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Archive for December, 2004

Merry Christmas!

Saturday, December 25th, 2004

Assuming all goes as planned, today I’ll be hanging out with my friend Ryan (he moved here from Indiana as well) and watching the Chiefs kick the crap out of the Raiders!!! I want to wish you all a very merry Christmas. For those of you with huge family gatherings, may they be marked by [...]

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The Many Faces of the Emerging Church

Friday, December 24th, 2004

Recently I was asked whether I considered THEOOZE a part of the established church or a part of the emerging church. Truth is, I don’t think THEOOZE is either/or. THEOOZE is a community where all different types of Christ-followers can come and engage the conversation about life in a world that’s changing significantly. That means [...]

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Bowling for Columbine – Finally watched it

Friday, December 24th, 2004

As liberal as I am (or at least accused of), I still am not a big fan of Michael Moore. I think he crosses the line and hurts his cause too often. In general, the people who love his films are people already in agreement with him. The films tend to have such an incredible [...]

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RSS feeds for newly released movies and more

Thursday, December 23rd, 2004

Movies.com is offering RSS feeds for movies coming out in theaters, upcoming movies, industry news, newly released DVD’s, box office numbers, and more! I subscribed to five of their feeds.

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I’ve read a little bit more in Mulholland’s, Shaped by the Word. I’ve already written about formational reading versus informational reading, so I’ll move on from that. The next concept I’m trying to wrap my head around is that of functional versus relational. And even though I’m using the word “versus,” Mulholland’s quick to point [...]

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RSS Feeds

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2004

Here is the RSS 2.0 feed: http://alanhartung.com/blog/xmlsrv/rss2.php?blog=2 Others RSS versions and an Atom feed are available at the bottom of the right column. Also, you can now subscribe to comment feeds, and if you don’t know what RSS is, there’s a link for that too!

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Comment spam – I’m switching to b2evolution

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2004

This post first appeared on the old blog. I am duplicating it here. Comment spam has pushed me over the edge Okay, I’m done with Nucleus as my blogging software. I like most of it. It is very easy to use, simple to tweak the design (if I ever would have taken the time to [...]

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USATODAY.com – Mexican city bans indoor nudity

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2004

USATODAY.com – Mexican city bans indoor nudity This one just kills me. I’m sorry folks, but this is definitely one case where I’d break the law. And do they expect you to wear swimming trunks in the shower?

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Please change this feed to: http://alanhartung.com/blog/xmlsrv/rss2.php?blog=2 in your news readers. That feed is an RSS 2.0 feed, and if you need earlier versions of RSS, there are other links on the new blog page, and there’s also an Atom feed. This is my last post on this blog software. All new posts will come from [...]

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Wired News: Stem-Cell Method May Cheat Death

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2004

Wired News: Stem-Cell Method May Cheat Death The pessimistic side of me believes the right-wing would still find something to complain about if this ever became a reality. Fortunately, I am more of an optimist, and the prospect of stem cell research without killing the embryo excites me! It would be great to have funding [...]

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