J Walking

I am completely new to the social networking world. I really only heard the term six months or so ago – an ‘early adopter’ I’m not. To boot, Beliefnet has a new social networking element that is fantastic and I’m going to start using it more frequently now that I have spend some time this…

There is something to John Edwards latest South Carolina ad. It isn’t just a message for South Carolina either. It is a message about our politics and the need to actually focus on issues, on details, on policy, on what it will take to address the massive issues that face us.

So, traditional Christian teaching about heaven is NOT that it is some fuzzy place in the sky. It is life here on a perfected earth – where heaven literally takes over earth. I’ve been thinking a lot about that. And here is one simplistic question: What kind of technology will exist? Will it be whatever…

Want to know what Sen. Obama thinks about Jesus? Here’s a pretty blunt statement from an interview with Christianity Today: I am a Christian, and I am a devout Christian. I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I believe that that faith gives me a path to be cleansed of sin…

Apple guy v. Mac guy… from a slightly different perspective

U2 has a new film opening. It is a 3D take on them in concert. It was… stupendous. The film can only be seen on IMAX screens so right off the bat it is 60 feet tall. To make it just a bit better, however, it utilizes a new digital 3-D technology that still requires…

The American Family Association and Catholic League are all atwitter over a foul-mouthed ESPN reporter: ESPN and its parent company, ABC, have refused to take any action against ESPN anchorwoman Dana Jacobson for her hateful, slurring remarks against Jesus, saying “F– — Jesus.” On January 11, Jacobson was speaking at a celebrity roast in Atlantic…

Fred Thompson’s candidacy is no more. The world stumbles at the shock of the news. There are lots of ways to explain the failure of his candidacy. The most obvious one is to say he seemed to want the office less and less the more he ran. With the exception of a few snappy minutes…

John McCain’s win tonight in South Carolina makes him the day’s only clear winner. Consider – the Clinton/Obama muckfest threatens to alienate and dishearten the Democratic party in ways that could make it almost as depressed as the Republican party. Between them which constituency aren’t they ticking off? Perhaps only Democratic bass fishermen and there…

For some blessed reason book publishers sometimes send me books. Books for free… imagine. Some of them are stunningly good. Here are three books I can’t recommend highly enough… more highly?… high ? You get the picture. Blogging is destroying my already limited grammatical capacity… capacity, grammatical?… capacity for grammering? In February comes N.T. Wright’s…

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