ordinary extraordinary

Here’s a thought: In the Ubahn between Görlitzer Bahnhof and Schlesiches Tor, I sat reading the first sentences of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and was completely blown away by the transition between looking down at the page, at her exquisite sentences gleaming, twining there like strands of liquid emerald running pages long, and then [...]

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f#*&ing offend me, if you please

Last week I read an article from Seattle in the NY Times about the indie-hip rock star conservative pastor of Mars Hill Church, Mark Driscoll, long a thorn in the side of liberal Christians. The article was entitled “Who Would Jesus Smack Down?” and talked about Driscoll’s unorthodox methods of condemning sin through shocking sermon [...]

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