I was reading The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning again and ran across this section that relates to my previous blog entry:
 
    Perhaps the real dichotomy in the Christian community today is not between conservatives and liberals or creationists and evolutionists but between the awake and the asleep. The Christian ragamuffin acknowledges with MacBeth: “Life [...]

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At times, I think life is a process where we slowly develop pride in ourselves and then an external incident breaks down our pride and brings us into a state of humbleness. It is within this humbleness when we truly begin to understand and we are truly able to worship. It is then when we [...]

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I was recently at Crosswalk.com and I ran across an article about secular music. I have heard several stories of people throwing away their secular CD’s when they became Christian or started to really walk with the Lord, and that is perfectly fine if that’s their conviction, but I found these guidelines interesting:
 

Take secular music [...]

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Having recently watched High Fidelity, staring John Cusack and Jack Black, I have decided to make a top 5 album list. This is an extremely, extremely difficult task for me given my fondness for music and the weight I put on an artist for being able to make a “complete” album. Here’s my list:
1. Indigo [...]

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In his book The Ragamuffin Gospel, Brennan Manning discusses a childlike faith and states:
“If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in other denominations and reilgions. We don’t find demons in those with whom we disagree. We don’t cozy up to people [...]

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