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Yesterday I stood with other believers and sang It Is Well With My Soul. We were doing the version with the updated chorus: It is well; it is well. Through the storm I am held. It is well, it is well with my soul. We arrived at one of the later verses and sang: My sin, oh the bliss of this glorious thought; my sin, not in part, but the whole is nailed to...
Last night on Larry King Live, recording artist Jennifer Knapp discussed her recent coming out as a lesbian. This likely would have made about as big a splash as Wanda Sykes recent announcement, which is to say almost none, except that Knapp was for several years, before taking a five year hiatus, an artist in the Christian music industry. The above clip was the longest that could be found this soon and, apparently, is...
For as long as any current voter has been alive, United States politics has been dominated by a two-party system, Democrat and Republican. Very occasionally this cycle is broken by someone like Joe Lieberman the former Democrat re-elected as an Independent. At the state level there is precious little more variety, with the odd Reform/Independence Party candidate like Jesse Ventura being elected governor of Minnesota in 1999. In 2003 the Libertarian Party could boast...
Thursday evening, April 22, 2010, the 9th Georgia congressional district meeting of GOOOH (Get Out Of Our House) will be held at the Spout Springs branch of the Hall County Library. GOOOH is a citizens organization looking for ways to replace the current congress leaders who know how to lead and make decisions as to what is best for the country. Here’s a chance to demonstrate that “we the people” are willing to do...
From The Washington Post: President Obama mandated Thursday that nearly all hospitals extend visitation rights to the partners of gay men and lesbians and respect patients’ choices about who may make critical health-care decisions for them, perhaps the most significant step so far in his efforts to expand the rights of gay Americans. From The Los Angeles Times: In a memo to his Health and Human Services agency, Obama ordered the secretary to ensure...
The new book Green Like God: Unlocking the Divine Plan for Our Planet, by Southern Baptist leader Jonathan Merritt, is likely to ruffle more feathers and garner both more praise and more criticism than any book by any other Southern Baptist author in 2010. That’s because Merritt holds the unusual position of being Southern Baptist and environmentally friendly, or “green” to use the popular term. Southern Baptists, long suspected of being the chaplaincy arm...
Last week’s posting of Chris Tse’s poem, “I’m Sorry I’m a Christian,” resulted in a lively debate both here and elsewhere. “Chris Tse” was highly searched topic and this site is still getting traffic from those seeking out Chris’ poem. Timothy Dalrymple at patheos.com was able to conduct an interview with Chris recently about the poem and the massive interest that it stirrred. I’m including one question and response below, then a link to...
CNN is reporting that breastfeeding literally saves lives; 911 children a year to be exact. If most new moms would breastfeed their babies for the first six months of life, it would save nearly 1,000 lives and billions of dollars each year, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics. The article also states, The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family...
Georgia Representative Hank Johnson’s fear about Guam was fully realized at 2:00 pm local time yesterday, April 2, as it suddenly capsized after a beach party attracted too many residents. The shifting of weight caused the western side of the island to lift and, with the majority of the 178,000 population on the eastern side, caused a flipping over with all residents either thrown into the ocean or drowned under the upside down land...
If you have not seen this, you really need to take two minutes of your life and listen closely. On March 25, 2010, Representative Hank Johnson, a sitting United States congressman from Georgia’s 4th district, states in a committee hearing that Guam might “tip over and, uh, capsize” if 8,000 United States Marines and their families are added to the current population. This is not a late April Fools. Wonder why Washington is in...