Random Acts of Verbiage

I think this is one of my favorite post titles from Ace of Spades: An Inconvenient Energy Bill. It made me crack up, probably too much. Oh, and the content was interesting too. Everyone’s favorite environmentalist, Al Gore, apparently uses 20 times more energy than the average American at his estate in Tennessee (oh, and [...]

Some family members recently asked me if I knew anything about The Secret that is often talked about on the Oprah show. Well, having never watched a single episode, I hadn’t. But the way it was described to me, it sounds much like Gnosticism (which goes way back to New Testament times). The essence of [...]

Oh yeah, Lent started on Wednesday and I forgot to post! Ash Wednesday starts the 40 days (+6 Sundays) of the Lenten season leading up to Easter and the resurrection. (See my post on the dichotomy of Mardi Gras and Ash Wednesday in today’s scoiety.) This year I have given up carbonated beverages for Lent. [...]

I don’t know much about Barack Obama. Just wanted to get that out there from the start. From what I have seen of him, he is a good politician. He seems (possibly like Kerry during his presidential run?) like he will say anything to anyone to get them on their side. He just seems to [...]

While looking at Paul’s conversion in Acts with my Bible study I was reminded of something that I found interesting: the early church often went by the title The Way rather than Christian. Six time in Acts followers of Christ or that community was referred to as The Way. The term Christian is only used [...]

Last week I drove down to Mount Vernon to catch Snodfest, a night of music to raise money for Theo’s Work an non-prof supporting humanitarian efforts in southern Haiti. There were three bands that I wanted to see: Corbin Watkins, The Tallest Building in the World, and The Lonely Forest. I had seen Corbin twice [...]