Funny stuff: “When I saw that we had hired him [Korean-American Pastor James Kim], I was so excited,” said church treasurer Lilly Rudd. “I thought we could finally start an outreach to the Chinese and Filipino populations of Houston, but when he opened his mouth I noticed there was no accent at all – even [...]
Shabir Ally is debating Dave Hunt. Are Muslims going to start going after low-hanging fruit again?
The Doctor Who Christmas special this year pulled in its biggest numbers since 1979, which means that it even beat out the episode “Rose,” the first of the new series. One source said that it will play in the US in “early 2008″ but I don’t believe it for a minute.
Sandbox 1.2 is out, [...]
What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Midland
“You have a Midland accent” is just another way of saying “you don’t have an accent.” You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one [...]
This was a bit surprising. I was directed to this interview about the Holman Christian Standard Bible, which I had been given to understand was just another one of the recent, really good translations (alongside ESV and NASB95). But this interview is making me reconsider.
Problems:
Dr. Blum’s very first response, starting with “Well, the [...]
Looks like it’s time to upgrade from Vista to XP!
Jacob has recapped Series Three of Doctor Who. It’s way shorter, one sixteen-page post instead of thirteen of them. You can’t even begin to read this unless you’re ready for spoilers for the whole series. Typical Jacob, which you may consider good or bad. A little over-the-top for this series, but [...]
I have installed Shamus Young’s Wavatar plugin. If you have a Gravatar, it will use that instead. If you don’t, it will generate a Wavatar for you based on your email address.
Mine is incredibly ugly.
Comment below if you want to see what yours would look like. Theoretically, they should be the same [...]
T4G ads. Very funny stuff. Loved the picture of Al Mohler.
Reuters on Jerusalem Syndrome. I remember being there, and how disappointed I was when something like this did not happen to me.
From Transformed by Truth, an out-of-print booklet by somebody who helped shepherd the Worldwide Church of God out of their cult beliefs:
When you start carefully reading Anglo-Israelite literature, you begin to notice how it generally depends on folklore, legends, quasi-historical genealogies, and dubious etymologies. None of these sources proves an Israelite origin for the peoples [...]
Went out my back door on Monday, to climb into the car and go to work.
Didn’t realize there was even ice on the ground, much less ice on the steps.
Took my first step on the concrete back steps. Total wipeout: both feet went out from under me. Flailed like a madman to [...]
Social workers. (HT: TJIC, who else?)
Forgive a little geeking out, but there is now a fully-redundant — and I do mean “fully,” as in “you can take a hammer to one of the motherboards or just yank a RAM chip and it will survive and stay up” — Linux server. The more things change, the more they stay the [...]
The first Prince Caspian trailer is up. (HT: Challies.)
From a Michigan State study about people having sex with friends sans commitment, as reported by FOXnews:
Worse yet, the open communication once cherished by two buddies, now FWBs, breaks down. Any talk beyond the titillating becomes taboo, with lovers often afraid or unable to talk about the relationship itself.
Suddenly, bearing the scarlet letter of a [...]
Mohler has a lot to say about Pullman and His Dark Materials (the trilogy of books that starts with The Golden Compass, just coming out to theaters). (Also, see our new poll about this on the sidebar.)
From a 2004 sermon by John Piper (sorry for the lengthy quote, but it sets the stage):
Second, individuality is valued in Christ. Look at verse 5 again and focus on the second half of the verse: “So we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.”
One could ague that Paul’s [...]
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