by Chris Walters | Dec 6, 2010 | Art, Sermons
This morning we heard one of the most famous passages in the Bible, Isaiah chapter 11, a passage often called the “Peaceable Kingdom.” In this passage the prophet envisions a peaceful, harmonious world where animals that are normally predator and prey lay down with...
by Chris Walters | Feb 17, 2010 | Politics, Pop Culture, Sermons
We have all witnessed over the years several prominent public figures repenting—or seemingly repenting—of their misdeeds on the television. Whether it is a politician like Bill Clinton, Rod Blagojevich, or more recently Scott Lee Cohen, or a sports figure like Tiger...
by Chris Walters | Jun 27, 2009 | Pop Culture
This morning in preparing for viewing and discussing Bill Maher’s Religulous with our movie group from church, I decided to write something on two red herrings in the movie because they’re related to two of my biggest pet peeves: manipulation of the Bible...
by Chris Walters | Apr 20, 2009 | Technology, Theology
Like many people I am fascinated with Wordle. I thought it would be interesting to copy-and-paste my thesis into Wordle and play around with it to see how close I could get to a visual Wordle expression of the ideas in my thesis. The intriguing thing with Wordle is...
by Chris Walters | Feb 2, 2006 | Bible, Satire
I had an interesting dialog today, if I can call it that, with a person on the message boards of a well-known web portal (can I be more safe in not disclosing the details?). Stemming from a story about muslim outrage over cartoon depictions of the prophet Muhammad,...