a different perspective from alan hartung on the emerging church, politics, faith, and life
I’m taking a couple of months off of acting to focus on writing and my web business. For one, my site has been in dire need of a redesign for a long time, but I tend to focus on the sites they pay me directly. I know I’ve lost a lot of business from my [...]
Who needs gas?: “adn.com ‘Kienan Corbus lives in Chickaloon and drives a big pickup with big tires. But he doesn’t have a big fuel bill. He recently drove 150 miles round-trip to Anchorage using a mere two gallons of diesel — pretty darn good for a Ford F-250 power stroke with oversized tires. How is [...]
Religious nuts ecstatic over Middle East turmoil: “Mark Frauenfelder: Harper’s has posted messages from the Rapture Ready/End Times chat bulletin board. These folks are as happy as can be that Israel and Hezbollah are fighting because that means they’re one step closer to the Rapture. Got that dancing feeling on the inside of me. * [...]
Bush’s threat to veto stem cell funding is morally bankrupt: “Mark Frauenfelder: Scott Rosenberg of Salon has an excellent blog entry explaining why Bush’s threat to veto federal funding of stem cell research is shamefully ridiculous. Here is why Bush’s position is a joke: Thousands and thousands of embryos are destroyed every year in fertility [...]
emerging church research (Via TallSkinnyKiwi.) Even with my lack of posting lately, I made the top 50 emerging church blogs list… so it’s not exactly an independent study, but hey, I’m on there! So now if I can just get my consistency going again, maybe I can get re-linked again from a prominent blogger near [...]
Update: Click for Weeds Season 2 on iTunes! Ranking #1 for a search can sure change your stats. Lately, I’m getting inundated with hits for the Showtime show Weeds and the season 2 premiere. This show has really struck a pop cultural nerve, and I have a few thoughts on why. The main character is [...]
Scot Mcknight is looking at Romans 7 right now. Scot consistantly puts out good stuff, and I’m very interested to see what light he can shed on that difficult passage. I’ve tended to interpret this passage as the inherent struggle against sin we all face, with the inner conflict intensified by our hunger for the [...]
Bob Hyatt found a great quote from Edward R. Murrow: “Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.” A good thing to keep in mind in this age when podcasting and blogs truly give us worldwide scope when [...]
MSN Debuts Original Interactive Baseball Reality Show They stole my idea! Okay, so it probably takes a lot longer to put that deal together then the time since the “My Loud Obnoxious GM” idea debuted on this blog, but still… Wouldn’t it have been so much better of a show at the Major League level?
Things are going nuts right now between computer problems, moving, Mexico (I’m going to be housesitting there for two months… getting ready to uproot and come back is driving me crazy), films getting shut down… aarrgghhh! I’m going batty. Please forgive me for not posting much. I just haven’t had many thoughts worth posting unless [...]