The Simpleton Blog

Pastor’s Bookshelf - Welcome to my bookshelf!  Each month I will discuss a recent book that I’ve finished.   This month I’d like to talk about  Finding God’s Life For My Will By Mike Donehey Mike Donehey is probably best known as the lead singer for a Christian music group called Tenth Avenue North. I had heard of them, but didn’t know their music very well (I think my wife had listened to them more than I did), but then years ago we went and saw them on the free night at Uni

When I was a kid, there was this adorable disney pixar movie that came out called Monster Inc. - it was such a fun, novel idea. We enter the world of monsters who are all a little bit cute, and they have this elaborate system of creating doors into kid’s bedrooms to scare them, because screams are electricity for monsters. And when I was little, in the movie a kid gets loose in the monster world and causes all kinds of havoc. Fast forward ten years - I am a grown adult, marri

How do you define what is good?  How do you know when something is right or wrong? By what standard do you draw the boundaries of morality in your life? [And for some of you here today - by the end of this I may have an invitation for you to an entirely new standard] . I started reading this book recently called Dominion: how the Christian revolution remade the world, written by an atheist/agonistic historian named Tom Holland. Well - he was an atheist when he started. In fac