Rethinking Christmas
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 Posted in God, Church & Stuff, Society | No Comments »Redefining Christmas has been on my mind this year. As I was editing a like-minded blog entry for Church Marketing Sucks, I realized how insane it is that people go into debt for Christmas. How crazy it is that we're ...
The Wacky Jubilee
Monday, December 22nd, 2008 Posted in God, Church & Stuff, Society | 3 Comments »Last Sunday the sermon at church covered a little known bit of Jewish law called the Sabbath Year and the Year of Jubilee. I had heard about the latter in 1999 with Jubilee 2000 and the Drop the Debt Campaign ...
John Piper On Women & Over-Investment in Politics
Monday, November 3rd, 2008 Posted in God, Church & Stuff, Politics | 2 Comments »Came across a very interesting video from John Piper, pastor of Bethlehem Baptist in Minneapolis and head of Desiring God, a nonprofit religious organization that advocates the "supremacy of God." I've done some work for Desiring God and I always ...
Muslim Americans
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 Posted in God, Church & Stuff, War | 1 Comment »A couple weeks ago I wrote about how Barack Obama isn't a Muslim—but what if he was? Who cares? Sometimes it's nice to be backed up. In this case former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell has my back: "I'm also ...
Politics is Like Trying to Cure Cancer with Ointment
Friday, August 29th, 2008 Posted in God, Church & Stuff, Politics | No Comments »The last 24 hours have probably been some of the most historic 24 hours of politics in a long time. Barack Obama officially accepted the nomination of the Democratic Party with a stirring speech last night in Denver, making him ...
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 God, Church & Stuff, Internet | 4 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 God, Church & Stuff, World News | 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. ...
