Archive for December, 2006

The best-seller of all time

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

The word of God is a lamp unto our feet, a light unto our path, and a sure­fire way to enhance the bot­tom line, accord­ing to the New Yorker.
I recently sat in on an Alpha class with the lead­er­ship of our church, and the topic was the bible. The class began with a read­ing from […]

Be a man, use crippleware!

Friday, December 8th, 2006

Shaun Groves points out an LA Times arti­cle about “God­Men,” some sort of Promise Keep­ers on steroids con­fer­ence aim­ing to res­cue the church from girly men and their wus­si­fy­ing influ­ence.
Best part? The flash slideshow to the tune of some sub-Night Ranger 80’s soundtrack-sounding song about “being a man” and “grow­ing a pair.” Judg­ing by the […]

A break in the hipster fog

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

The Onion AV Club takes a break from can­on­iz­ing Neu­tral Milk Hotel and the like to rec­og­nize Pink Floyd’s Ani­mals for the bril­liance it is. Although the “usual touches like celes­tial keyboards…are gone” bit makes me won­der if the reviewer lis­tened to either “Dogs” or “Sheep” past the 5 minute mark — Wright’s got some […]

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