Category: Social Commentary

• your hand in mine

  

  It wasn’t my first time through a haunted house. It was Halloween weekend and some friends and I had decided to visit a local scare house, one that promised to scare our socks off, if we followed the course, of course. We walked past caged monsters and shrieking zombies, mummies with searching arms and mazes…

  bricejohnson

  June 24, 2014

  From the Theologian’s Chair, Poet’s Perspective, Social Commentary

  anxiety, Christianity, comfort, fear, God, Halloween, hands, haunted house, Jesus, peace, sherlock holmes

• a life worth living

  During my sophomore year at UT, a couple friends and I joined a community group at the church we went to. Unsure of what to expect and without a car, we accepted a ride from the leader of the group and met Ronnie Smith who would love us, challenge us, and help us grow in…

  bricejohnson

  December 9, 2013

  Social Commentary

  Austin, Benghazi, Jesus, John Piper, Jonathan Edwards, Libya, life, redemption, Ronnie Smith, sermon, sorrow

• miss america and the great kaleidoscope

  

  I was born in New York, a jewel of a million different glints of color. Growing up, it didn’t take me long to realize that I didn’t look a lot like my classmates, and English wasn’t the language my parents and grandparents spoke at home. However, many of the kids in my school looked different,…

  bricejohnson

  September 16, 2013

  Social Commentary

  America, beauty, Christianity, Culture, Faith, God, India, Jesus, Martin Luther King, Miss America, pageant, racism, Revelation, twitter

• hope and the death of death

  

  Nothing causes us to pause and consider our own mortality more than the death of someone we know. I wasn’t thinking about the brevity of life, the brevity of my life, a few days ago. And then I heard the news that a friend had passed away. All the concerns, worries, anxieties of life suddenly…

  bricejohnson

  June 5, 2013

  From the Theologian’s Chair, Social Commentary

  afterlife, Christianity, Death, Faith, Friendship, God, hope, Jesus, Patrick, resurrection

• oh my God

  

  Where were you? I was at work when I heard the heartbreaking story that has given us all heavy and somber hearts. On Friday, a man walked into an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut and opened fire, killing 20 students and 6 adults. In a culture and time where violence and tragedies of this sort…

  bricejohnson

  December 14, 2012

  From the Theologian’s Chair, Musical Musings, Social Commentary

  children, Connecticut, fear, gun, hope, Jesus, Newton, shooting, tragedy