Barack Obama vs. James Dobson
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 Posted in God, Church & Stuff, Politics | 1 Comment »During the Tuesday, June 24, 2008 broadcast of Focus on the Family, James Dobson talks about a speech presidential candidate Barack Obama gave about religion in June 2006 (CNN story). I’ve never been a fan of Dobson (being blacklisted doesn’t ...
Day of Prayer and Fasting for the Global Food Crisis
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 Posted in God, Church & Stuff, Society | No Comments »Today Compassion International is holding a Day of Prayer and Fasting to combat the global food crisis. If you want to help, aside from prayer and fasting, you can donate to their Global Food Crisis Fund. It's hard for me to ...
Rapture Notification System
Thursday, June 5th, 2008 Posted in Behold, the Internet, God, Church & Stuff | 2 Comments »I saw this mentioned earlier this week but didn't pay any attention to it until I saw the url: http://www.youvebeenleftbehind.com. For $40 per year you can join a rapture notification system that will notify your heathen friends and family that Jesus ...
Death in Many Forms: Cyclones and Cancer
Friday, May 9th, 2008 Posted in 6 O'clock News, God, Church & Stuff | No Comments »Last week Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar (aka Burma) and officially killed at least 22,980 people with another 42,000 missing, 1 million homeless and unofficial estimates expect the death toll to top 100,000. Those kind of numbers, like the 2004 Southeast ...
Truthiness of E-mail Forwards; Or, Pray to My God or I’ll Heckle You
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 Posted in God, Church & Stuff, Politics | 4 Comments »Today I received another one of the questionable forwards. The story in a nutshell is that a court ruling had prohibited prayer at a graduation ceremony. When one of the speakers approached the podium, the entire graduating class simultaneously sneezed. ...
There’s More to Church Than Teachin’ & Singin’
Monday, April 14th, 2008 Posted in God, Church & Stuff | 1 Comment »Last week on Church Marketing Sucks we interviewed Mark Van Steenwyk of Jesus Manifesto. He talked a lot about New Monasticism and justice, but the money quote for me is when he talked about how churches have turned Christianity into ...
Worship American Idol
Thursday, April 10th, 2008 Posted in God, Church & Stuff | 4 Comments »American Idol had it's big 'give back' special last night (or so I'm told—I don't watch it) and it ended with a group sing of "Shout to the Lord," a well known worship song written by Darlene Zschech. What? Christian ...
Undercover at Teens Encountering Christ (TEC)
Friday, April 4th, 2008 Posted in God, Church & Stuff | No Comments »The City Pages recently went undercover to expose the secret of Teens Encountering Christ, also known as TEC. If you've never heard of it before, that probably doesn't sound like big news. But it is. TEC is a Catholic retreat ...
Mugged Man: “You Might As Well take My Coat”
Saturday, March 29th, 2008 Posted in God, Church & Stuff, Society | No Comments »A teenager steals a man's wallet by knife-point in the subway. The man offers the thief his jacket as well. Next thing you know the victim is taking the mugger out to eat and eventually gets his wallet back. Then ...
Teaching Kids About God
Thursday, February 28th, 2008 Posted in Children, God, Church & Stuff | 1 Comment »Last week at church we sat around with some other parents and talked about spiritual formation in our children. Basically how we're teaching them about God. I felt kind of dumb because I didn't think we were doing much. But ...
