Isaac Hayes, the soul-singer best known for the theme song to Shaft recently quit the TV show South Park due to its intolerance to religion. Hayes, who voices a character on the animated show, resents a recent satire (attack?) that South Park did against Scientology. South Park co-creator Matt Stone said that Hayes [...]

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“Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.“
William R. Inge
Out of Ur is carrying on a discussion right now about how megachurches are starting to spawn house churches. Megachurches usually succeed after all by getting people into small groups, and it appears that some believers like [...]

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Sarah Pulliam has a good article at ChristianityToday.com about Christians and happiness. The article says that evangelical Christians who attend church regularly say they are happier than the general population, and then examines why this might be. Is it our teachings (grace, forgiveness, security) our support system, our focusing disciplines (prayer, Bible study)? [...]

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Kirby Puckett’s death at age 45 has got me to thinking about Sting’s beautiful song How Fragile We Are…
If blood will flow when flesh and steel are one
Drying in the colour of the evening sun
Tomorrow’s rain will wash the stains away
But something in our minds will always stay
Perhaps this final act was meant
To clinch a [...]

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Need a little nagging to do the things you ought? Hassle Me is here to help. Tell this site that you want to eat more fruit, exercise, call your mom or change your oil more often, and Hassle Me will nag you into good habits. Or get married.

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I’ve promoted before the excellent blog from Leadership magazine, Out of Ur. An excellent article there called Exit Stage Left: Why the Spiritually Mature are Leaving the Church caught my eye. At first I thought it would criticize the seeker sensitivity of the boomer mega churches, but it doesn’t. Instead it [...]

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