January 27, 2010-Live blogging the State of the Union address 1893 view(s) Sex Trafficking and the Super Bowl: A relationship the NFL should openly oppose 769 view(s) Rabbi Ralph Messer, Bishop Eddie Long, and the Auschwitz Torah 618 view(s) Manute Bol the radical Christian 401 view(s) Bishop Eddie Long crowned as a king 'not on the earth'? [VIDEO] 377 view(s) LifeWay's 'The Gospel Project' review 253 view(s) Excessive criticism and living in grace 201 view(s) 'Sherlock Holmes,' movie review 156 view(s) 'Alice in Wonderland,' movie review 133 view(s) Blake Griffin Dunk, January 30, 2012 [VIDEO] 106 view(s) 
Up for grabs is a group of ten (10) leadership books to keep or give to leaders around you. Most of these are used having been picked up at various sales or thrift shops over the last few months (not everyone actually reads them, you know) or books that were given to me for attending conferences. Included are: Pour Your Heart Into It, by Howard Schultz, founder of Starbucks, Credibility, by Kouzes and Posner,...
Stressed out? Does the weekend bring as much anxiety as Monday? Do you dread the alarm clock for more reasons than being a night-owl? You are not alone. Consider these recent items from the April 2010 edition of Fast Company magazine: According to a psychological survey done in 1938 and again in 2007, anxiety and mental-health issues are 5 times more common now among high-school and college students than they were toward the end...
Ideally the score of a film should enhance the images on the screen. This isn’t always the case. I was watching A Few Good Men the other night and my son agreed the music was often cheesy and not appropriate for the visuals. At some points I expected Tubbs and Crockett to come walking through the scene. Though there are certainly many movies with outstanding scores (not “soundtracks”), three that always come to mind...
I’m not much on broadcast news. There seems to be too much that isn’t news in every “news” cycle. I rarely watch CNN except on election night. There seems to be as much bias as FoxNews. So, for me at least, it’s news when CNN starts attacking Democrats given how far left-leaning they typically stand. It does bear noting that the following rant from Jack Cafferty is related to the press not getting its...
“The Lord moves in mysterious ways His wonders to perform.” So wrote the poet William Cowper, though it seems each time He moves in a mysterious way there is a rushed disclaimer that it was not the Lord after all. Yesterday, I posted a short note and a video by a young Canadian man, Chris Tse, entitled, “I’m sorry I’m a Christian.” There was some discussion on this site and I participated in a...
A college aged friend of ours, Jordan Burk, sent this to my son and then to me. It’s from a “Poetry Slam” in Vancouver, BC, in December 2009. The young man’s name is Chris Tse and his poem is entitled, “I’m Sorry I’m A Christian.” It’s worth your four minutes whether you are a believer or not. The primary reason I’m posting this is because a good many older believers are having an hard...
Every two years the “throw the bums out” band starts again its mournful dirge. It matters not whether Democrats or Republicans are in control of the government, people get out of sorts, get cranky and get fed up. With the healthcare reform debate and last night’s passage of the bill by the House, the rumbling is louder than in recent memory. Even so, every two years there are national elections that rarely change the...
I am not an alarmist by nature. Things around me are viewed with the eyes of scrutiny, but, by and large, I don’t get excited or alarmed by bad news. When Chicken Little runs by, the natural response is to stick out my leg. Assaults on the U. S. constitution by our “representatives” on the Hill, though, are raising my own “Terror Alert” scale to the reddest of the red (or “Elmo” if you...
I’m not sure what the literary equivalent of disruptive technology is, but When Helping Hurts: Alleviating Poverty Without Hurting the Poor. . .and Ourselves by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert would certainly fit the description. Perhaps cognitive realignment could be suggested. In the wake of the recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile combined with ongoing struggles in Sudan and concerns about unemployment in the U. S., minds and hearts have been turned to those...
If you are like me, you’ve assumed Ladies Home Journal to be a magazine about flowers, gardens, fashion and diet always with a cover graced by, say, Brooke Shields or Faith Hill, so the cover is as far as most men ever get. I stand corrected. This month’s issue (April ’10) LHJ has a probing and disturbing human interest story about Isatu Jalloh, a young, female refugee who escaped brutal treatment in Sierre Leone...