I’ve been doing some Googling to try to find a church to visit when we go to Boulder this summer. I found an interesting article in the Denver Post about “The Un-Churches.” One of the churches profiled is The Crossing, whose pastor I used to work with at a church here in North […]

Elon University recently sent a group of students, faculty, and staff to Namibia to work on a project to combat HIV/AIDS in that country. Funding was provided by Project Pericles. Check out their video postcard from Namibia (Quicktime 6 required).

Check out this interview with James Caviezel, who plays Jesus in the movie. Amazing.
February 25 can’t get here soon enough.

Another gem from Thomas Friedman about the war in Iraq:
“All I have to do is see what happened to the Kurds the other day — this proud mountain people who have built a nice little democracy and free market in northern Iraq, only to have it suicide-bombed by Islamists — to be reminded that this […]

My new favorite number is “eleventeen.” I’ve always been partial to the number eleven in the past, which is partly a relic from my youth when my favorite baseball player was Barry Larkin and is partly from the symmetry and simplicity of the form of the number 11. But now 11 has been […]

Ecclesia in Houston and Solomon’s Porch in Minneapolis both call themselves “holistic missional Christian communities.” I’m sure other communities of believers do as well, but those two are the ones I’ve stumbled upon. The Ecclesia site has a great exposition of what they mean by the term “holistic missional Christian community”:
Holistic: we seek […]

One of the story threads on The West Wing last night was about Social Security, and it got me thinking. Social Security is terribly inefficient. I dump 15% of my salary into it (7.5% paid by me, 7.5% paid by my employer) and have no real expectations of any significant payback. On […]