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About Me

I FINALLY just finished my Masters degree from Wheaton College and moved back to big D where I plan on teaching in college. My passion is doing Christian ministry through teaching and writing.

My Interests

Christianity, history, writing, philosophy, poetry, sociology, church history, history, music, movies, Bible, Jesus, politics, reading, coffee

I'd like to meet:

SHATNER! Paul Simon and Billy Graham

Music:

all kinds

Movies:

the list is endless but I'm a partial to action/adventure movies, good dramas, and comodies

Television:

Seinfeld, Lost, The Cosby Show, Family Ties, and a lot of the stuffy that comes on the History Channel or the Discovery Channel

Books:

The Bible, The Collection of Robert Frost, Empowered Evangelicals, anything by George Marsden, Mark Noll, or C.S. Lewis

My Blog

Prosperity and Prominence in the Church?

Since the 1980s there has been an increased emphasis within the Church (especially in America) in the idea of financial prosperity and individual prominence. The idea has been most aggressively p...
Posted by David on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 01:19:00 PST

Ode to Mr. Rogers

Okay, this is a reallllllly long blog, but I'm in a writing mood so if you're in the mood to read, be my guest! My professor posed a great question to my class recently that made me think. She ...
Posted by David on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 08:19:00 PST

Lord, what color shirt should I wear??

Have you ever wondered, what does it look like to be lead by God? I'm "cursed". Okay, "cursed" may be a little strong, but sometimes it feels like I am cursed because of my Pentecostal/Charismatic Chr...
Posted by David on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 01:08:00 PST

Rediscovering Puritanism

My perceptions of eighteenth-century Puritans have always been pretty stereo-typical. I imagined these people with cold stony faces who had no emotion and were conservative to the core, pretty much li...
Posted by David on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 01:06:00 PST

Empowered Evangelicals

Empowered Evangelicals Empowered Evangelicals By Rich Nathan & Ken Wilson (Forward written by J.I. Packard) Okay, I'm going to quote a passage in one of the best "Christian" books I've ever read,...
Posted by David on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 01:03:00 PST

Some great poems

Here is some of my favorite poems. Hope you enjoy... Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening By Robert Frost Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me ...
Posted by David on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:59:00 PST