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In a world of mindless entertainment, sometimes one wonders if there is still a place for a brainy romantic spy yarn, and apparently, thank goodness, the answer is still yes. Such a movie is Julie Robert’s return as a leading lady to the big screen, having turned the big 4-0 a while back. Yes she…

Ah those college years….. here are two pictures from a UNC college retreat trip to the beach in N.C. Kudos to you if you can pick BW3 out in these pictures. Also in these pictures— Tom Morris a future teacher of the year at Notre Dame, Don Tyndall (no not the coach of Morehead State)…

http://www.garyhabermas.com/video/video.html Here is a discussion worthy of your attention. Kudos to James Foster for the link. There are in fact many links on this page. Some to the discussion held at Westminster in London between the three figures mentioned, some to the debates Gary Habermas has had in Cambridge and elsewhere with atheists of various…

Kirk Whalum is one of my very favorite Christian jazz artists, not to mention he does a lot of jazz Gospel and so I have some samples here, and you will see he brings the heavy hitters with him— see which version of this song you like the best, involving Jonathan Butler, Natalie Cole, Stevie…

Michael McDonald is one of my favorite soulful singers of all time, and he has done a lot of work backing up others and helping them make hit records. James Ingram, from Ohio was a Gospel singer who had some soul hits as well, and here is one of them under the title “Yo Mo…

In our world where human beings seem to think they have ‘entitlement’ to all things which can be claimed we now can wondrously behold the miracle of the ‘theological patent’ or copyright of theological ideas— like say the theory of double imputation. Kudos to Craig Beard for finding this out— Consider http://www.wikipatents.com/US6974327.html

There is an interesting new article in the Sunday NY Times on Barack Obama’s prayer partners. Here is the link, see what you think….. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/us/politics/15pastor.html?th&emc=th

<a href=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MCBNSn1DlAU/SbxQybjhnYI/AAAAAAAACGo/51AFHOV9vsc/s1600-h/GC+426.jpg”> These picture were all from the recent ministry trip to Houston. The top picture is the beautiful dome in St. Mary’s Seminary where I lectured. The rest of the pictures are from the very fine exhibits at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. There was a special exhibit on Bactria, Alexander the Great’s…

———— N.T. Wright’s “Surprised by Hope” has been called an instant classic, and now with two years of positive reviews under its belt, it was time to sit down with the Bishop and ask some follow up questions which arise from some of the things he has said in the book and some of the…

It sneaks up on you unawaresWhile you are preoccupiedIt catches you quite unpreparedEnthralled as you are in your pride. Blindsided, you flinch instinctivelyWhen suddenly you are accostedYou realize in an instance ‘it’s now…’Or else you’ve totally lost it. All those years of pure preparationAll those long times of careful thoughtHave arrived at this destinationSo why…
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