there will be blood

Lauren and I went and saw There Will Be Blood this weekend. I had been wanting to check this movie out for a few months now. It was not an easy movie to watch, and it took a lot out me in that I felt drained after it was over. But it was so [...]

‘08 mlb preview

I was perusing the SI Baseball preview the other day, and the cover featured some players drafted in the highly touted ‘05 draft. Players like Justin Upton, Alex Gordon, Ryan Zimmerman, Ryan Braun, Troy Tulowitzki, Jacoby Ellsbury and Clay Bucholz, all of whom are in the big leagues making major impacts on their teams. This [...]

welcome to ‘the stoop’

stoop
noun
- a small raised platform, approached by steps and sometimes having a roof and seats, at the entrance of a house; a small porch.
I have been racking my brains over the past couple of days to come up with a clever, unique and personal title for this blog [yeah I know, I've been real [...]

extras

Over the past month or so, I have made my way through both series of Extras, and just last night we watched the Christmas Special wrap up.
Most people have heard of the Office [thanks to Michael, Dwight, Jim and Pam], but the brains behind the original [and better] UK version were none other than [...]

to bless the nations

I started reading Jesus For President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals the other night. The basic idea of the book is reminiscient of what Randall Balmer said in his lecture @ Prov a couple of weeks ago, that bad things can and probably will happen when the Church cozies up with the State, and that the [...]

Ian, staff of ‘08

I didn’t have a proper picture for the Prov yearbook, so I asked my friend Jon [who happens to be putting the yearbook together] to work it out for me.
Here’s my likeness, nicely positioned outside my office.
I haven’t talked to him yet to see if this will actually make it in, but I am seriously [...]

one month

In exactly one month, Lauren and I will be heading back to Ontario.
I am looking out my office window, and if I didn’t know better, I would think that April 24th is a long way off. There are mad flurries coming down, and some crazy wind to blow the white stuff around. But, I know [...]

what i said before my baptism

Happy Easter!
This Easter was a special one for me, as I was baptized this morning. For those friends and family members who weren’t able to be there, here is what I shared prior to the act.
Good morning. For those of you who don’t know me personally, my name is Ian, and it is a privilege [...]

a Good Friday

Much like last year, the Good Friday service at FaithWorks involved a participation in the stations of the cross. And once again, it was a very meaningful experience. Here are a few things that stood out:
The Politics of the Cross: I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, and was struck today by the chief [...]

hillsong @ the movies

Hillsong United is set to unveil a multi-pronged web / media initiative called I Heart Revolution, which consists of a) a double CD live recording of songs that have already been previously released, b) a 2 disc DVD of those songs, and c) “a global online community where at any moment you can see what [...]