About a year and a half ago, I wrote about the “West Memphis Three”. The following story was produced by the local ABC affiliate (KATV), and was shown in two parts over the last two evenings on their ten o’clock news broadcast.
Fifteen years later, there still is no credible evidence that points [...]

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From Jon Foreman, a new song from his Summer EP, based on a passage from Amos 5:

Instead Of A Show
I hate all your show and pretense
the hypocrisy of your praise
the hypocrisy of your festivals
I hate all your show
Away with your noisy worship
Away with your noisy hymns
I stop up my ears when your singing ‘em
I [...]

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It’s been a pretty busy week this week. Actually, it’s been a pretty busy month. So, I’m finding it difficult to find much time to do any real posting.
Like Monday, here’s a few random things.
McChurch
Check out the discussion going on over at Mike’s blog. I hadn’t checked the comments since [...]

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I’m excited, as usual, about the college football season kicking off this week. I don’t know what games are scheduled this first week, but I do know Tennessee-California are playing Saturday so I look forward to kicking off the season with a good game (hopefully better than their game last year, which was over [...]

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Watching the local news tonight, I found that new evidence is being examined in the case of the West Memphis Three. Investigators were at the state crime lab today examining DNA evidence that could potentially lead to a new trial.
If you’re not familiar with the case, three eight year old boys in West Memphis, [...]

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Well, I decided to come back after all. During our weekend to remember a few weeks ago, I decided to take a month off, as I did once last year as well. At one point a few weeks ago, I considered just closing up shop, having grown a little weary of this after [...]

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Just a few things I’ve seen in the last couple of days but haven’t gotten around to posting yet:
Chris Gonzalez is reading through the Koran and recording his thoughts on a new blog, Blogging The Koran. As one who has never read the Koran (and probably never will), I’ll be interested to see his [...]

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I’m just getting started with Craig Borlase’s new book, God’s Gravity: The Upside-Down Life of Selfless Faith. Borlase challenges us to move away from a self-absorbed “me-first” faith and towards a life of sacrifice and social justice. I hope to post more from this book as I [...]

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I’ve purchased and read several books from Relevant Books over the last few years. A couple of months ago I added the book God’s Gravity : The Upside-Down Life of Selfless Faith to my list to look into further, and it’s scheduled to be released this coming week.
I came across this within the last couple [...]

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I saw this story over at Radical Congruency, regarding a man named Cory Maye in Mississippi. Maye had no criminal record, but is now on death row for killing an intruder who broke down the door of his home. He lived in a duplex, and the police had a drug-related warrant for his neighbor, but [...]

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