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4th Avenue Jones Stereo (2005): Does It Still Hold Up?

I pulled 4th Avenue Jones' Stereo: The Evolution of HipRockSoul out of my old CD binder, a 2005 hip hop, soul, jazz and rock album I hadn't touched in over a decade, then had one of my students listen to it. Here's how it holds up.

What to Do When You Make a Mistake You Can’t Undo

Day four of Inktober, the daily ink drawing challenge, and a green blotch showed up on the back of my page. I figured I'd wrecked the whole book. The blotch had other ideas. This week: what to do when a mistake is already on the paper and more work is stacked up behind it. https://youtu.be/Lb8tKhJz0Z8 … Continue reading What to Do When You Make a Mistake You Can’t Undo

YFN Collaboration CD from 2002 next to a black MP3 player showing the album, with the Rediscovering Music headphones logo

YFN Collaboration CD (2002): A CFNI Student Worship Album

I dug out my old CD binder and listened to one worship CD from 2002 all week. YFN Collaboration was made by Christ For The Nations Institute students for a summer camp I grew up on. Here's what a week with it did to me.

Celeste from Geek Devotions makes a thoughtful expression for the episode Getting the Full Story, about how The Hunger Games echoes the Bible's one story

The Hunger Games Was Never About Katniss

It was never really about Katniss. The Hunger Games tells five stories that build to one, and so does scripture. Here's how the fall of Panem echoes something scripture has been doing since Genesis.

A 17-year-old senior Border Collie mix named Lucy resting comfortably, representing compassion and animal stewardship in Ultraman Teo.

Tales of Dale: Ultraman Teo, Senior Dogs, and God’s Care for Animals

A little over a year after buying our house, my wife and I were blessed with Lucy. Now seventeen years old, her frailty is a constant reminder of the responsibility, love, and compassion we owe to living creatures—a lesson echoed in the tokusatsu series Ultraman Teo and rooted deeply in biblical stewardship.