I’m a geek in a lot of ways. LOTS of ways. But in no area am I a bigger geek than in riddles. I’m a Riddle Geek in a major way. So I got excited when I saw this today:
There are three gentlemen in a meeting: Mr. Yellow, Mr. Green, and […]

Gretchen just called so Kierstin could tell me that she went “poopoo in the potty” for the first time. Today is momentous indeed. Cue the Hallelujah Chorus and the ticker tape. Defecation has never been so exciting, unless you’re a sloth. Sloths can go a week or more between poo.
And just […]

Another huge strike against Bush? His supporting cast. Powell and Condi Rice are strong but seem to be marginalized within the administration. Word is that Powell won’t come back as Secretary of State if Bush is re-elected, and who knows whether that’s true or not. But the fact that the story […]

The election is seven days away, and I’m more undecided than ever. My Bush/Kerry meter has wavered between 80/20 and 60/40 for the last few months, but the closer I come to stepping into the voting booth the harder I think it will be for me to cast a vote for Bush. Madeleine […]

Christianity Today publishes its second piece on the emerging church in as many days:
“Rather than measuring the church by its attendance, we will measure it by its deployment,” McLaren said. “One of the greatest enemies of evangelism is the church as fortress or social club; it sucks Christians out of their neighborhoods, clubs, workplaces, schools, […]

Thomas Friedman is back just in time for the election. His piece from 10/21 resonates with me deeply about this election:
In British politics there used to be a standard test for candidates for prime minister: Would you want to go on a tiger hunt with this person? That is, would this candidate kill the […]

Tony Jones reviews Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America:
First off, they claim that while the U.S. is not necessarily “racist,” it is unquestionably “racialized”: “characterized by by low intermarriage rates, de facto segregation, socioeconomic inequality, and personal identities and social networks that are racially distinctive”(154). That Black Americans are […]