Growing up as the son of a Presbyterian minister had its more interesting moments, I can assure you, but one thing that much of my upbringing lacked was an experience in racially diverse congregations. Presbyterians, not known to be a…
Merry Christmas, everyone. Hope you and your families had a wonderful day.
Heh. Church Hopping presents Ten Verses Never Preached On. Onan, males’ naughty bits and Ehud the Left-Handed Swordsman all make appearances. (I love that Ehud cat. Used to have an old K6 Linux box named ‘ehud’…)
“Sheikhs on a Plane” -James Taranto in last Wednesday’s Best of the Web in reference to six Muslim clerics removed from a US Airways flight in Minneapolis due to other passengers’ concerns Heh.
Imagine my total non-surprise to find out that the man behind Dashboard Mohammed, a bobblheaded version of the now-infamous “bomb turban Mohammed” Danish cartoon, is a former United States Marine (Note to the NY Daily News: There is no such…
I can’t speak in detail about it, but yesterday offered me some clarity and insight into current goings-on in my life. I completely whiffed on an important step in pursuit of an opportunity about which I already had a great…
A few weeks ago, an anonymous generous soul decided to liberate our Passat wagon of its driver’s-side rearview mirror. Apparently, its existence was superfluous, so much so that said generous soul neglected to even stop and offer an explanation, so…
Things have been busy – very busy – over the last few days, hence my lack of posting. First off, I was officially installed as an elder of my church this past Sunday. I had to give my testimony in…
May you live in interesting times. –Supposed ancient Chinese curse “Watching” the events in Lebanon unfold on the newswires, I ran through an extremely odd combination of feelings at work today. I felt detached, almost entirely removed from the world…
My wife recently read a book outlining a decent spiritual/mental model to help one to deal with the ins and outs of daily life. The model goes as follows: Either the night prior to or the morning of a day…
