Rowland Croucher
Blonde and the Chimps
A blonde lady motorist was about two hours from San Diego when she was flagged down by a man whose truck had broken down. The man walked up to the car and asked, “Are you going to San Diego?” “Sure,” answered the blonde, “do you need a lift?” “Not for me. I’ll be spending the […]
TV’s Leap of Faith
*Sightings* 10/18/07 — Mark I. Pinsky Imagine the Hollywood pitch meeting: Producers try to convince cable television executives to green light a new series about a burned out Oklahoma City homicide detective named Grace. She smokes, drinks, swears, looks for love in all the wrong places, and is played by Holly Hunter. So far, so […]
Evangelicals and Politics
************************************************* SojoMail a weekly email-zine of spirituality, politics, and culture http://go.sojo.net/ct/_dLWub11vSz8/ ************************************************* ================================================= QUOTE OF THE WEEK ================================================= I am not ready to announce yet – even though it’s clear that the voters are desperate for a white, male, middle-aged, Jesus-trumpeting alternative. – Stephen Colbert, in a guest column in Sunday’s New York Times. Colbert […]
Islamic scholars seek ‘common ground’ with Christian leaders
More than 130 Muslim scholars have said in a letter to Christian leaders, including Pope Benedict XVI and the head of the World Council of Churches, the Rev. Samuel Kobia, that world peace depends on cooperation between Christianity and Islam. “Our common future is at stake. The very survival of the world itself is perhaps […]
Irresistible Revolution (Shane Claiborne)
(Zondervan, 2006). Shane Claiborne looks, speaks, and dresses like an Old Testament prophet (or John the Baptist). And he makes the same sort of crazy sense. (But he’s had a better formal education than most of them). He’s a young (my guess: 30s) idealistic American, who spent time with Mother Teresa’s helpers in India, and […]
Top Urban Ministry Blogs
by Thomas Scarborough The name Ray Bakke is synonymous with urban ministry. “I want to tell stories”, he says, because it is stories which “helped revolutionize my theology of the city” (Bakke 1997:11). Many such stories, today, are told in urban ministry blogs (web logs). With this in mind, the purpose of this article is […]
Atlas Shrugged
*Sightings* 10/15/07 *Atlas Shrugged* at Fifty — Martin E. Marty W. C. Fields, as previously noted in *Sightings*, once announced that he’d spent years studying the Bible, looking for a loophole. For fifty years Christian and other leaders have been reading the Bible looking for one line in it that might justify the popular philosophy […]
Prof talk
Two old professors sitting on hotel balcony. One says to the other ‘Have you read Marx?’ The other replies ‘Yes, I think its the wicker chairs.’
Tony Blair wisdom
Tony Blair wisdom: “Profound problems require profound remedies” “There will often be as much interpretation of what a politician is saying, as there is coverage of them actually saying it,” “Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children […]
Redhead
THE REDHEAD A man is dining in a fancy restaurant and there is a gorgeous redhead sitting at the next table. He has been checking her out since he sat down, but lacks the nerve to talk with her. Suddenly she sneezes, and her glass eye comes flying out of its socket toward the man. […]
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