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Thou shalt not have any other Providers before me. Thou shalt not make for thyself a sacrilegious image using Photoshop or Powerpoint. Thou shalt not bow down and worship thy technology for I am a jealous God punishing the third and fourth generation of computer programs with bugs and viruses and the blue screen of…

In the category of closing the barn door after the cow has escaped, we now have the banning of the Da Vinci Code movie after it has had a 22 day run there and has exceeded all expectations in ticket sales. Here is the link– http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/10/world/asia/10china.html?th&emc=th This seems to have been the response of the…

With an all star cast (Kevin Kline, Meryl Strep, Lilly Tomlin, Woody Harrelson, Virginia Masden Lindsey Lohan, John C. Reily, Tommy Lee Jones etc.), and the ole boy himself, Garrison Keillor, and a reenactment of an episode of the Prairie Home Companion in the offing, the heavy odds would be on this being a lot…

I have to admit that I have problems with mega-churches, and many of their pastors. And it is also the case that I have been critical of Rick Warren’s mega-selling “The Purpose Driven Life” as being too individualistic and other-worldly in some aspects of its theological underpinnings. But you can tell a lot about a…

I took the longest commercial flight in the world these past two days— Singapore to Newark N.J. non-stop. Its supposed to take a mere 18 and a half hours. Ours went a bit longer. Singapore Airlines is justly famous for its comfort and service and so I was well cared for. But what to do…

I have just finished the better part of the week lecturing in Singapore, a city/state of 4 million people living on an island of 250 square miles, just north of the equator (think hot and humid). It was of course at one time a part of the British Empire but now perhaps has 2% British…

“Changed.I say I’m changed.Ironing out one’s deepest wrinklesIsn’t strange.” “Gone.Perhaps gone on.Those wanderlusting feelingsOnce so strong.” “Clear.Horizon’s clear.I see where I must go While standing here.” “Hope.That helps me cope.Even though I’ve started downThe dark and dusty slope.” “Resolved.To not look back.In longing or in angerAnd get off track.” “Possessed.Not a possessor.By a Spirit not…

İ have been pondering something for a while on this trip as İ have visited one archaeological site after another. Here we find facts, hard realities in the ground which of course can be subject to various interpretations. Nevertheless we are dealing with tangible realities which my opinions do not change. When a person ıs…

So here I am ın Turkey mındıng my own business near the Syrian border and checking out Antioch and there ıt ıs– the Davincı Code billboard advertising the movie.Its omnipresent apparently. Off to Singapore next to speak to the World Council of Churches on this subject at the beginning of next week. But İ dıgress.…

Ron Howard’s two hour and 29 minute adaptation of Dan Brown’s mega-selling thriller “The Da Vinci Code” has now hit the big screen to mostly negative reviews (see www.rottentomatoes.com). Having read some thirty criticisms of the movie I was prepared for this movie to be a bomb. Actually, its not. It stands up rather well…
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