Recently on a YWAM missions trip, the speaker made us perform an experiment, an outlandishly uncomfortable experiment. In order to accustomize us fully to the presence of those around us, we were asked to make eye contact, with either a stranger or someone we knew, for one full minute. One full minute.

Deepak Chopra and The Third Jesus – Part I

The false dichotomy is either the most common mistake that plagues clear thinking, or Deepak Chopra has written a new book that re-tells a very old story about Jesus.

I was speaking with Dan about kids and families and we were marveling at the fact that there are so many animal species whose young are forced to walk and run within hours of being born. It’s a survival thing of course. If they couldn’t walk soon after birth, they would become another animal’s tasty num-nums.

Hi. I am TheOtherDan. There was already a Dan, so I had to choose another, how do you say... 'name'.

I just wanted to take this opportunity to welcome myself, and you - the reader - to my blog entry. I actually have lots to say, but I don't have the time to say it right now becuase I am hanging with the other Dan, who you know simply as 'Dan'. It sounds complicated. It is. We are unrelated brothers joined in our twenties.

TTFN
TheOtherDan

I recently returned from a week with my family in Southern California. The time was almost without the slightest lack. But there was one, and it got me thinking. My family visited Disneyland (predictably, I know) for three days. On the last day we spent some time at California Adventure, which is the sister park on the Disneyland site. It is geared much more to older children, teens and adults, but there was also plenty to do with my children, ages 5 and 7.

Last night, around a neighbour's fire pit and after a friendly bar-b-q, a rather rustic yokel put a question to me - one I, as a professional philosopher and theologian, have encountered before. "Why would anyone want to study philosophy?" he lancinated, with more than a little animosity. I deflected his response, not wanting to incite a riot (there were other PhD's around the fire), and after all, he was several drinks in: "Perhaps a person might want to open a bait shop," I joked. "You know, a 'philosophy and bait shop'." Everyone laughed. But not my irritated friend.