Wading through life

“What if somebody hacked my Mac and turned on my video camera and broadcast me singing, talking to myself, blowing my nose and randomly praying throughout the day?”

There’s a magazine out there called Relevant that I had a subscription to a while back. The magazine’s Web site used to be my home page and my MySpace page used to apply their theme. The magazine and its Web-equivalent was, last I checked (which has been a while), all about a Christian slant on pop culture . They review and reflect on music, news, movies, media (some of it “Christian”, some of it not), etc… through a supposed Biblical filter. I liked the concept of the “relevant” Christian and found it to be a good resource.

Well, over the years, I’ve decided that Relevant and the whole myth of culturally-rooted, relevant Christianity is actually quite irrelevant—both to the world and in the pursuit of Christlikeness.

This topic came up on blog I subscribe to and I took the opportunity to voice my thoughts. I’m not sure I’ve shared them before on this blog, so here’s a link to Boundless.org’s: Trend Management or Transformation?, where you can read them. Depending on where the comment conversation goes, I might be posting more on there.

(As I indicate in my comment, which is the first one below the blog, I really liked what Gary Thomas has to say on the topic, though I haven’t read his article in its entirety yet. On another topic, I also really liked what Thomas had to say in his great book “Sacred Marriage: What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy, which was required reading at the Focus on the Family Institute. I highly recommend it.)

Like how to protect the world’s seeds from global catastrophe.

But somebody has. Somebody laid awake at night, wondering where one could stockpile seeds should the world fall into nuclear winter, or global warming took over, or aliens from Mars stormed the planet.

And so they blew a giant hole in mountainside permafrost and are going refrigerate it down to 0° F and rest easy that we’ll be able to grow wheat and barley after Planet Earth recovers from Armageddon.

Actually, I don’t know if someone laid awake at night or was worried about aliens from Mars destroying all our corn. But they are making a big cave in Norway to store seeds.

Read about it: Doomsday seed bank gears up for business.

I can’t believe I’ve been blogging all these years with a typo in my tag line. I just realized I had the apostrophe by “80″ on the wrong side.

I just changed it, so you won’t be able to see the error, but it said “…until an ’80 tidal wave…” rather than the correct “…until an 80′ tidal wave…” No… I wasn’t talking about a wave from the year 1980. I was talking about an 80-foot tidal wave.

Did anyone else notice this? Was it like the crumb on a person’s lip you feel awkward telling the person about?

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