What information is slowly being verified and clarified is genuinely horrifying.
In the North Korean city of Ryongchon, home to 130 thousand people, an explosion is still burning. 8 thousand homes are damaged or flattened.
North Korea has asked for help from the UN.
The Red Cross is mobilizing.
Chinese medical personnel on the border were told yesterday [...]

The Velveteen Rabbi has posted on the Bloggercon religion on the internet session.
Jeff Sharlett of The Revealer asked some thought-provoking questions that appear to get lost in weighty answers.
Most of us will never get near Harvard.
Nor will we dialogue with heavy hitters. Would we want to if they talk this way?
These participants are the [...]

Chinese doctors on the border of North Korea have been told to prepare for thousands of casualities.
Thousands.
And North Korea hasn’t admitted there has been a collision yet.
They didn’t count on cell phones and debris landing 19 kilometres across the border into China. Some of that debris could well be body parts.
I was watching the news [...]

This is my first blog meme found via Superblessed’s Blog of the Year - What in Tarnation?!?!?
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence as a comment on my blog.
5. Post the text of the sentence on your own blog, along with [...]

I almost can’t imagine this.
Can you?
Two trains pulling cars loaded with gas and gasoline collided in North Korea today, about 30 miles from the border.
3 thousand Koreans, and Chinese are reported killed and injured.
All international phone lines in North Korea have been cut off to ‘prevent’ the news from spreading.
The media in North Korea isn’t [...]

The Post-Modern Pilgrim celebrates 32 years of married life today, for which I’m sure you’ll join me in offering heartiest congratulations. Very helpfully, he shares some rules for those wishing to achieve a similarly blessed state and I can’t help but add an Amen. Here are the first 3 pearls of his wisdom:
1> Get Old
2> [...]

I hardly like to raise this here. It doesn’t seem polite, somehow. But my own blog is still broke and I have to write this somewhere!
Blogs4God put me on to The Prayerbook Society News who have been taking issue with criticism of Mel Gibson’s celluloid theology
Those critics of the Passion — especially those self-identified as [...]

Wanderings of a Post-modern Pilgrim bounced a post off a Jordon Cooper post that kind of stunned me. I thought it was just me.
Jordon reads a lot.
And he posts what he reads.
The guy is a veritable library.
He tosses it out, and some of us pick it up and look at it.
And Barry ran with something [...]