Indonesian Earthquake-Please Give

I got the following information in an email from Mercy Corps, a relief and development agency I trust, founded by a Christian Dan O’Neill and supported by singer John Michael Talbot. Please give.
Help Speed Relief to Earthquake Survivors
Thousands of survivors from Saturday’s earthquake in Indonesia are injured, homeless and grieving for lives lost. Mercy Corps [...]

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Get a Charge-The Current

Just a quick post from work to let you all know about a cool online radio station I am listening to just now. My friend Annette recommended it as a good source to find new “Finds” in Indie music and to hear what’s new from old favorites. And, in my brief listening, I have already [...]

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MS-150 Bicycle Tour

For the past three years I have been riding a 150 mile charity ride to raise funds Multiple Sclerosis research.
After last year’s tour, I put down my bike and did not pick it up again for nearly four months. Not a good and balanced strategy for staying in shape. Mind you, intially, part of the [...]

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“Your Mother is a Whore!”

Here is a prescient and humorous point from a review of Da Da Vinci Code by Steven D. Greydanus, who is a Christian (and I believe Catholic) film reviewer. The entire review is worth reading.
Is it possible to put all this aside and just enjoy the story as a thriller, an enjoyable yarn? I honestly [...]

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Sitting on the Sidelines, but Definitely on a Specific Team

I am sorry to be sitting on the sidelines on this one, not having read the book, nor planning on seeing the movie (at least not on opening weekend).
Thankfully there are some faithful, thoughtful Christians not sitting on the sidelines.
Jeffrey Overstreet has been blogging with passion and comprehensiveness on this issue for some months, and [...]

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SSSSSSSSSSSS…..Mmmm, Fresh Bacon!

Good stuff.

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Mother’s Day Letter

Dear Mom,
Hi! Well, its been a while since I talked to you. I know I am not really not now either, but that is not important. It’s been almost 11 years now and sometimes I feel I haven’t grown a day since you’ve been gone. Of course I have, really.
Physically, that Bodenbach body that you [...]

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Mother’s Day IV-Quotes and Quips

My mother grew up a straight-laced, Baptist girl (who didn’t smoke and didn’t chew and didn’t go with boys that do) but ended life a Presbyterian, who was wont to take her family to Luthern church for Christmas Eve service (though she still wasn’t much for smoking or chewing). Once, upon looking into the student [...]

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Mother’s Day III-Excerpts from an Essay

*My world began in a dusty corner of Pakistan in the relative cool of the winter. My childhood was normal, I suppose, if that statement can ever be made without being made an oxymoron in light of the varied and creative exploits of children. But it had its share of joys and fears and tears, [...]

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Mother’s Day II

It was somewhere along Highway 67 in the middle of rural, western Illinois on the way to deputation. It was just my mother and me in our 1976 yellow-green Ford Maverick. She had just learned to drive a few years earlier in her late forties.
Deputation was that traveling road show that career missionaries were compelled [...]

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