Farmteam Community Church
American Idol's amazing popularity makes it a very interesting subject for cultural criticism. This year's win of a former worship leader over an androgynous rocker raised the following question on GetReligion, an insightful blog: Has Sunday morning in megachurch America already turned into the American Idol minor leagues? Now I add my own questions: is the American church so worldly that such a question even makes sense? Why would worship leaders in Christian churches be potential powerhouses...
Shelby Steele: Affirmative Action Doesn’t Solve the Real Problem
Challenging insight on race from public intellectual Shelby Steele in the Washington Post: Affirmative action has always been more about the restoration of legitimacy to American institutions than the uplift of blacks and other minorities. For 30 years after its inception, no one even bothered to measure its effectiveness in minority progress.... Affirmative action has been quite effective in its actual, if unacknowledged, purpose. It has restored moral authority and legitimacy to American...
Turn Right! Turn Right! Turn Right!
I once sold a cartoon to a magazine for $20. In a vain attempt to regain what amounted to a $120/hr job, I write down cartoon ideas regularly. Here was my latest, but so far I had thought it too cheeky to do anything with: Ha ha! Well, if you steal this idea, don't credit me, because truth is stranger than fiction.
Books for Sale!
UPDATE: Some lots have sold. I got married and I have some extra books I want to sell. Here they are. Brand new, hardcover. $10. Brand new, shrink-wrapped, $22. A must-have. All the books on CD read by well-known actors plus a softcover single-volume edition of the Chronicles. A minimum of $30 at Amazon. Please enrich your life by buying this! Brand new softcover single-volume edition of the Chronicles. $10. Ranked third at the amazing bestcommentaries.com. I'm only selling it because I bought...
NKJV Study Bible on Genesis 1:1–2
I'm reviewing the NKJV Study Bible right now, and here it is on Genesis 1:1–2: 1:1 ....Even though the word for God is plural, the verb for created is singular. It means "to fashion anew." This oft-used word in the Bible always has God as its subject. Here, it means that God renewed what was in a chaotic state. God changed chaos into cosmos, disorder into order, emptiness into fulness.... 1:2 The two words without form . . . void express one concept—chaos. The earth had been reduced to this...