Staying busy again this week, little time to post. This may be it for the week. However, you can now see some of what I’m reading when I have a little time here and there in my “Recent Reads” section in the sidebar. Here’s a few other things…

Faith & politics
In the first [...]

read full post

I’ve been very busy this week, having already worked a few very long days, so I haven’t had a lot time to be online and/or posting. Since I have a few minutes of breathing room now, I thought I’d pass on a few articles and what I’m considering from eMusic when my downloads refresh [...]

read full post

I received my newest issue of Relevant magazine last week, and there were several articles I wanted to post about. Here’s a couple to start with.
Jesusland
First is an interview with Ben Folds, whose song “Jesusland” gets a fair amount of attention in the article. (Lyrics to “Jesusland” can be found here, song can [...]

read full post

I wrote about hard rock/heavy metal a few days ago, and the following night I see none other than Twisted Sister on Leno. Now, that may be disturbing to some, but what’s disturbing to me is what they were singing.
O Come All Ye Faithful.
Did you say…
Yes, I did.
Even more disturbing is that there’s more. [...]

read full post

Christmas
No doubt we’ll hear more and more about the “war on Christmas” as the day approaches. I responded to this last year, and here’s a post by Diana Butler Bass over at God’s Politics blog about this year’s war on Christmas, although it’s from a different angle than usual.
Speaking of Christmas, Shaun Groves answers [...]

read full post

I found some parodies of the Mac vs PC commercials via Lee Hodges blog. I think they are pretty clever and make a good point. As Christians, who are we? For what are we known? Are we Christians in name only? I posted several posts last year around this time [...]

read full post

Christian nation?
I’ve encountered a number of blogs this week that have been discussing the idea of the U.S. as a Christian nation (or not.) Usually, the discussion originated because of a New York Times article from earlier this week about the Woodland Hills church in St. Paul, Minnesota and it’s pastor, [...]

read full post

I’m always interested in seeing what outsiders think of Christians. I touched on this a little in some posts last year (here and here). I believe it is beneficial to hear what others - particularly those who know the Bible, or at least the teachings of Jesus - have to say about how [...]

read full post

I watched ABC’s World News Tonight Sunday evening and saw a couple of stories worth mentioning.
Jesus Loves Porn Stars
First was the story of Craig Gross and XXXChurch.com. Gross is a pastor who’s ministry is directed to those addicted to pornography. They travel to porn conventions, set up their own [...]

read full post

Our teaching pastors began a series at our church last week called “Beginnings“, in which they’re teaching through the opening chapters of Genesis. The message yesterday was delivered by Tim Lundy on the beginnings of man, woman and marriage.
Today, as I scanned through some news sites, I found this article regarding President Bush’s remarks in [...]

read full post