a different perspective from alan hartung on the emerging church, politics, faith, and life
I confess: I’ve been on a movie binge the last week. I found a great way to watch a lot of movies for very little money… Hollywood Video’s MVP subscription. The first month (I don’t know if this is per store or a chain thing) is 9.99 then 14.99 each month thereafter. You can have [...]
Your Seduction Style: Ideal Lover You seduce people by tapping into their dreams and desires. And because of this sensitivity, you can be the ideal lover for anyone you seek. You are a shapeshifter – bringing romance, adventure, spirituality to relationships. It all depends on who your with, and what their vision of a perfect [...]
Christians kill Muslims following warning by Nigerian Archbishop: “At least 20 people were killed in revenge attacks on Muslims in Nigeria yesterday as religious riots intensified a day after the country’s leading Anglican archbishop warned Muslims that they did not have a ‘monopoly on violence’.” (Via Daily News from Ekklesia.) My first reaction to this [...]
Let’s move to a more recent example of what I can only call institutionalised racism in American reporting of Iraq. I have to thank reader Andrew Gorman for this gem, a January Associated Press report about the killing of an Iraqi prisoner under interrogation by US Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshofer Jnr. Mr Welshofer, it [...]
People who support gun rights at all cost and don’t give a rip about warrantless wiretapping. Churches that spend over 80% of their budget on property and salaries. Singly packaged burritos which list their calories as 2 servings. Really, if you have one burrito, why would that be two servings? People who drive slower in [...]
Flash Video about Forwards Absolutely hlarious, and a point that needs to be made to some people who can’t resist (or who really fear bad luck) forwarding stupid crap.
The abortion “debate”: “I have been discussing the abortion question with some friends lately and while I am pro-life, I find it hard to find non-partisan information about abortions in Canada and the United States, especially statistically.’ While I was looking at both sides, the following questions hit me. The statistics about back alley abortions [...]
Emerging Peter: Slavery 1: Before anything else, let’s admit this up front: it is not easy for us to look at 1 Peter 2:18-25 (on slaves submitting to masters, as Jesus submitted to the Father) without fire in our eyes, shame in our history, and nuance all over everything we say. Why? Because of what [...]
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I’m working on a documentary right now, and I don’t want to give too much of the details out in public. We have access to some equipment through my alma mater, but we can’t have as much use as we need to get the footage necessary to complete this thing. So… here goes. We either [...]