I posted some screen captures from tonight’s NBC Nightly News story about Pine Ridge Church in a set on Flickr. I also posted some commentary about each picture and some guesses about what the producer was trying to accomplish with the segment, which I generally thought was a fair treatment of the issues (see […]

Saw the NBC Nightly News piece about Pine Ridge Church tonight (segment video: streaming, QuickTime download). Generally it was a fair portrayal, though the obvious story angle was about politics (with a strong side dish of sexual preference politics thrown in).
I think NBC is guilty of defining churches like Pine Ridge by how they […]

How weird is the spat between the cable companies (prominently Comcast and Time-Warner) and the NFL over whether the NFL Network should be carried on basic cable rather than on a specialty sports tier?  So weird that it has a university professor talking like a libertarian free-market champion.
Now that’s weird.
Elon professor Connie Book (who teaches […]

Looks like Pine Ridge is going to be on NBC Nightly News tonight.  Here’s the trailer, and it looks like the crux of the story will be largely about politics and specifically how younger Christians are less politically motivated than the stereotypical older Christian in the mold of Falwell, Robertson, Dobson, etc.

In my job at Elon it’s important that I both KNOW STUFF and DO STUFF. If I just do stuff then I’m probably doing the wrong stuff due to lack of knowledge. If I just know stuff then who cares, because the knowledge never does any good.
And the fight between Ross and Tony […]

Great post at 43Folders about buying really inexpensive prescription glasses online.  Optometrists have ridiculously high markups, so it’s a perfect market for online sales.  Check it out, including the recommendations for good sites to use.

Sitting in the Elon coffee shop today I overheard two female students talking politics.  One said, “I can’t believe my mom.  I asked her who she’s voting for and she said John McCain!  She’s just afraid to vote for a woman or a black man.”  She went on to talk about how this generation has […]