I got a metaphorical sucker punch from a friend today and I’m not handling it well at all.
This is not a good way to start a long weekend. Awhile ago I made plans with a friend who was going to be in my area to get together.
No big deal, I thought I gave all the appropriate [...]

There are bloggers that think the only way another blogger can be authentic is to use their real name.
The fact that anyone can make up a ‘real name’ as opposed to an obvious nom de plume seems to illude these two.
Patrick Ross could be Ross Patrick. Or Patricia Ross. Or Rosa Patrick.
How does Patrick Ross really know Werner [...]

Ethics Daily has a good piece up on the latest political scandal in the US and about why putting one’s eggs of faith into one political basket get’s depressing pretty quickly.
I haven’t been able to read The Evangelical Outpost since installing updated virus/firewall software.  The McAfee Site Advisor (where ever it is in the program) [...]

uuworld.org 
Participation will likely increase across the board, because on the Internet even the smallest participation has an effect. When you talk back to your television no one hears. But when you comment on a blog, people respond. Your questions get answered—maybe by the individual blogger, but more likely by the larger commenting community. You are [...]

Jared Wilson of The Thinklings blog, has a great rant up at his blog, The Gospel-Driven Church. He is  fed up with the gospel (good news) being hi-jacked by conumserism us/them marketing. These videos set him off, and his post shows the heart of one who cares about mature, growing Christians knowing how wide, how deep, [...]

Craig Chandler has announced he running for the Conservative Party in Alberta. He wants to be the MLA for Calgary Egmont.  This is the picture on his campaign site. It saved for upload with the caption ‘wanna fight.’

He wants people to know he has a solid business foundation in Alberta and that he is a proud supporter of Focus [...]

South Korean negotiators are saying they have reached an agreement to release 19 South Korean missionaries who were kidnapped by Taliban in Afghanistan on July 19th.
The announcement came from the South Korean president’s office.
Korea and Taliban officials met face to face yesterday in the town of Ghazni, south of Kabul.  There were no Afghan government [...]

Meet Sharon Smith – currently mayor of Houston B.C. and soon to be “liaison to the federal government” for the riding of Skeena-Bulkley Valley. Now I know what you are thinking: didn’t the people of that riding elect their own liaison to the federal government, traditionally known for lo these past 140 years as a [...]