I came across a pretty interesting piece today on the importance of proximity and background (e.g., race, religion, similar experiences) on in forming friendships. The reporter is looking particularly at how this plays out in college and the longevity of those friendships, but the general data is applicable across the board. As we talk about …
Location – a poem
people speak while light reflects voices mesh, merge, and rebound in, around, and into my ears cars surge back and forth going somewhere fast to nowhere in particular place in relation to place finds its significance only in relationship of place to place location dismembered from relative locality loses identity it is all relationally locative …
God: Here and Now Fully Present
After an especially busy time in my life, I sort of hit a wall with all of the planning and scheduling I was doing. There was so much logistical business and organization that my head had simply become numb. These are the points I tend to arrive at where I feel as if I am …
What Will Endure?
In the beginning You laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands. They will perish, but You remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing You will change them and they will be discarded. But You remain the same, and Your years will never end. …
What Makes a Good Blog?
I subscribe to a magazine called Collide that looks at the impact of new media and technology on ministry and the church. As someone who works with ministry to adults in the church and also with various aspects of Sunday worship, I have found the magazine and web-site to be useful in a variety of …
Matthew Erickson 