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Source: One family that lives in Colorado Springs found their water barrel empty every morning. They tried to discover what was happening at night so they installed a camera. This is what they caught. (more…) Read more
Source: One family that lives in Colorado Springs found their water barrel empty every morning. They tried to discover what was happening at night so they installed a camera. This is what they caught. (more…) Read more
Almighty God, you have built your Church upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone: Grant us so to be joined together in unity of spirit by their teaching, that we may be made a holy temple acceptable to you; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Read more
Some good charts and graphs at this site, but here is the Top Ten list: And the Top 10 Healthiest Vegetables Are… Watercress Chinese Cabbage Chard Beet Greens Spinach Chicory Leaf Lettuce Parsley Romain Lettuce Collard Greens Sorry kale lovers: it ranked 15. Other results of interest to me (because these are some of my favorite PFVs): Arugula ranked 18th. And carrots, tomatoes, and lemons hit numbers 26, 27, and 28. Read more
Image credit Reviving baseball in African American communities — now I like basketball, but baseball’s a great game! The number of major league baseball players on opening day rosters who identified themselves as African-Americans dropped to 8.3 percent this year. The highest percentage of African-Americans was 19 in 1986, according to Mark Armour of the Society of American Baseball Research. The portion of black players is listed as around 27 percent in the mid-1970s, but Armour told the New York... Read more
BY GOODLUCK JONATHAN June 26 at 7:47 PM [More at the link.] Goodluck Jonathan is president of Nigeria. I have had to remain quiet about the continuing efforts by Nigeria’s military, police and investigators to find the girls kidnapped in April from the town of Chibok by the terrorist group Boko Haram. I am deeply concerned, however, that my silence as we work to accomplish the task at hand is being misused by partisan critics to suggest inaction or even weakness. My... Read more
Clergy Robes and Anonymous Notes in Church When I was a student at Princeton, I got the chance to hear a lecture delivered by Stanley Hauerwas, a theologian whose work I knew only from the snarky comments I heard whispered by certain professors as I waited on their tables during faculty lunches. Hauerwas was a like a breath of fresh air: robustly Barthian, absolutely not a Calvinist, and he had a mouth dirtier than my own. During the lecture, which was... Read more
Words without Props, by John Frye I realize I have quite a challenge in reviewing The Story of God Bible Commentary: The Sermon on the Mount by Dr. Scot McKnight. Scot compresses so much into succinct and provocative paragraphs. Living in Grand Rapids, MI, the home of the Amway Corporation, I liken Scot’s writing on the SoM to Amway soap: just a little pinch goes a long, long way. We’re considering chapter 8 on “oaths” (Matthew 5:33-37). I feel something... Read more
Sarah Pulliam Bailey: RNS) World Vision tested evangelical boundaries three months ago when it announced it would allow its employees to be in same-sex marriages. The policy was short-lived; the relief group reversed it within 48 hours after supporters threatened to pull donations. In the past, World Vision has requested that it be known as a Christian humanitarian organization, not necessarily an evangelical one, because many on staff are not from an evangelical background. But now, in the wake of the controversy, the board of the $1... Read more
Tom Morello: One of America’s finest guitarists has a letter in Rolling Stones magazine. I have the bare outline here, and at the link you can read his explanation. By Tom Morello June 21, 2014 12:05 AM ET I’m a Chicago Cubs fan. I grew up in Libertyville, Illinois and attended my first game at Wrigley Field when I was four. My dear Aunt Isabelle, who got me into the Cubs, lived 82 years and never saw a World Series victory.... Read more
Karl Giberson has an interesting article at The Daily Beast – What’s Driving America’s Evolution Divide?. A recent Gallup Poll reported a consistent increase in the number of people who hold that humans evolved, but God had no part in the process, a steady number who hold that humans did not evolve and a drop in the number of people accepting God-guided evolution of humans. Giberson looks at a number of different aspects of this, but centers in on the question... Read more
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