Monthly Archive for April, 2008

At least one researcher has shown that the length and “awesomeness” of your facial hair directly affects the success of your programming language.

It took me 13 billion years, because I wanted you to like it.
I told you 6 days, because I didn’t want you to feel bad.

This time he hasn’t shot someone, but may be showing a little more in the reflection of his sunglasses than he wishes.

Article here. Seems like there’s a scantily clad lady in the reflection of his glasses… or is that just an illusion?

I’ve just added nakedpastor.com to my feeds. I read a few of his recent posts and very much enjoy his perspectives. Here’s some of his artwork that I find particularly brilliant:

And a book review:

I just finished studying Frank Viola’s and George Barna’s recent book, Pagan Christianity: Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices. I want to start to say what I appreciate about the book and finish with what I think are some concerns.

Reading this book reminded me of the hours of ambitious dreaming and passionate debates that occurred during my bible college and seminary days with other visionary young radicals. It evoked the intensity with which I first went into the pastoral ministry, like a bull in a china shop, like Jesus with a woven whip into the den of thieves. In other words, I agree with almost everything they say. I have a problem with churches owning so much money, property and buildings; I question liturgy and orders of worship; I struggle with the one-man monologue sermon model; I have always wrestled with “full-time paid ministry” pastor positions; I disregard Sunday dress; I don’t like the control of worship music by a select and talented few; I don’t believe in tithing; I question the sacraments, formal Christian education, and our whole approach to the New Testament. In short, I too kick against the system. So, if you want to get an idea of what the authors insist are the pagan roots of most of our religious practices and compare them to the New Testament and early Church, get this book. With the plentiful footnotes and bibliography, it’ll give you enough to study.

But I have some concerns. Even before I got to the substance of the book, I read a line in the forward that concerned me. The following, they say, is their “proposal“…

I plan to get this book. It sounds interesting.

Every day that I’ve logged into Facebook this week I’m getting this:

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“Carl” is one Carl Parnell. I do not know him.
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I just finished upgrading my site to Wordpress 2.5, and it’s awesome. The admin features on the backend are totally rearranged and are much easier/more logical to get to. There’s also a lot of new features around media postings, podcasts and so on.

If you notice anything broken, let me know.