of when it happened. It was just a little eerie to hear CNN stream its 9-11 broadcast online in real time. Looks like its still going on as I write this. Me? […]
Posted in American Culture, Its All About Me!, Wired Jesus Podcast on Aug 25th, 2006
Its been a long time coming, almost two months but here’s a new Wired Jesus. It goes into where I’ve been and what I’ve been up to since this move as well as some personal insights into over-commitment. Sometimes we (meaning I 🙂 ) forget that rest is an important part of life and staying […]
Posted in American Culture, Uncategorized, Will the Real God Please Stand Up? on Jan 19th, 2006
What’s up with this? First its Pat Robertson… Pat Robertson Warns Pa. Town of Disaster Nov 11 2:48 AM US/Eastern Email this story VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson warned residents of a rural Pennsylvania town Thursday that disaster may strike there because they “voted God out of your city” by ousting school board […]
Posted in American Culture, Music, Wired Jesus Podcast on Dec 23rd, 2005
Since Brian and Jen were having so much fun with the blog entry and our local paper asked me to weigh in on the issue of Christmas Day being cancelled, I decided to end the year with this podcast. Got some choice comedy bits in (one by Steve Martin has some low key adult subject […]
Posted in American Culture, Heaven, Hell, and Afterlife Pasttimes on Dec 21st, 2005
Its seems Barbara Walters has done the definitive work on faith and life after death and the verdict is… she won’t give her own opinion. I got bit of a chuckle out of that yesterday when she appeared on Good Morning America and she was asked if she believed in heaven and her answer was, […]
Posted in American Culture on Dec 8th, 2005
A while back I came a cross a story that said that megachurches like Willow Creek were closing for the summer because it was bad for people’s schedules. Turned out the story was a satire by The Holy Observer but many of us bought because it sounded so incredibly plausible. Well, satire has become reality. […]
Posted in American Culture, Music, Wired Jesus Podcast on Dec 6th, 2005
Here is the first follow up to the Soundtracks of Life Episode I did. It includes a clip from the Daily Source Code as well as some Disney Park music. What I play with is how the innocent music of Disney does much more than infect your brain, like “Its a Small World” getting stuck […]
Posted in American Culture, Will the Real God Please Stand Up?, Wired Jesus Podcast on Sep 1st, 2005
Here are my reflections on Katrina and the age old question of if there is a God, why do things like this happen. My proposal at the end of the podcast is that if you know of ways beyond just giving money to help with the relief effort, send me the links. Rebuilding, equipment convoys […]
Posted in American Culture on May 9th, 2005
Life gets complicated – joys of living in the 21st Century. Still going to do the postmodern language podcast – hopefully tomorrow.