At ESPN.com Pat Forde is playing the role of Chicken Little regarding high school basketball in Indiana (he makes many good arguments about the state of college basketball in Indiana, and I concede those points to him). It’s tough to just grab snippets of his hyperbolic rant, but I’ll try to pull out the […]

From today’s A Slice of Infinity from Ravi Zacharias (HT: Tony):
I remember well in the early days of my Christian faith talking to a Hindu. He was questioning the strident claims of the followers of Christ as being something supernatural. He absolutely insisted “conversion was nothing more than a decision to lead a more ethical […]

Former U.S. Secretary of State General Colin L. Powell, USA (Ret.) will be the featured speaker during Elon University’s Spring Convocation for Honors at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 4 in Koury Center. (E-net)
I’ve got my ticket for the convocation and, more importantly, the not-open-to-the-public Q&A session preceding it. Elon holds convocation once each semester […]

The Google Maps Census Mashup is an amazing tool. Enter an address and it gives pertinent information (population, income, age, etc.) from the 2000 census in a 1, 3, or 5 mile radius.
Absolutely brilliant and one of the most useful mashups I’ve seen yet. Especially great for demographic market studies.
One interesting tidbit found […]

Boyd features the unconventional academic success of George Mason, which set me off on a riff in his comments. I’ll repost here:
In related news, ABSS Super Jim Merrill is leaving for Virginia Beach and the Times-News coverage is dominated by the change in standardized test scores during his tenure here. Perfect evidence that Merrill […]

There’s nothing like class basketball in Indiana. The old David-beats-Goliath system generated some great mythology and a great movie (Hoosiers). And tons of heartbreak. Despair. Hopelessness. My high school alma mater - Hauser High School in Hope, Indiana - played more than 45 years in the Columbus Sectional with some […]

Neil Cole, Organic Church (via HouseChurchBlog):
When you imagine the amount of resources, energy and time invested in a service held only one day a week, it is remarkable. With all the importance placed on this event, you would expect there to be a lot of scriptural directives to make sure people get it right. But […]