When Distractions Overtake Us
Some of you know that I love pie. This past Fall our school had a fund-raiser with Elegant Farmer pies and someone in our family bought six just to be on the safe side to make sure that we would have enough. We worked through those pies as a family over the course of the winter. …
A Letter from Prison (Philippians, pt 1)
Over the next several weeks, I'm going to share some thoughts from Paul's letter to the Philippians. These posts are personal reflections taken from devotional reading of the book. At the beginning of his letter to the Philippian believers, Paul is eminently thankful and joyful: verse 3: "I thank my God in all my remembrances …
Neil Postman on form and the shaping of culture
From Neil Postman's classic, Amusing Ourselves to Death: In studying the Bible as a young man, I found intimations of the idea that forms of media favor particular kinds of content and therefore are capable of taking command of culture. I refer specifically to the Decalogue, the Second Commandment of which prohibits the Israelites from making …
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When God Became Our Neighbor
This weekend at Eastbrook, we began a new 4-week series entitled "Will You Be My Neighbor?" This series is an extended reflection on how Jesus' call to love God and love our neighbor works its way out into the ordinary context of our neighborhoods. I began the series this weekend by looking at the call …
Matthew Erickson 