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Happy Slapping Porn
Before I actually get into my commentary, I should first give you a little background. Today, Drudge linked to an article in the Guardian about the new phenomenon of “happy slapping” over in the U.K.
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Email Now Available
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Avoiding the Argument Party
Christianity Today (“Take the best and leave the rest”, as my mother in law would say) has a number of newsletters available via email. One that I subscribe to is the Leadership Journal. Here is an excerpt from part of today’s newsletter entitled Avoiding the Argument Party by Brian D. McLaren.
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Construction Ahead
We’re in the process now of moving our hosting from our own server to an external hosting site. Hopefully, this should make things a lot quicker and more consistant. However, if you do see problems on the site, please let us know. Permalink Test
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Who Owns Your Culture?
In 1990, Paul Simon released “The Rhythm of the Saints“, which continued his foray into world music which he started with “Graceland”. The album was very successful, and being as Mr. Simon is a very nice guy, he decided to send a portion of the royalties to the government of Ghana, since one of the […]
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More Catholic Than Baptist
Some people had commented to me about the relatively high score that Roman Catholic had scored on my recent denomination survey I had taken. Should it be surprising that I relate more closely to the Roman Catholic church than I do to Non-Calvinist Baptists, Pentecostals, Charismatics, and Quakers? I don’t think so, and here is […]
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Fat People Unite!
“Being overweight is nowhere near as big a killer as the government thought, ranking No. 7 instead of No. 2 among the nation’s leading preventable causes of death, according to a startling new calculation from the CDC.” So we see in an AP article on the subject. Of course, our Federal Government, being the defender […]
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Abusive Churches – Two Articles
I was doing a search on confronting Christians who are involved with manipulation and stumbled upon this article this morning. An excerpt: First, abusive churches have a control-oriented style of leadership. Second, the leaders of such churches often use manipulation to gain complete submission from their members. Third, there is a rigid, legalistic lifestyle involving […]
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Fighting to the Death
One of the most difficult things that I have ever done in my life was to shoot an opossum. It was staggering around in our yard during the daytime, drooling. I only had a .22, and it took several shots to before the animal died. I remember shooting it once or twice, and it hissing […]
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Soda Tabs for Dialysis
My great-uncle Andy, before he died, went a couple times a week for kidney dialysis. I remember growing up, we’d all collect our soda tabs, because they could be used to buy time on the dialysis, and somehow alleviate the costs. A good friend of mine is in the hospital right now with shot kidneys, […]
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It’s Official… I’m Reformed
Found this on the Interweb. It’s a survey you can take to figure out where you stand in terms of Christian denominational preference. I’m not too surprised with my results. Presbyterian/Reformed (100%) Anglican/Episcopal/Church of England (73%) Eastern Orthodox (73%) Congregational/United Church of Christ (71%) Lutheran (70%) Baptist (Reformed/Particular/Calvinistic) (61%) Roman Catholic (59%) Church of Christ/Campbellite […]
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Washing Their Hands
Well, it’s done (again?). The Session has handed over their jurisdiction to the Presbytery. The gist of what they’re asking the Presbytery is contained the following paragraph: Therefore, we petition the Heritage Presbytery to establish a commission and to assume original jurisdiction, and to examine the issues involving Thomas Albrecht III and Sarah Albrecht in […]
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Ruling Elders Who Cannot Teach
I submit that the practice of ordaining people as “ruling” elders who are not able to teach is an evil curse on the Church.
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Romance up in Smoke
Sarah-and-Tom/sarahtom2 Last night, I learned that many lit candles and incense sticks in an enclosed area lead to nothing more than fits of coughing, stuffy noses and sore throats. I would add lots of laughs, but that doesn’t happen until the day after.
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Micah
micah/IMG_0469.jpgMicah had his two month check up on Friday. He’s up to 13.5 lbs. He’s been smiling a little more, and is doing a good job of holding up his head. Tom, can we keep him? Pleeeeease?