This summer we’ve had a more relaxed dress code at Central to go along with our Summer of 66’ theme. I bought a pair of red TOMS shoes that I was excited to bring out a few times. I ended up wearing them once. I was taken aback by the response I got from people on them. Sure, I realized that they weren’t your normal shoe, but I thought they were fun and they fit the series well. Needless to…

Whenever I get notified that someone new is following my twitter account, I look at their Twitter stats and I draw some conclusions. To begin with, you might assume I’d check how many Tweets you’ve actually posted yourself… but I don’t care about that as much as how many people you are following. If you follow more than 100 people, you don’t actually read your tweets. At least not with any sense of efficiency. You probably view Twitter more as…

“There’s certainly a war against the prevalence of visual pornography in many corners of our society—especially in the Christian culture. There is an attempt to expose pornography for its promotion of unrealistic sexual expectations and exploitation of human sexuality. And that attempt is a very necessary one. But what about the unhealthy emotional and relational expectations portrayed in so much of our media? Is there really much of a difference in the hyperbolized sexual imagery of typical pornography and the…

There has been much typing done in the online world since Sunday night’s grand finale to the 6 seasons of the show Lost. Most of what I’ve seen on Facebook and Twitter seems to show me that the general feeling is that people are let down with the ending. The question we are really wrestling with is “What did the ending owe us?” I’ll add my perspective to the growing conversation. Spoilers ahead. First, Lost did NOT owe us all…

Like many other people right now, I am fascinated by the show Lost. In case you aren’t up to date on it, the show is in it’s sixth and final season. It is a show that creates exponential amounts of questions for every few answers that it gives…but they tell us that answers are coming. Season five elevated a new focus of light vs. dark that has added an exciting new element. For those of you that are fans of…