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Three »

Three years ago our world was rocked when we learned that our newborn son Caedon had Down Syndrome. Today he turns three and he keeps rocking my world.
Happy birthday, Caed. I love you.

Senate Bill 1810 Prenatally and Postnatally Diagnosed Conditions Awareness Act (for Down Syndrome and others) »

Senate Bill 1810 is a fascinating piece of legislation. How many other bills are co-sponsored by Ted Kennedy & Sam Brownback, pass unanimously in the Democratic House & Senate (by unanimous consent in the Senate & by voice vote in the House), and will certainly be signed into law by a Republican President.
The law’s purpose […]

The Faith of Barack Obama »

The Faith of Barack Obama is well worth reading. It’s largely objective and unbiased, though the author makes it clear that he has significant disagreement with Obama on many religious issues. Some of the more provocative passages:

“I believe that there are many paths to the same place and that is a belief that there is […]

Moderate? Vote McCain »

If you’re politically moderate, vote for McCain. Here’s why:

Obama was rated the most liberal senator in 2007 by National Journal. He was rated the 10th most liberal in 2006 and the 16th most liberal in 2007, so his voting record has grown more liberal over time.
Biden was rated the 3rd most liberal senator in the […]

Banning Books »

The Wasilla Public Library houses 52,275 volumes. In 2005, publishers in the United States released 172,000 new titles. Powell’s City of Books in Portland carries more than 1,000,000 titles.
The Wasilla library’s collection, like every library’s collection, is only a small sample of all books in print. Everyone understands this.
The library must choose which books to […]

President Palin? »

I’m a big fan of Governor Sarah Palin, but with only two years as Governor and previous experience only as the Mayor of a town of 7,000, I’m not so sure I’m a fan of one-heartbeat-from-the-Presidency Sarah Palin.
The fear is that, if elected, President McCain may die in office because of his relative old age […]

Internet Campus »

At Pine Ridge Church we’re working hard to officially launch our internet campus on September 7. Initially we’ll join a large number of churches whose internet campus is primarily a live broadcast of their physical campus services, but then we’ll start looking at moving toward the goal that only a few churches are really attempting […]


Brian Baute is a creative Internet/New Media leader in Burlington, NC. He leads the Web Technologies department at Elon University and creates graphics & videos for Pine Ridge Church. See further details on his resume [PDF].



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My top 5 strengths: futuristic, strategic, activator, input, competition