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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I thought I’d get back to this topic sooner. Part 1 was more than two weeks ago.
Whether the issue is racism, poverty, missions or even salvation, we in the evangelical churches in America have a weakness that keeps us from seeing the whole picture. The weakness is our ingrained belief in the centrality [...]

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Move over, Shane Claiborne. Philip Yancey is back with a new book (Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?) which is ever so quoteable, even though I’m less than thirty pages in. It was just two weeks ago that I declared Claiborne’s book The Irresistable Revolution the most quotable of all books. [...]

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Here’s my summary of a little parable I just read in the book Divided by Faith, by Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith.
Imagine that two friends, Maridel and Parker, decide to lose weight by checking in a six-week camp-style program (O.K., a “fat farm”). Upon arrival, they are separated and sent to different compounds.
In [...]

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TechCrunch featured a new site last week called Do The Right Thing, where users praise or pummel companies for their social concern. The idea is to call companies to higher standards by using the web for public censure or praise. Wal-Mart bashing is a favorite hobby on the site, as expected. Products [...]

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I still maintain my innocence regarding interest in O. J. Simpson’s salacious book deal, but if I were to write about it, I would want my post to resemble this Newsweek article based on an exclusive look at the chapter from Simpson’s book about the night of the murders.  You shouldn’t read the Newsweek article, [...]

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When I was a kid, I was a committed Christian and I was really into science fiction. It didn’t take me long to see the tension between the two. My favorite science fiction writers (especially Isaac Asimov) were atheists. Their vision of inter-galactic travel and settlement of the universe had no place for [...]

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Last night, Saddam Hussein was executed in Iraq. No matter how you feel about capital punishment or the war in Iraq, it’s pretty obvious that he deserved it, and not just in a “wages of sin is death” kind of way. MSNBC has posted a video which shows Saddam, on the very first [...]

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I first became aware of the (Red) campaign on Thanksgiving night when I saw a long commercial about it (narrated by Bono). Some of my younger friends tell me that (Red) has been operating in Europe for some time, but it seems the U. S. push is just beginning.
Here’s how it works: Companies [...]

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What’s worse than O. J. Simpson’s now-canceled TV interview and book deal? Actually these would be hard to beat. The idea was for an interview and book, both titled If I Did It, in which O. J. would describe how he WOULD have killed Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman in 1994 - IF [...]

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