The season 'tis upon us again. The season of rampant consumerism, family feuding and driving (or flying) hundreds of miles to see relatives that you don't really remember and probably could do without seeing.

Here it is no more than a few days after Thanksgiving (at the time of this writing) and t...

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What other job can you think of where you get free candy all day? And not just candy, but chocolate and snacks and anything else made by the company I work for. (To avoid possible backlash, I'm going to avoid mentioning the company by name here. From here on out we'll call it "Venus".) All this as a...

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(O God, Where Are You Now?)

So, today I'm doing some computer work in the world's most home-like jail.

Seriously. Clinton County, Kentucky's jail is in a house, with cells built onto the back. The bedrooms have been converted to hold food, there's industrial tiling throughout the kitchen and liv...

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(Or, worship is not Chris Tomlin and a VOX amp, part two1)

What comes to mind when you think of a worship service?

Perhaps you were raised in a church where the worship service consisted of a leader and a choir, and being directed to "turn to hymn number three-forty-seven in your hymnal" while s...

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(Or, worship is not Chris Tomlin and a VOX amp. Part one)

I've been in Nashville almost a week now, and I've already found a church.

It's a fairly large church. They do two services per week in an auditorium that seats at least 1200. The worship service was your average Willow Creek Association...

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