Don’t have a cow over Chick-fil-A, man!
My post on the unlikely friendship between Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy and Campus Pride executive director Shane Windmeyer prompted GetReligion reader Joel to comment: I’ve seen it pointed out that...
View ArticleWORLD on the radio
As you relax by the fire or run errands this weekend, join Nick Eicher and Joseph Slife as they host the latest edition of The World and Everything in It . WORLD's engaging radio news magazine features...
View ArticleLearning to Lead All Over Again
I spent the past few days speaking on adaptive leadership to church leaders of Fellowship of Presbyterians. After being asked a lot of questions, I decided to repost this piece from October 11, 2011,...
View ArticleMove In Day
Last week my team moved into our new office space and I provided a number of images and even a few videos. I particularly like the original wood floors which are marred and beat up after years of use....
View ArticleWeek In Review (2/2/13)
Here’s a recap of blog posts you may have missed this week: Worship, it’s about me right? - Great authenticity in this post, we’ve all been there, when something even like Worship becomes center stage...
View ArticleSafety Is a Myth
Recently Pastor John released his short book Risk Is Right, a significantly expanded version of a chapter originally published in Don't Waste Your Life. In Risk Is Right, Pastor John claims the...
View ArticleInspired Blogger: {Elizabeth @ Just Following Jesus}
I am so excited to introduce this month’s Inspired Blogger. I stumbled upon Elizabeths’ blog in a blog hop (my memory escapes me as to which one and exactly when), but I instantly felt a heart...
View ArticleGet Your Act Together… PRAY!
It is important to pray. Did you know that God is waiting on you to pray? Did you know that God can affect things if we pray? We should not assume that everything that happens is automatically God’s...
View ArticleStrength for the Journey: “With Friends Like These” – Numbers 12
Before it was a movie in 1998, the screen play written by Frank Messina called “With Friends Like These” was already a pop hit among a group of actors in Hollywood. The movie was no great success as I...
View ArticleHigh, helical, bicycle circus act from 1900 looks more fun than dangerous
From the National Library of Ireland… Not quite a Wall of Death, but this must surely have been quite a thrilling act for audiences at Lloyd’s Circus, nonetheless…. Lloyd’s Circus (aka Lloyd’s Mexican...
View ArticleGetReligion turns nine; Newsweek sort of vanishes
So once again, with feeling. Nine years ago today, the Rt. Rev. Douglas LeBlanc clicked a mouse and GetReligion went live. As I have noted before, I actually wrote the “What we do, why we do it” post...
View ArticleNow I See
Unfortunately when I was in first grade I couldn’t see and I had to go get glasses. At first I was nervous about getting them, but my eye doctor put me at ease. When I finally got them and put …...
View ArticlePriceless Nuggets from Jeremiah
Key Scriptures in the Old Testament – # 2 Pastor Billye Brim teaches from I Corinthians 10:32 – there are 3 different groups in the Bible. 1) The Jews; 2) The Nations (those who refuse or don’t know...
View ArticleI Wonder…
is my life & ministry Biblical or just a paraphrase? how can I consistently add to my prayer life (both quality & quantity)? am I improving as a husband & father? who are my true friends?...
View ArticleBeatboxer keeps up with a metronome beat at increasingly fast settings
(via Laughing Squid)
View ArticlePete Rollins: You Cannot Hear the Revelation Without Heeding It
Pete Rollins always wigs me out a little bit. My philosophical vocabulary is sorely lacking – continental philosophy all the more. So when I try to listen to someone like Rollins or Caputo I know that...
View ArticleSunday Considerations: Liberal Giving
text before content Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish them in every good...
View ArticleAUSTRALIA : DISASTER APPEAL AFTER DEVASTATION
Catholic Communications, Sydney Archdiocese,1 Feb 2013Queensland Flood AppealAustralians dug deep for the victims of 2009's Black Saturday Bushfires. They were equally generous two years ago when...
View ArticleAMERICA : COLOMBIA : FARC KIDNAPPINGS PUT NEGOTIATIONS AT RISK
Agenzia Fides REPORT - Two police officers kidnapped and clashes with government forces in the city of Policarpa in southern Colombia, with a toll of four soldiers killed: the end of the "ceasefire"...
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