A few weeks ago when I was in Atlanta for Catalyst I went to a blogger-ish meeting that took place after Catalyst had ended, called Off the Blogs (photos of that night). During one of the sessions, Carlos Whittaker from Ragamuffinsoul talked to the group about things going on in his life, and he mentioned [...]
I love the music that comes from the mid to late 1960’s to mid 1970’s in the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Eric Clapton, Janis Joplin, Pink Floyd and many more. It was at the very height of the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, and a time of great growth and pain in [...]
I will say right off the bat that this post will be totally uninteresting to some and all of my 10 readers may dislike it, but I feel like change is coming to my blog and I am writing this post to map it out for myself. There are a lot of random thoughts [...]
This was probably once of the nicest late December days that I can remember. It was over 70* with partly cloudy, blue sky and I ended up working outside all day. We ended up taking down our Christmas lights today and replacing them with our “everyday lights” which will remain up the rest of the [...]
Why do you have a blog? Does your blog serve any useful purpose? Some don’t, just thought I would ask. If it doesn’t, perhaps it should. If it doesn’t, and it shouldn’t, then why exactly does it exist in the first place?   Sometimes I go back and forth in my mind with my intended [...]
I came across an article today called Faith No More, by Relevant Magazine, which talks about the dying faith of the twentysomething’s or the college age crowd.
After reading the article I was amazed at how similar the discussion was to a book I just started reading called The Integrity of the Church, A Study of [...]
Since the name of this blog is Damascus, I had intended on doing several posts about the name, the city, and the people associated with Damascus, so, this will be the first Damascus related post. I will start with just a little bit of background information.
Damascus the City
Damascus (Dimashq) is considered the oldest [...]