• 10 Questions With Dustin Jacoby (10/16/2011)

    10 Questions With Dustin Jacoby (by Darrick Patrick)Dustin Jacoby is a professional mixed martial artist who has competed in organizations such as Capital City Cage Wars, Annihilation Productions, Xtreme Fighting Organization, and Disorderly Conduct. At the time of this interview, his next schedule…
  • A Christian Blogging Manifesto

    By Nick Don at Theopolitical In the preface to his book Allah: A Christian Response, Miroslav Volf puts forward several caveats about how he intends, as a Christian, to write about Islam. As I read the caveats, I felt a great deal of resonance with the way I have tried to write about the great vari…
  • Christians and Charitable Discussion: Fulfilling Spener's Wish

    There was once a man named Philip Jakob Spener. He was a pietist and he had a few wishes. These wishes were found in the preface to a collection of sermons by another cool guy. One of Spener's wishes was that we would employ both restraint and charity in controversy. Spener lived in a time when head…
  • An Open Letter to Revelife: Can We Commit to Communicate Carefully?

    Dear fellow Revelifers,I've been disappointed in a lot of comments on this website as of late. I know there are many in the midst who don't believe Christ is Lord or who don't live according to the ways of God's scripture and so I don't expect to see a jaw-dropping love overwhelming the forums but I…
  • Patience in forgiveness

    Do you ever just live life to keep hearing a subject repeatedly come in conversations you are having or even around you? A topic I keep hearing about is Patience. One can think they have it until it is tested with people or situations where it is needed. Then it still may not be evident to them…
  • Four Way Street

    "Okay folks," I said out loud. "You all got here before me." My eyes dart from side to side, then back to the front. Car 1, directly across from me is chatting to the air and applying something to her lips. "Cell phone and makeup" I mutter. Car 2 is pointing to the park with a small child pee…
  • Complaints About the Church?

    Romans 14:18--19 (NASB) 'For he who in this way serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men. So then let us pursue the things which make for peace and the building up of one another.' Of course, these two verses make no sense without our reading verse 17 from yesterday, 'for the kingdom…
  • * "Song Bird" edit:…

    * "Song Bird" edit: i have read these transcripts straight up, but liked Kevin Tracey's take on them best. what we have here is the taped and written words of then P.O.W John McCain as he repeatedly is given special treatment from his captors due to his family lineage and father's military…
  • Favorite quotes.

    Quotes have always been a hidden interest of mine. Something about particular phrases opens the doors to realms of thought that others have not tread. You can always derive a sense of wisdom or cleverness from such phrases. "Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all." - Alexander Th…