The other night while sleeping my wife awoke and said to me “I think I pee’d my pants”. I would have been worried if she wasn’t 9 months pregnant. We resolved the matter at 1:22am and concluded her water had broke. Excitement filled the air even more 16 hours later when she delivered a 20.5″ 7.13 lb boy. Click below for his first mugshot. Read the rest of this entry »

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You want a San Pelligrino? These orange ones are pretty good… or the lemon for that matter. I said to a buddy of mine as we stepped inside a local southside coffee shop, “I know you don’t like coffee but since I am gonna drink something, you need to have something too.” No one likes to drink by themselves, non-alcoholic or not. What my buddy said after this statement is something that most of us would drive right by. We get so close to someone but (then) somehow our brain forgets about them and shifts back to me, myself and I.
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Uhhh ohhhh! Hold on to your latte and Iphone because your boy is going off! Just get ready to RT or comment. The fact that I put the word church and machine in the same sentence should give you a pretty good idea where this brain explosion is heading –  no pun intended. What has the church created, and is it congruent to the Bible?

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Last night, seated in the back of a black SUV and driving home from the 2010 Chicago Auto Show, I looked in amazement at a message posted on Facebook. It seems these days I resort to news via social media than anywhere else. Either way, I was a bit disappointed with my hacked iPhone and its lethargic 2g internet speeds.  I was squeezing, shaking and speaking poetic words to my phone in an attempt to load an La Times blog.  I noticed after searching Safari the story had been updated within the hour, THIS was a hot one.  Plus I knew there had to be some validity to it if the Los Angeles Times had scooped the story up.  I had a feeling this sort of news was going to happen but for some reason I didn’t want to admit I first heard it on Facebook.

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I now understand a very simple concept – that is simple, but brings life an insane amount of color. When someone says they Hate Church, is this another method of dodging?  We laugh at guys like Aziz Ansari and cry at movies like Dear John. We dance to beats made by Kanye, in clothes crafted by colorful people like Alexander Wang. Our daily food life consists of recipes bombarded upon us by food creatures like Giada or rebels such as Bourdain. Why do they do what they do, and why are we stuck watching?  Read the rest of this entry »

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I decided to focus a month toward re-learning Bible history. Mostly, because the reason why people Hate Church is because they work on their Jersey Shore Fist Pump more than reading about how God invented the fist smash (see Exodus 7:4).  Read the rest of this entry »

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photo by Art from DailySouthtown

Our local press has moved forward and our online push is gaining momentum. Take a minute to see what one man in the middle of America is doing in a town of 40,000 people. “Live Big & Dream Bigger”

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GesuCristo//Haiti 2010

I Hate Church says “thank you” to the people (see end of post) who make this Haiti campaign move. Your support of GesuCristo and our tshirt initiative puts life in a new light, with a whole new cast and crew. It is much more exciting – like drinking Coca Cola for the first time – finding those fizzy bubbles somehow go through your nose and into your brain.  One time in a dark galaxy far, far away, someone approached me and asked me the all encompassing “life” question. He said, “if you could do anything in the world and not be paid, what would it be?” Read the rest of this entry »

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