Faraway, So Close

Update: Looks like the video was pulled. Just due to copyright issues, not anything political or anything to get you conspiracy theorists going.
It’s so bizarre to think that there are people like this, so disconnected from reality.
It’s not exclusive to the Republicans, Democrats have their crazies. Nor is it [...]

It’s always nice to see the church trying to connect to the youth and really speak their language:

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Lent starts today. I’ve decided to give up sugar and caffeine this year. The sugar is a hard one to ‘police’ as often foods have small amounts of sugar even though it’s not the main ingredient or as it usually the case, not my main reason for eating that food. So I’m [...]

Click here for the original article (watch out for a few swears in there) but here are my favs:
Exodus 2:11-12: One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. [...]

I came across these interviews with a couple of Mormon teens (first interview, second interview) via kottke.org. They are interesting for a couple of reasons: one, we’ve seen a lot more Mormon activity since moving to the other side of our city than where we lived before. I’m not sure if the Mormons [...]

David Plotz at slate.com has been blogging his reading of the Bible, which you can read here.
For example:
2:18-24: Before God creates Eve, He brings all the animals to Adam, so that Adam can give all of them their names. This episode captures something fundamental about the male brain: our obsessive categorizing behavior. I once spent [...]

I think I threw up a little in my mouth when I saw this. Godtube is a copy, almost line for line, of Youtube complete with a Askaninja.com clone (SoldierinGodsArmy), Mac vs PC clones (link) and Clay Aiken videos?!?
Yet another ’safe place’ that is a copy of something succesful, with all the bad stuff [...]

Passed along from a certain youth pastor who may or may not want his/her name associated with this.
Hell is populated mainly not by passionate rebels, but by nice, bland, indifferent, respectable people who simply never gave a damn.
Peter Kreeft

By the way, are the people a little dull this morning? No problem. Change [...]