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The Right Way to Pray?

Illustration by Andrew Rae
This is an excellent article on modern prayer from this week’s New York Times Magazine: The Right Way to Pray? The author, Zev Chafets, a Jew, explores the different ways Jewish and Judeo-Christian sects pray and how their prayer has changed over the last several decades and why. It also discusses how, [...]

Albino persons in Tanzania are being mutilated and killed.

Under the Same Sun is an organization established to help get governmental protection for persons with Albinism in Tanzania. Albinism is a condition found in humans and animals where a lack of pigmentation in the skin creates a very white complexion and an extreme vulnerability to the suns rays and subsequently, skin cancer. In Africa [...]

Fallout 3

Boy, was I excited to hear that there will be another installment of the Fallout computer, role playing game series. I loved playing Fallout 2. I remember spending hours in my second year of college, playingthat game when I should have been doing studio assignments. I thought it was entertaining, engaging and beautiful. I especially [...]

another nod to Portland

Lykke Li, in the Guest List section of Pitchfork says this:
>> Favorite Venue
“The Doug Fir in Portland. I’ve only played there once, but I guess it’s my favorite– it was so unexpected. It was so cold; we’d been freezing our asses off and I’d been sick and having guys fucking talk in my face all [...]

God rides a bike

“It was God’s way of saying, ‘It’s time to put a stop to this’ ”
These words spoken by Inspector Bryce Evans of the Toronto police, 14 Division, refer to the moment when Igor Kenk was caught in the act of stealing a bicycle. Which wouldn’t be a big deal except that it would’ve been yet another [...]

shoes for me and shoes for you

I just bought a pair of TOMS shoes. Not only are they super cool and not only do they feel real good to wear and not only do they come in a wealth of colors and materials but TOMS also donates a pair of shoes to a kid in Argentina or Africa for every pair [...]

super-human

I just watched the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight. First, let me say that it was AMAZING. I won’t spoil anything here but I will say that it was probably the best comic book adaptation that I have ever seen. I’ve always appreciated the tear-down-your-heroes, human-realism style comic stories. (Those in the know call [...]

true fasting

My pastor delivered a moving sermon last Sunday. He called our congregation to be a community marked by our compassion for the poor. He read from Isaiah 58 and I was shaken by these verses. I had read them before but now they seemed so much more important.
I’ve spent most of the first nine years [...]

revival

I was going to try to write a fair analysis of the Lakeland Revival. I was going to write just a topical entry about Todd Bentley and the “revival” in Lakeland, Florida. I was going to leave it up to you to judge for yourself whether this man is from God or not. But I’ve [...]