This is becoming pretty fun (even though some of the timing is a bit dodgy at this point)!…

Sometimes I really love my church. Tonight we had a baby dedication and baptismal service. There were nearly 30 babies and 45 new converts. Where I’m from, baptism is a very quiet occasion. Out here, people get a little rowdy,…

It is with great dismay that I observe the rise of modern-day anti-scientists who seem determined to push our society back into the Dark Ages. Distressingly, these attacks against knowledge are often cloaked in the robes of religion.
Take, for example, the case of Robert Sungenis. This guy is a modern-day geocentrist and author of a [...]

Ok, granted, I’ve been out of the loop for qutie a while. Part of this was due to the massive amount of prep work that was going into the Nottingham conference presentation. The run up to that combined with regular work at the cafe kept me fairly busy…

“The key to understanding and critiquing so much of human culture is total depravity.” So if you like watching Simon tear into Buzz from Omaha after he just butchered Aerosmith, read on….

Yesterday Rick Jensen, music pastor at Greenlake Presbyterian Church, told me that they sang the Drinking Song for a service on Sunday, and it “brought down the house.” He’s going to try to get a me a recording. :-)…

Grandpa and Grandma Ellis and Auntie Esther have arrived. Ariana has loved meeting them. I would write more but these pictures will have to speak for themselves today. I have to run. So, here they are….

Coffee in my laptop again… This time it just messed up the few keys around (and including) the Enter key. Thankfully there was no data loss. God in His grace allowed me to switch to Linux after the last coffee…

ABC News reports in

“McCain Woos the Right, Makes Peace With Falwell”

that Sen. John McCain will be the graduation speaker at Liberty University on May 13.

We shall call him John R. John R. lived two doors from me my sophomore year in college. He was a little odd, and had bad breath, but I went out with his sister a couple of times, so I was always nice to him. One day we were talking about our lack of trouble [...]