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Roy Ratcliff is an ordinary minister of Jesus Christ with a little church in Wisconsin called Mandrake Road Church of Christ. It is small enough to not even have its own website. But a story today reminds us that being an ordinary minister for Jesus is to do extraordinary, even bizarre things. Roy Ratcliff became…

A little story this morning tells the tale of a 150-year-old Chestnut tree that is about to be cut down. Sad news that such a grand tree will fall; sadder news that the tree is the one Anne Frank wrote about in her diaries: “Nearly every morning I go to the attic to blow the…

Here’s to hoping that more American corporations begin to see their employees – and their responsibilities and debt to them – more like Google does. Well done Google. Looking for a blogger? 😉

The experience last night on Bill Maher’s show was…memorable. I’ll eventually find and post youtube or transcript or something. There are two big things I wish that I had said; first, that so long as we demonize and hate our political “enemies” no one is going to get anywhere. There was a bit of that…

James Kirchick reports on the “other” African genocide – the one going on in Zimbabwe. While millions of Americans are spending $16 to buy The Secret, people are living on mice in Zimbabwe: Less than ten miles from Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s mansion in Harare–the largest private residence on the African continent–Cleophus Masxigora digs for…

World Community Grid is an initiative backed by IBM and others to create a massive “computer grid” for select projects that benefit mankind in a variety of ways. Your role? Allow the time your computer’s unused time to make small computations and send it back to a central server. It doesn’t impact your computer performance…

A friend sent me the link.

I’ll be on Bill Maher’s show tonight on HBO with fellow panelists… Roseanne Barr (!) and Dana Milbank of The Washington Post. Tune in.

The beauty of a cross-country flight is the wonder of no Internet connections. As such, I was able to start to dig through old emails. Whenever you dig, you find gold and I found this from a dear friend last year who I was talking to about life’s challenges and tragedies and God’s place in/absence…

…forthcoming today on James Dobson’s Focus on the Family radio show, Newt Gingrich acknowledges and says he has gotten on his knees to seek God’s forgiveness for, the extra-marital affair he was having while simultaneously leading the charge against President Clinton’s impeachment. “The honest answer is yes,” Gingrich, a potential 2008 Republican presidential candidate, said…
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