"My love is a kind of blind love" - but actually it's not a blind love, it's a very sighted love, a love that sees in you what I want there to be, but which does not merely see, for beyond that there's an ineffable quality of you being you and me being me that now joins we two and will someday make three. Sing the first line to the tune of The Flamingos' "I Only Have Eyes For You" and then improvise a melody from there. It's fun if you try :)...

This is a blast from the past. Scroll down about halfway to hear me talking about TechMission for the first time. I also mention having a "crazy dancing wedding" with "my as-yet-unknown bride-to-be". I was an interesting person back in 2006 - still me, but I'm glad I'm here now, instead of where I was back then. I was better about blogging back then, though....

He who loses his mind will save it - "In this world, you will have trouble, but take heart, I have overcome the world." While we hope in ourselves, our hope is hopeless, our comfort is crushed. But when death has fully conquered, Christ bears us on His Cross. His weakness then becomes our strength - As our strength has brought Him into weakness. Love said the word that laid the nails Cut cross-wise, pierced that we might see His grace as greater than our hate And, by His horror, be justified. Now in His debt we live in peace - Remade as selves, one family. Distinct in wants yet one in grace, His gifting flows out, multiplies. We live apart to save the world - To save in Christ, who draws us all. We save in love, spirit and truth, Reconciling, loving the Other. And in all this,...

In a conversation with my roommate tonight about the ever contentious and ill-defined ideal of "social justice", he said something quite insightful: "I actually agree with Ronald Reagan that government is not the solution. But I don't believe that government is the problem." I would add to his statement: "People are the problem." In my understanding of Reformed social thought, church, state, business, the family are all distinct spheres which all have their own role to play. Just as we have different branches within government, so we have the different spheres within society as a whole, so that balance may be maintained. Advocates of unregulated capitalism, which would create an ostensible "free market", are not reckoning with the fact that human sinfulness can express itself in economic transactions just as easily as in excessive regulation. There is no such as thing as a free market, for several reasons. One of...

Btw, Twitter is pretty much my blog now. Check it - follow @evandonovan. My skepticism has ceased....