Mark Driscoll is a Christian superstar. He’s the head pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, and started a church planting organization called the Acts 29 Network. He is in the news a lot because he writes books and says inflammatory things: He suggested that Ted Haggard’s wife was to blame for is affair with a male prostitute because she “let herself go.” He said it is a wife’s biblical duty to perform oral sex. He once posted a question... Read more

You have to watch this SNL video! The “Youtube” generation got a self-confidence check Saturday night, in what I think was the best sketch-based social commentary on SNL since the last presidential election. This video is hilarious. There is just enough truth to the premise to make us all a little uncomfortable. It’s kind of scary. Will my kids be brimming with unearned self-confidence? The best exchange was: Taylor: “I’m what you would call Twitter Famous.”Host: “Meaning?”Taylor: “Not famous.”Host: “I... Read more

You know that thing they have each year all of the companies who make consumer electronics get together for a convention to show off their stuff (and apple never comes because they have their own way of doing everything)? Well, it’s called the Consumer Electronics Show & it just happened. Here’s a quick list of 10 winners & losers from techradar.com – the interesting news is that they think Lenovo has situated itself as a future electronic superpower. I stumbled... Read more

I confess that when I was young many people who surrounded me in my little world held MLK in deep suspicion. He was not considered a great man by them. I often heard statements like, “Once the FBI files on MLK are opened, the world will really see what he was like. And they won’t be celebrating him so much.” I confess that I believe this was rooted in blatant racism. I confess that I have never suffered for anything... Read more

Just for fun I put together a Civic Literacy Quiz – don’t think too much about it, just fire through and then post your score in the comments. I’ll post a few notes that explain the answers in the comments a little later. http://apps.quibblo.com/static/flash/qwidget/qwidget.swf?s=&theme=quibblo&quiz=g39PpHU Quizzes by Quibblo.com | SnapApp Quiz Apps Read more

To promote his new book called Sexperiment, MegaChurch pastor Ed Young is having his very own “bed-in,” you can watch the promotional video below. By “bed-in” he means that he and his wife are putting a bed on the roof of their ginormous church, (ala-Yoko and John), and then they are going to stay in bed for 24 hours and broadcast it live on the internet. No word yet on if they are actually going to fool around. Pastor Young... Read more

On New Year’s Eve – Cee Lo Green stepped in it. The Rolling Stone headline read: “Cee Lo Green Outrages John Lennon Fans by Changing Lyrics to ‘Imagine.’” The controversy could shed new light on a great old song. THE SONG: I’ve always loved the song Imagine. For one thing, I grew up on the piano. I’ve played well over 1500 gigs now with an acoustic or electric guitar in my hands, but piano still feels like home. Great piano... Read more

It’s an election year so nonsense is afoot no matter where you turn. But I just read a very common sense argument for the common good. And it was not at Sojourners or a lefty news outfit. It was from Fox’s Bill Kristol.In my most recent article at the Huffington Post, I had some harsh things to say about Fox News & the right wing radio crowd. I honestly think Fox has grown to fully resemble the caricature of themselves... Read more

I make my confession – make yours! I confess that in the car on the way to have pizza Sunday afternoon, I sang Bon Jovi’s “Living on a Prayer” at the top of my lungs with my two boys. I confess that for the first time in my life – I have now heard somebody else butcher the words to “Living on a Prayer” worse than I do; two somebodies, actually. It was nice. “Take my hand and we’re going... Read more