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We had a phenomenal time at our church’s Family Camp, held at the Old Oak Ranch in Sonora, CA. About 250 people registered, plus a number of families who came on Saturday and Sunday.
It’s hard to quantify things in numbers. Even the eight baptisms we had, [...]
Entries from May 2007
May 29, 2007
Back to reality — but first, the news
May 24, 2007
Stockton Record: Eric Hu posted on “America’s Most Wanted” Web site
Eric Hu, a fugitive who is wanted on charges of attempted murder, has made the big time. His mug has been reported on the “America’s Most Wanted” Web site, according to a Stockton Record report published Wednesday.
I first blogged about Hu on April 27, following a wild manhunt that started in my neighborhood. We live [...]
May 24, 2007
Speaking of Faith: the Soul of War
NPR’s Krista Tippett had an excellent rebroadcast highlighting the efforts of Army Chaplain (Maj.) John Morris to reintegrate National Guard soldiers into civilian life after the pressures of war in Iraq. Krista’s nationally syndicated program, Speaking of Faith “probes the myriad ways in which religious impulses inform every aspect of life and culture, nationally and [...]
May 24, 2007
Protected: Pew Forum: Muslim Americans: Middle Class and Mostly Mainstream
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
May 23, 2007
Parthenogene-WHA?? Today in Science
CNN posted an interesting news item about a female hammerhead shark who fertilized its own egg without sperm from males, according to a joint Northern Ireland-US research published in the Royal Society’s peer-reviewed Biology Letter journal.
The baby was killed within hours of its birth by a stingray in the same tank. Analysis of its DNA [...]
May 21, 2007
The short and long good-bye
I know that my Redeemer lives,
and that in the end he will stand upon the earth.
26 And after my skin has been destroyed,
yet in my flesh I will see God;
27 I myself will see him
with my own eyes—I, and not another.
How my heart yearns within me!
Job 19:25-27 NIV
Friday found me in Salinas, [...]
May 17, 2007
So you know your career is tanked when …
… your company has been bought out by a capital management company named Cerberus.
The news cycle is itself a funny animal. When the news of the Chrysler acquisition first made the wire Tuesday, no one seemed to care about the name of this company. Then the following day, as if on cue, all of the [...]
May 16, 2007
A lid for every pot
The missus and I turned down an invitation to spend Mother’s Day with friends from church, their parents and in-laws. We would have gone but we both have an unwritten rule about spending family holidays with nonfamily.
And our friends’ relatives truly would not have cared. They are genuinely kind and come from good Mexican stock, [...]
May 13, 2007
My guilty pleasure: Ted DeKker
This weekend I zoned out and read Three, a 404-page thriller by Christian author Ted DeKker this weekend. It’s real page-turner — or more accurately an easy, easy read. I don’t spend all of my time reading Christian fiction. I spent most of my 20s and early 30s reading Bukowski, Henry Miller, Proust. I had [...]
