Church Marketing Sucks: The Case of the Missing Church Members
Remember Encyclopedia Brown? He was cool. Solving all those complicated cases with quick thinking. Maybe the Southern Baptist Convention should call Encyclopedia. You see, they’re missing 10 million members.
Of the SBC’s 16,287,494 members, only 6,024,289 show up on the average Sunday for their church’s primary service. […]

Great article from Christianity Today. The whole article is well worth reading. Here’s the intro:
George W. Bush is not Lord. The Declaration of Independence is not an infallible guide to Christian faith and practice. Nor is the U.S. Constitution, nor the U.N. Universal Declaration on Human Rights. “Original intent” of America’s founders is […]

A great bit of humility from Google Sightseeing:
Here is a great shot of Miyakejima Satsuma-Iwojima Island off the coast of Japan. It is volcanic in origin and the big volcano is Mount Oyama. This has erupted several times in recent history. A lava flow in 1940 killed 11 people, and other eruptions occurred in 1962 […]

From Slashdot, re: the new Star Wars movies:
No the problem is money. Lucas has way too much of it. Especially for the first film [New Hope] there was a severe budget crunch. They were limited in both money and time. I think this forces a film team to make decisions that in the long run […]

The two things that have been most transformative for me in my looking at Christianity in a new way are Andrew Jones’ TallSkinnyKiwi blog and the book The Shaping of Things to Come by Mike Frost and Alan Hirsch. I owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to Jones, Frost, and Hirsch, who have collectively […]

My ecological footprint is 12 acres. The average US ecological footprint is 24 acres. If everyone in the world lived like me, we’d need 2.8 Earths.
Source: myfootprint.org
Hat Tip: Jordon Cooper

Got an email from Sojourners this morning about CAFTA, the Central American Free Trade Agreement. The email linked to SoJo’s stance on CAFTA:
Why We Oppose CAFTA
CAFTA is based on the seriously flawed NAFTA, and it extends and amplifies the harmful aspects of NAFTA in the following ways:
Threat to workers in the U.S. and in […]