Cheesehead has an insightful post about early believers and the Word of God. And it got me to thinking about our bibliocentric (book-centered) understanding of the Word of God. We say we base everything we do on the Word of God, but we limit ourselves to The Word of God as the text […]

Via Church Marketing Sucks:
When 10 people in matching blue T-shirts show up at a local shopping center, armed with brooms, towels and squeegees, and volunteer to wash windows and clean bathrooms, well, they’re bound to attract attention.
They’re part of the Kindness Team at the Vineyard Church of Richmond, Va. In addition to free cleaning at […]

Interesting article from Terry Mattingly about public prayers at a university campus event. Having attended many events at Elon where the chaplain or assitant chaplain or some other religious figure from the community offers an invocation, nothing in this article was surprising to me. The gist of the issue:
Then he received a letter […]

Washington has, for the first time, acknowledged to the United Nations that prisoners have been tortured at US detention centres in Guantanamo Bay, as well as Afghanistan and Iraq, a UN source said.
This is a bad, bad precedent. We’ve abandoned the moral high ground. We’ve acted just like them. So now we […]

Scary: China to invade Taiwan in two years
China is building its military forces faster than U.S. intelligence and military analysts expected, prompting fears that Beijing will attack Taiwan in the next two years, according to Pentagon officials.
U.S. defense and intelligence officials say all the signs point in one troubling direction: Beijing then will be forced […]

I remixed SoBap and thought that went pretty well. So now I’m going to remix some vitriol from an article called Emergent Error. The article is written by someone who is surely very devout and very religious. I’m sure he’s a brother in Christ, though one I disagree with pretty strongly. […]

Addictive: Whack the Penguin
My longest drive was 588.8. My last ten scores were 588.8, 407.9, 420.6, 413.7, 479.6, 209.8, 440.7, 441, 373.3, and 474.2. That’s a mean of 424.96 and a median of 430.65. Can you beat it?
(Link via CMar)