Yesterday we stopped in Chicago to catch a Cubbie game at Wrigley field and take in some of the sites around the city. I love coming to Chicago. From the beautiful waterfront, well laid out and clean city streets, vast amount of parks, and endless activities it’s always fun, especially in the fall months. The day before we had been in St. Louis where it was 101 when we stepped outside at 10am so the brisk daytime high of 73 was a nice change of pace. We settled in to our seats around 1:30pm high above third base taking in the view of the rooftop deck seating on all the apartments surrounding the ballpark and the lush ivy hugging the brick along the outfield wall. By the end of the 4th inning I was frustrated enough with the 12 guys seated in front of me that I needed to get… [Read More]
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Crushing love
September 4th, 2011 
Dana Fisher 
Posted in Radical Christianity, Social Justice 
Tags: clay, cross, heart, Jesus, kingdom, Lord, love, pray, praying 
No Comments »growing up christian (part dos)
August 5th, 2011 dave as a preface to the second part of my ‘growing up christian’ post i’d like to make it clear that i am in no way attempting to be negative or overly critical. i am simply interested in digging up my past in a way that will move me forward to being more Christ-like. if it ever comes of like i’m preaching, it’s because i’m pleading with myself to keep going. i got way off track in my first post and didn’t bother to edit it, so i will try to be more focused in this one. preface done. so much of what we learn as evangelicals is that there are a specific set of core beliefs that one must affirm in order to be considered “in the fold,” so to speak. this list includes the following doctrinal affirmations: God created the world in six days (literal or figurative), we are… [Read More]
Posted in American Christianity Tags: angel, bullhorn, Christ, Christian, cross, Dave Capozzi, death, disciples, eternal, faith, faithful, God, Jesus, Jesus Christ, life, love, religion, resurrection, scripture, sin, sinner, sins, struggle, turn or burn, war No Comments »
Doom! Doom and Gloom!
August 1st, 2011 Dana Fisher Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. ~Matthew 6:34 When I was 10 or 11 we watched the “end times” videos in school. Those ones you laugh at now, based in the 1960′s or 70′s with bell bottoms, bad acting, and even worse graphics and make up. But as a little kid I was terrified! I remember coming home one day and just telling my mother they flat out scared the hell out of me. A lot of my salvation at an early age was based on this fear of the end. If you don’t confess now and act perfectly, hell is where you are headed mister! Those videos literally scared me straight. Straight into church, straight away from everything else. I had no desire to end up in some 170 degree hell of America… [Read More]
growing up christian
July 18th, 2011 dave wow, it’s been a while. i miss the blogosphere community that once was, and hope that it hasn’t forgotten about me! lately i have been thinking a lot about my life and the events/systems of thinking that have shaped the way i interact with God, people and nature. this current stream of thoughts has led me to remember the stumbling blocks that once stood in the way of embracing the Father of my Rabbi. i remembered the first of many questions that would jump start my inevitable crisis of faith, and recalled my inability to embrace the teaching that Jesus lived and died to forgive me of my sins and that his death opened up the pathway to go to heaven. this came during a time that i remember hearing the notion that if i were the only person on earth, Jesus would still have died for my sins. i… [Read More]
Posted in American Christianity Tags: bible, Christ, Christian, Community, faith, God, grace, Jesus, kingdom, kingdom of God, pray, sermon on the mount, sin No Comments »
Under His wings
July 16th, 2011 Dana Fisher He shall cover you with His feathers, And under His wings you shall take refuge; ~ Psalm 91:4 Women have a great intuition on protecting, men not so much. So it’s no surprise I’ve struggled in this area, trying to understand the line between protection and free will. How far do we go with someone before we let them go to their own devises? Last week during Sunday service our pastor said something we struck me, “we are idol factories in our hearts”. I thought back to the factories I’ve seen, pumping out large quantities of what ever it is they were making. There seemed to be disregard for demand, they were simply making as much as they could because they had the capacity. That’s what hit me, as sinful people we just keep pumping out idol after idol because that’s all we know, constantly trying to fill that void… [Read More]
Posted in Radical Christianity Tags: Christ, Jesus, kingdom, love, Matthew, Psalm, psalm 91, relationship, sin, war No Comments »Love lacks a deadline
July 4th, 2011 Dana Fisher When I was a young teenager my uncle came out and told us he was gay. I remember some shock from family, but I don’t remember too much overall. There were no mass hysterics(at least not visibly amongst us kids) and he certainly wasn’t ostracized. In essence, nothing really changed inside the family dynamic. The foundation of love still existed. Years later at 19 years old I took a job as an intern at Bayer Diagnostics working with my dad. Not long before that my uncle had been diagnosed with lung cancer after smoking most of his life. He lived fairly close, and having worked there himself at one point, would come down often to visit former friends and co-workers. I spent quite a few lunch breaks walking to the local pizza shop with him and my dad, hanging out and just chatting. That summer means a lot to me. … [Read More]
What Jesus may have said
June 29th, 2011 Dana Fisher I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. – John 13:17 There are many things I will take away from my time at the Wild Goose Festival in North Carolina this past weekend of which I plan to write in depth on after a little(and much needed) digestion. One question raised in passing during one conversation was the wish that we had more, if not all, of what Jesus said. It is true that we have just a small portion of his 33 years of life wrapped up in the pages of our Bibles but I had never heard this sort of disappointment almost at the fact we did not have more. Mainly for my own benefit I wanted to hash that out in words. In order… [Read More]
the wrong enemy
May 2nd, 2011 dave did you hear??? osama bin laden is dead. the news broke around 10:40 pm last night and i couldn’t have been more shocked at the celebratory remarks being made by facebookers and tweeters alike. people were thrilled that “justice had finally been served” and that this man who had caused so much pain in the lives of american families had been caught and put to death. my humble opinion…we are celebrating the wrong victory. the real victory over evil was accomplished long ago by God himself in the person of jesus of nazareth. this same jesus that died for his enemies, battled the power that lies behind the evil that is manifested in this world on the cross. that power is the one we continue to do battle with today. it is the power of death. the only way to defeat this power of death is by embracing the power… [Read More]
who gets jesus?
April 30th, 2011 dave this year has been interesting to say the least. i have been going through a lot of change, personally and spiritually, and i am beginning to see how the struggles i have been through are teaching me what the grace of God is all about. these past 4 months have also been rife with contention in the evangelical world. rob bell has set off a firestorm among protestants throughout the country and it doesn’t seem that the hype will be dying down anytime soon. it has been this particular split in christian thought that has got me thinking more about who gets to claim jesus, and about who gets to absorb God’s grace. there have been many on the blogosphere and in national magazines who are eager to make judgments, claims, accusations and have come to conclusions about who can retain ownership of jesus (as if he is yet another… [Read More]
Superman a Christian?
April 28th, 2011 Dana Fisher When Jesus had called the Twelve together, he gave them power and authority to drive out all demons and to cure diseases, and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick. So they set out and went from village to village, proclaiming the good news and healing people everywhere. ~Luke 9:1-2, 6 I read a neat article today about the latest superman comic book. In short, superman goes to support protests in the Middle East. The U.S.A. is pissed that he did it, and Iran views his actions as that of the U.S.(and president) and an act of war. Realizing that he wants to go beyond helping one specific subset of people and that the only way to avoid the political red tape/mess he renounces his citizenship so he can become more global and less national. One of the interesting quotes from the… [Read More]
