Interesting post from Sandy Carmany:

The full board approved the committee’s request that PART conduct a Bus Efficiency Study to explore the financial implications of potentially merging Greensboro GTA, High Point Hi-Tran, Winston-Salem WSTA and PART into one region-wide bus system. There are possible operational savings as well as the ability to access additional state and […]

Brookwood initially took a pretty aggressive stance toward Christmas (strongly denouncing churches that were choosing to not have services Christmas morning), then softened its stance the past couple weeks (presumably after getting complaints about the initial aggression, as a week after the pastor apologized for coming out so strongly against those churches). The past […]

Merry Christmas.

You are the light of the world
You are the Way, the Truth, and the Life
You are the light of the world
Lead us out of darkness and into Your marvelous light…

Gene Eugene, “Marvelous Light”

A fascinating tour of Lakewood Church, former arena of the Houston Rockets and now home of perpetually folksy-and-smiling-and-positive Joel Osteen:

At this point I have to reiterate the hugeness of everything that I am talking about. Additionally, every time that I mention any type of plural noun, I am referring to a gigantic number of whatever […]

Technorati is phenomenal (Web 2.0 at its finest). I’ve created a watchlist to see what bloggers are saying about Elon (and subscribed to the RSS feed), and lately many high school bloggers have been posting about their college application results. Here are some highlights (warning: these are unaltered from the source; some language […]

Just scrolled through about 1600 comment spams to rescue several legitimate comments that got swept up in my overzealous Barney Fife-like overaggressive spam filtering. My apologies to CMar, David Boyd, Verna B (hi mom), Rebecca P, Alyssa, and myself (yeah, the spam filter was so aggressive that it marked my own comments as spam) […]

Great series of posts at House Church Chronicles: Programs vs. Prevenience (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4). In the final entry in the series, John drops this bit of briliance:

…there is a disciplined, determined conviction that everything (and I mean, precisely everything) we do is a response to God’s […]