Archive for April, 2007

Ultimate Help Menu

Friday, April 13th, 2007

I recently converted from Windows to Mac. As with any conversion experience, at the beginning there is a certain amount of bewilderment to be expected. Sometimes, when I mouse up to the Help menu, I might be wishing that this is what I would find:

 
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Stop the Presses!! Boyd Slips from #1 Again!!!

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

BREAKING NEWS! Glenside, PA (WTS) - In a shocking development that left thousands shaking their heads in stunned unbelief, Sam Boyd slipped from his perch as #1 Coolest Person Anywhere for the second time in as many weeks. Details here. (Women, children, and those faint of heart may not want to click that link.)

“Hallelujah” the Critic’s Hat Removeth!

Sunday, April 8th, 2007

This morning we went to Easter services with our daughter and her family at their church in North Carolina. It’s a large suburban church, not quite mega- by today’s Osteenian standard, but still larger than what I prefer. When I’m in such a church it becomes very easy for me to surreptitiously slip my critic’s [...]

Beating the Bible with a Hose

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

Preparing us for National Poetry Month—and I know you’ve been making your plans for weeks now—my friend Mindy Withrow offers up the poem below by Billy Collins. As I read it, I wondered if we don’t too often treat the text of Scripture the same way.
Introduction to Poetry
I ask them to take a [...]

Pre-order The Ringing Bell by Derek Webb

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

Singer-songwriter Derek Webb, formerly of Caedmon’s Call, today announced that his newest project, The Ringing Bell, is available for pre-order. The CD will be officially released on or about May 1, but those purchasing a special pre-order package (which will include the CD and a related 96-page graphic novel) are able to download all the [...]

MilePost 11

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

My every-so-often accumulation of “stuff” I find on the web:

Sermons: longer=better? (HT: Mark Horne)
Derek Webb in USA Today
See the history of major world religions in 90 seconds.
Should creeds & confessions be revised? Carl Trueman has reservations, but Matt Bucherri says, “Au contraire.”