Usually I keep my blog posts between 250 and 400 words (about normal for blog posts). This will be a bit longer, but stick with me. I think it will be worth your while, but grab something to drink while you read this. I’ve been waiting to be able to write this for a long…
Comeback
This past week Ted Haggard made his public comeback after over 2 years of relative silence. I watched him on Oprah (I know, I know…believe me, I never watch Oprah and won’t start) and on Larry King Live. When I first heard about the HBO documentary about the past few years of his life and…
Fortuitous Bouncing
Today was one heck of a dreary day in Oregon. The high temperature was 35, the low was 29. It was pretty foggy the entire day. Maybe we’ll get to see the sun sometime soon. If you have a great blog post or piece of news that you want me to link to, let me…
Man of Depravity is Written By a Woman
I found a website this week called Gender Analyzer. The basic concept is that it analyzes whether a blog is written by a man or a woman. So I head over there and lo-and-behold it says that this blog is written by a woman. I’m ashamed of myself. It would be one thing if it…
Budgets in Crisis
Yesterday I read this by Pete at Without Wax: “What a sad thing it would be if during this economic crisis all the world saw was a bunch of churches worried about meeting their own budget and a bunch of well off Christians only being concerned about their own personal financial set backs.” Part of…
Friends
You might not know this but Facebook has a friend limit. You are only able to accumulate 5,000 friends on Facebook. Publically they say this is because they want people to be Facebook friends with people they are actually friends with. But the reality is that they just didn’t have the infrastructure to deal with…