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2016-03-19 18:53
OK, some may know that I declared jihad against church marquees several years ago. I think they should all be dynamited, chopped down, run over, or otherwise destroyed. Even with that philos… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Instead of calling them people, follow CNN's lead from this headline about a fuel line explosion that may have killed as many as a thousand people. Hundreds of fuel scavengers die in blastNo… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Once there was a boy. Since the day he was born he had treasured a 1 x 1 square of blue silk cloth he called his silky. He loved his silky. It traveled with him everywhere he went. There was… Read More
2006-12-22 05:52
In 1984 Britain's biggest names in music came together as "Band Aid" (I'm sure it seemed like a good idea at the time) to perform the song "Do They Know It's Christmas Time?". The song was i… Read More
2006-12-20 19:04
This is a stand up bit about how not fun it is to play Pachabel's Canon in D on the cello that moves into a rant about how all music contains the same chords. It starts slow if you aren't a… Read More
2006-10-29 17:35
I guess I can't speak for everyone in Oklahoma. In fact I probably speak for a pretty small number. In any case, I would like to apologize to the nation and probably the world for our senato… Read More
2006-09-02 18:01
In honor of (finally) watching High Fidelity last night...Top Five Movies with John Cusack (no particular order)1. Better Off Dead - "Gee, I'm real sorry your mom blew up, Ricky."2. Identity… Read More
2006-08-21 15:38
From CNN.com Sunday school teacher dumped for being femaleIf this pastor wants to interpret the Bible like this, whatever. But could he at least have the decency to tell the woman face to fa… Read More
2006-08-08 03:55
The day started in Beijing, we flew to Nanchang (after doing our best OJ impression through the Beijing Airport - running, not killing people), made our way to our hotel and within a couple… Read More
2006-06-09 21:51
Tomorrow morning we load up the family truckster and head west for Colorado. Should be an entertaining 12 hours in the car. Just a few things I can promise youwon't hear me say. . ."Eat road… Read More
2006-06-09 21:32
As a fan of both U2 and Samuel L. Jackson, I had to post this. It's a pretty decent impression of Bono singing "Someone Tell Sam Jackson He's My Bro". Great stuff. btw - if you don't care fo… Read More
2006-06-09 21:26
I tried to post this last night, but blogger was busy sucking so....Unless you have been in a cave the last couple of days, you know that the US dropped two 500lb bombs on a house where Abu… Read More
2006-06-07 04:09
Fourteen years ago K and I said "I do" and started this wild ride of marriage. Since this date last year we have been around the world and back, we've become parents (again), my life has cha… Read More
2006-06-03 16:20
article from new york magazine about the "killing off" of the generation gap or how 30/40-somethings are living and acting like 20-somethings.then of course al mohler weighs in and calls us… Read More
2006-06-03 15:58
While stolling through the blogiverse this morning I came across this epic poem written by the actor who plays President Logan on 24. It is season 5 in iambic pentameter. Spoilers galore - s… Read More
2006-06-02 04:10
In reading through Bonhoeffer's The Cost of Discipleship, I encountered a passage that deals with the necessity of suffering for the disciple who wants to identify with Jesus. Bonhoeffer say… Read More
2006-05-25 21:37
As I was driving through Edmond today and saw no less than 5 church marquees announcing some "Code" related gathering, I had to wonder. . . What would the world be like if the Church had tak… Read More
2006-05-15 04:50
This is a great interview with one of my favorite authors. Curteosy of PBS Religion and Ethics Newsweekly.Watch the video hereor read the interview here.One favorite quoteABERNETHY: (the int… Read More
2006-05-15 04:44
King of the Hill goes church shopping.This is why we're in trouble if we ever move.watch here Read More
2006-05-06 13:04
Great column by Rick Reilly in last week's Sports Illustrated Read More
2006-05-06 04:05
I think I have told the story here about the little girl from the orphanage in Fenyi who was coming to America to have surgery to correct a severe facial abnormality. Gong Lu has been for fo… Read More
2006-04-30 18:12
From Jeffery Sachs in the NY TimesAMERICANS have a perfect retort to Osama Bin Laden's call for expanding the terrorism war to Sudan. We should respond by showing our abiding concern for the… Read More
2006-04-28 15:15
Since the day I stood in the orphanage in Fenyi and felt overwhelmed with the sense of the presence of Jesus in such a difficult place, I have felt this growing awareness of the plight of ch… Read More
2006-04-26 05:29
the cure for information overload Read More
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