Here’s what Stanley Hauerwas has to say:
No task is more important than for the Church to take the Bible out of the hands of individual Christians in North America. Let us no longer give the Bible to all children when they enter the third grade or whenever their assumed rise to Christian maturity is marked, such as eighth-grade commencements. Let us rather tell them and their parents that they are possessed by habits far too corrupt for them to be encouraged to read the Bible on their own. [1]
The former PM speaks out:
One of the oddest questions I get asked in interviews, and I get asked a lot of questions, is: Is faith important to your politics? It’s like asking someone whether their health is important to them or their family.
From my sermon this morning:
Some excerpts from the text:
I’m having fun with my toys
and I don’t want to share them.
It’s hard to share.
Could I do it?
Maybe, if I really tried.
I can share when I want to.
I can do it!
I did it!
security upgrade. who has time for this?
I’m reading Chasing Daylight and liked this:
Long before September 11, I made it my personal mission to crusade against a long-standing Christian cliche. … I lament that it has become an accepted part of pop theology that the safest place to be is in the center of the will of God. …
… [T]he center of God’s will is not a safe place, but the most dangerous place in the world. God fears nothing and no one. God moves with intentionality and power. To live outside God’s will puts us in danger, but to live in His will makes us dangerous. … When we begin to seize our divine moments, we do not begin to live risk-free, but instead become free to risk.
This from the last page of chapter 6, “Risk,” on p. 151 of the paperback edition.
All the top programming-blog people are doing this. Why not small-town pastors, too?
90 cd 77 l 57 mv 42 llr 29 ll 25 rm 18 open 16 clear 14 cp 11 cat
Clearly, the thing I do most is look around: l is an alias for ls, ll for ls -l, and llr for ls -ltr. As a result, I don’t care how bad the finder is, most of the time.
A cool tool? open. I’d like to have something like that on Linux.
Fluid is the heat. It lets you create an application specific web browser. If you want a separate “application” to read email, for your blog, to run the control panel for your web host, etc., you do this and keep Firefox or Safari separate just for browsing.
Sad that the first post in almost 2 months is to say I just spent an hour backing things up and installing wordpress. The installation was flawless except for some pilot errors on my part. (You’d think I could type the correct values into a wp-config.php file, but apparently not.)
I had to drive west on Wednesday to meet with someone at Presbytery. When I got there I snapped this picture:
That night, the rollover occurred two miles short of my house. Here’s the picture I took the next morning when it was light.
I’m such an old duffer that I remember when this would have been pretty impressive. No more.
This works out to about $0.18 per mile (ignoring fuel and maintenance) and about 7,656 miles/year.
Cheap shot, I know. But how did they miss that one? It’s a “gimme.”
The Wapo says:
No single morsel of happiness data, though, is more intriguing than this: Republicans are happier than Democrats.
Anyway. I would sure like to see that survey. (Or a one-page summary of its results, times however many years it’s been since they started doing it.)
