I have been talking a lot about the new book unChristian, by David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons.  Today I found out that Kinnaman did an interview with Time magazine a short while ago on the basics of the church’s image problems with twentysomethings.  It’s a short article with a good summary of Kinnaman’s research and [...]

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Over the past month or two, we have been watching at our house the new Battlestar Galactica, which (thankfully) bears only a passing resemblance to the 1978 series (pictured at left, along with a “futuristic” computer). The new Battlestar began in 2003 and has developed simultaneously with the Iraq war, so it isn’t [...]

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Philosopher Nick Bostrom says it is possible that we are all part of a computer simulation. I don’t believe it. I’m pretty sure he doesn’t believe it. It’s his logic that fascinates me. From a NY Times article:
Dr. Bostrom assumes that technological advances could produce a computer with more processing [...]

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Every time Barry Bonds swings his bat, he has a chance of becoming history’s all-time home run king. So why doesn’t anybody care?
It’s not just the steroids.
Things were different on April 9, 1974, when Hank Aaron hit home run 715 to pass Babe Ruth. Everybody cared. I was nine years [...]

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Police in Springdale, Ohio, have a new and amazing piece of technology - a license plate scanner which mounts to a patrol car and can read up to 900 plates an hour at highway speeds. Springdale police have read 86,000 plates since they began using the scanner in June. The primary use is [...]

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If you know anything at all about Sinéad O’Connor, you probably remember her ripping up a photo of the pope on Saturday Night Live 15 years ago. That’s pretty much all I knew about her.
So it surprised me to see Christianity Today do an interview and feature article on her. It surprised me [...]

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A local church flies the American flag on a pole outside their church, with the Christian flag underneath. This is undoubtedly good flag-flying etiquette, because the American flag is always to be displayed in the dominant position. But what does it say about our theology?
A variation of the [...]

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Not since The Passion have I seen such an intense marketing campaign aimed at Christians as I’ve seen the past few weeks for Evan Almighty.
I first saw the trailer for Evan’s predecessor Bruce Almighty as I sat waiting for one of the Lord of the Rings movies. It struck me as blasphemous at the [...]

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What good are short-term missions trips? I found a fascinating article on that topic this week in Leadership Journal, an interview with church planter Oscar Muriu, a Kenyan pastor.
The summary of his missions trip wisdom is that we must go in as guests and learners rather than saviors and teachers. But you’ll get [...]

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One of the best friends this blog has is Kristen Laprise, and she recently got me listening to the BBC Documentary Archive.  I actually listened to 7 or 8 episodes today on my drive up to Ohio.  I highly recommend it as a way to broaden your worldview on a wide variety of topics.
Today I [...]

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