Archive for November, 2006



What American accent do you have? 
Your Result: North Central

“North Central” is what professional linguists call the Minnesota accent.  If you saw “Fargo” you probably didn’t think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary.  Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot.

The West

The Midland

Boston

The Inland North

The Northeast

The South

Philadelphia

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The other day we received a letter from a lawyer in Amsterdam on behalf of his client, Landmark Education. Landmark Education requests that we immediately remove the link to the video in question because, they allege the documentary violates Landmark copyright by ‘reproducing large portions of its copyrighted work, the Landmark Forum Manual.’ The letter [...]

The Rocky Mountain News has a profile of a minister’s wife - Gayle Haggard, wife of Ted Haggard, former head of a mega church in Colorado and former president of The National Association of Evangelicals.
The 49 year old mother of five has always acquiesced to her husband’s wishes. College roommate, Carol McLeod.
McLeod said they became [...]

Harper, who heads a minority government, is a member of the East Gate Alliance Church, part of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, a denomination with 400,000 members that believes in the literal word of the Bible, faith-healing and the imminent return of Jesus Christ. Women cannot be ordained in his church, homosexuality is a sin [...]

Toys for Tots,  has decided to put the Christ doll back into Christmas, after all.
Reversing a move the Herald and other media outlets reported earlier this week, the charity has agreed to accept 4,000 talking Jesus dolls from a California toymaker.
Toys for Tots, which gives poor kids of all faiths gifts for Christmas and other winter [...]

Spero News has an article up on Rick Warren’s recent four day stop in Syria, the reaction by conservative blog Slice of Laodicia, World Net Daily, Mark Tooley of  The Institute of Religion and Democracy in Front Page Magazine and some bloggers. The article also has Warren’s response.
6.5 to 10 percent of Syria’s 18.6 million population is identified Christian, [...]

Ten years ago a branch of my family who takes in abused and abandoned animals took in this unwanted, uncared for, unloved dog and named him TeddyBear. Teddybear took awhile to realize he was loved and safe, settling in, grateful to be accepted. He was the largest of a parade of dogs and cats, the family Eyore, gentle, [...]

Nominations for the 2006 Weblog Awards are open until November 24, 2006.
10 finalists will be chosen in each category. There are some new categories this year, including a good section for international (none US) blogs.
Best Religion Blog, Best Group Blog, and Best Blog Design have been discontinued.
 



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