TallSkinnyKiwi rocks Church 2.0:

Anyway, the ideas of collaboration, participation, distributed power etc, are all very similar to what we are seeing in the newer crop of churches started by media savvy, web-native people and bloggers. That makes me want to suggest . . .
Church 2.0 . . . a missional ecclesiastic response to a culture […]

I emailed Target complaining about their decision last year to not allow the Salvation Army during the Christmas season. I’d include the message I wrote, but it was on an online form at Target.com so I don’t have a copy. It was short (2 or 3 sentences) and polite, asking them to reconsider […]

Xmas and Christmas
by CS Lewis

And beyond this there lies in the ocean, turned towards the west and the north, the island of Niatirb which Hecataeus indeed declares to be the same size and shape as Sicily, but it is larger, and though in calling it triangular a man would not miss the mark. It is […]

It’s the season of our nation’s annual spending orgy called Exmas (hat tip: C.S. Lewis), and the perfect gift for the person who has everything is the special prerelease XXXChurch.com Missionary Positions DVD.
“Missionary Positions,” the award-winning documentary about XXXchurch as recorded by filmmaker Bill Day for over 3 years will not officially be released until […]

David Boyd lays out the best way to reform government:
1. Term limits. 12 years. 2 Senate terms. 6 House terms.
2. A uniform geographical formula for drawing house districts or elect all representatives at-large. Safe districts have to go. They’re anathema to democracy.
Exactly. The Republican Revolution of 1994 was great in principle, but in practice […]

If people can devote entire blogs to the inanity of their cats I suppose I can devote one entry to the deforestation of my back yard. I’m home this afternoon watching a crew from Honest Tree Service remove eleven overgrown scrub pines from my back yard. This is the second time I’ve had […]

William F. Buckley via David Boyd:
The report tells, among many other accounts, of a woman in her 20s who was washing clothes in a river. A fellow washerwoman saw a small Bible fall out of her basket and reported her to the authorities. She was executed by firing squad.
That martyr got off lightly. Nine years […]