lowercase people.

So I stumbled upon lowercase people, a digital magazine for artists in action. What grabbed my attention is that the site’s art is designed by Bill Caywood, a guy I hung out with during the high school years in Ohio. Talented guy, and an interesting project all the way around. Check it out.

What the hell happens in heaven?

Scot McKnight from North Park University is blogging about the study of heaven, a topic he says was inspired, in part, by NT Wright’s Surprised by Hope. Maybe the most interesting thing about McKnight’s posts are the heart-on-the-sleeve remarks in the comments section.

I haven’t read Surprised by Hope yet, but there are some interesting books on eternity out there.

The Death of Death by Rabbi Neil Gillman is among the best.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exploring Heaven by Arthur O. Roberts draws some interesting conclusions about bodily existence. And Peter Kreeft’s Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Heaven is a good primer/conversation starter.

I’ll post more books another time. (Though a lot of it is inter-testamental stuff that you probably can’t buy from a normal bookstore.) But really, start with Gillman.

And then maybe some day I’ll have a slow day and I can post my senior thesis at Gordon, a paper on the role of sexuality and interpersonal relationships in eternal life. Cross your fingers. What cannot be posted here – for better or worse – is the catchy, off-color song I sang to my senior seminar class before presenting my paper.

Sex, drugs, and organ music

Good post by Dan Kimball on the use of organs in musical worship.

The Lombardi Trophy

Too much theological blogging lately. Let’s lighten up with some NFL forecasting.

I went through each game of the regular season and made my predictions so that, rather than just making a season-wide generalization (“Yeah, I bet the Colts win 14 games…”), my game-by-game basis leaves room to be surprised by the ways that difficulty of schedule or coasting into the playoffs affect a team’s record.

The lack of bias in my opinion is evidenced by my least favorite team in all of sports winning the Super Bowl. So yeah, this isn’t what I want to see happen this year, but it’s what I think is most likely.
 

AFC NORTH

Cleveland 11-5

Pittsburgh 10-6

Baltimore 4-12

Cincinnati 4-12

 

AFC EAST

New England 11-5

Buffalo 11-5 *wild-card

New York Jets 11-5 *wild-card

Miami 4-12

 

AFC SOUTH

Indianapolis 11-5 * bye

Tennessee 10-6

Jacksonville 10-6

Houston   8-8

 

AFC WEST

San Diego 11-5 *bye

Oakland 7-9

Kansas City 5-11

Denver 5-11

 

NFC NORTH

Minnesota 11-5 *bye

Green Bay 11-5 *wild-card

Detroit 6-10

Chicago 3-13

 

NFC EAST

Washington 10-6 

New York Giants 9-7 *wild-card

Dallas 9-7

Philadelphia 6-10

 

NFC SOUTH

New Orleans 10-6 *bye

Carolina   8-8

Tampa Bay   7-9

Atlanta   6-10

 

NFC WEST

Seattle   9-7

Arizona   8-8

St. Louis   6-10

San Francisco   4-12

 

Playoffs

PATRIOTS over Bills

BROWNS over Jets

Giants over REDSKINS

SEAHAWKS over Packers

 

Browns over CHARGERS

Patriots over COLTS

VIKINGS over Giants

Seahawks over SAINTS

 

PATRIOTS over Browns

VIKINGS over Seahawks

 

Patriots over Vikings