One of my favorite memories from college is my trip to Honduras in 1994 to do some mission work. It was the first time I’d flown. We flew from Indianapolis to Houston, then to Tegucigalpa (Honduras’ capital city), then to San Pedro Sula, where we worked in an outlying village with Lifeline Christian […]

Alan Hartung blew me away with this about the abuste of freedom within the emerging church, what causes it, and what to do about it:
Once I realized it wasn’t all about the rules, I pushed certain activities to the extreme. Once the structure of evangelicalism was removed, it opened up the door to… well just […]

Steve at Harbinger quotes an interesting take on capitalism and the church from The Other Journal:
This is to say, even if capitalism elevated the poor, it would still be wrong on account of the way it corrupts human relations, rendering them antagonistic, competitive. Capitalism has so construed the market that humans interact agonistically, competitively. All […]

From the New York Post:
A grief-stricken U.S. soldier cradles a dying child after a terror blast in Mosul, where coldblooded rebels have set off five bombs in three days.
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Warning! Star Wars Episode III Spoilers! Don’t Read this if you don’t want to see spoilers!
Wikipedia has a thorough summary of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, and with plenty of spoilers. Don’t read it (or this post) if you don’t want spoilers.
The part that really grabbed me is this:
Anakin […]