ramblings and updates

Moving Blog

Wed, 9 Apr 2008 15:47:31 -0700

I’m moving my blog back to: http://alexf.blogspot.com for the time being. As much as I like the graphical appeal of iWeb, it is extremely inconvenient as a blogging software, because it takes so much

Heroes (pt. 1)

Tue, 8 Apr 2008 01:55:47 -0700

I’ve recently been reading Jesus In Beijing by David Aikman as part of my research for my paper on the growth of Christianity in China. I’d highly recommend the book to anybody at all interested in Ch

Your Holocaust

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:08:15 -0700

(picture above is a child’s depiction of life in Darfur - see Waging Peace Canada) Today was a pretty emotional day in lecture for my History of Christianity II course. I really appreciate the fact t

Global Alarming...

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:36:35 -0700

I've been reading up consistently on the debate over climate change over the past couple years and these new findings seem to put the ball back in the critics camp as they are finding more "Inconvenie

Derek Sather

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:59:41 -0700

What can somebody say in the face of sudden tragedy? It’s like having the feeling that everything should be said, but yet nothing is sufficient. Try all you want, you can’t summate the feeling of shoc

I’m 1337

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:33:09 -0700

I’ve thought about this many times before but still never quite know how to deal with it. I spent the majority of my life in the sweltering hot south of the United States, soaking up rays or just soa

Charlés in Bruxelles

Tue, 1 May 2007 23:43:35 -0700

Well, on the spur of the moment, I purchased some tickets from London to Brussels and went to visit my good friend Charles Gravely in Liege, Belgium... for one day. Pretty hilarious or surreal I guess

More Time in Oxford and More Mayhew Time

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:42:39 -0700

As if I could not get enough of Oxford, which I couldn’t, I went back for a second time around. This time alone and with time to be a tourist. So, I packed up my things and said goodbye to Tring for g

Soul Survivor

Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:41:52 -0700

Well, today was the Lord’s Day, therefore, Wil and I made our way to the church a couple times today. First we went to Wil’s local church in Tring: High Street Baptist Church. The pastor there was a s