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*Collapsed Episcopal Cathedral in Port-au-Prince - The UmBlog Feb 1, 2010, 8:03 pm
I've been wondering about this beautiful Episcopal Cathedral we parked at in Port-au-Prince when I was there last February. I ... more
*book report: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller - The UmBlog Jan 28, 2010, 9:03 am
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life is Donald Miller's latest exploration of the soul a ... more
Prayer request for Haiti - The UmBlog Jan 26, 2010, 10:03 pm
I just got word that American Airlines has canceled flights to Haiti for the next couple weeks, which means our team's ticket ... more
*Heading down to Haiti - The UmBlog Jan 25, 2010, 6:03 pm
The day of my 40th birthday this weekend, I got a ticket and a spot on a relief team to Haiti with Mission E4. They have a fe ... more
*Another Haiti ministry - Floresta - The UmBlog Jan 22, 2010, 8:03 am
I found out about Floresta from the occasional e-mail I get from To the Source. Here is a highlight from the article. Florest ... more
updates from Haiti from the blogs - The UmBlog Jan 21, 2010, 6:27 am
Calvary Chapel Old Bridge sent a team in overland from the Dominican Republic last week. They are in the southwestern coastal ... more
*cinema review: The Book of Eli (2010) - The UmBlog Jan 18, 2010, 3:46 am
My brother and I both have January birthdays. In the past few years it has been our tradition to get together to see a guy mo ... more
any lessons learned from Katrina? - The UmBlog Jan 16, 2010, 12:54 pm
Three and a half years ago I wrote a book report on The Great Deluge by Douglas Brinkley, about the responses of various agen ... more
*Haiti, Pat Robertson and theology - The UmBlog Jan 14, 2010, 3:35 am
In the immediate aftermath of Haiti's earthquake, Pat Robertson the American televangelist reveals that he doesn't read his B ... more
*updates from Haiti after the earthquake - The UmBlog Jan 13, 2010, 5:31 am
I follow a few missionary blogs in Haiti. A few of them have chimed in with personally good reports but despair over the magn ... more
book report: Twilight by Stephanie Meyer - The UmBlog Nov 18, 2009, 6:14 am
What would drive me, strong, brave, intelligent, to read the superficial, thick, vapid teen novel, Twilight by Stephanie Meye ... more
Underground architecture proponent dies - The UmBlog Dec 2, 2009, 5:18 am
From the top of Malcolm Wells's website.Macolm Wells1926-2009With regret, we report the passing away of Malcolm Wells.Malcolm ... more
Lies to reject from Twilight - The UmBlog Dec 2, 2009, 9:59 am
I have to thank Randy Alcorn for this link to a Wired article on the 20 lessons from Twilight. Here are some that resonate wi ... more
Edward Cullen is Tarzan - The UmBlog Dec 26, 2009, 1:32 pm
I'm spending my Christmas break reading some classics. I plundered the classics shelf in the Cover of Tarzan of the Apeslibra ... more
*For those about to abort - The UmBlog Jan 6, 2010, 4:28 am
Please watch one woman's story of her abortion experience from Randy Alcorn's blog.Video link here. Alcorn has links for mor ... more
*Ian Kershaw on Germany and the Fuhrer cult - The UmBlog Jan 5, 2010, 4:32 am
When I started Ian Kershaw's biography of Hitler 6 months ago, I expected to be done by now. I Cover of Hitlerhave a ways to ... more
*book report: Patton, Montgomery, Rommel by Terry Brighton - The UmBlog Jan 4, 2010, 1:36 am
Terry Brighton's Patton, Montgomery, Rommel: Masters of War, 2008, read much faster than I Cover via Amazonthought I'd need f ... more
*Family Bible Reading Plan for 2010 - The UmBlog Jan 3, 2010, 7:52 am
As a family, we finished reading together the New Testament. Now I want to get them through the Old Testament in year. I don' ... more
*Good News for 2010 - The UmBlog Jan 2, 2010, 7:44 am
The good news for every year starts with Jesus.As Paul writes to Titus, his protege in Crete.3 Once we, too, were foolish and ... more
*book report: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck - The UmBlog Dec 31, 2009, 3:10 am
I fell in love with Pearl Buck's world because of her magnificent writing from the very beginning. For example, this paragrap ... more
*cinema review: Avatar (2009) - The UmBlog Dec 30, 2009, 5:11 am
The remake of Battle for Terra was pretty good. Here is the opening of my review of Battle for Terra this past May, I have a ... more
*Merry Christmas - Gospel of John, chapter 1 - The UmBlog Dec 25, 2009, 4:28 pm
John 1The Prologue to the Gospel1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was fully God. 1:2 ... more
*LDS hymn, "Praise the Man", Yikes! - The UmBlog Dec 24, 2009, 3:21 am
The melody is nice, the words are worshipful but of Joseph Smith not Jesus Christ. (see video at http://www.youtube.com/watch ... more
*8 Ways to Thrive (not die) with Family - The UmBlog Dec 23, 2009, 3:38 am
This is from Tommy Nelson's ministry newsletter The Hub, formerly called Song of Solomon. His sermon series on the Song of So ... more
*non-sequiter theology of sex - The UmBlog Dec 22, 2009, 5:08 am
The church takes sex seriously, and has for a long time. The New Testament, from jesus to Paul and Peter and John together ex ... more
*book report: The Liturgical Year by Joan Chittister - The UmBlog Dec 21, 2009, 8:15 am
I received for review from Thomas Nelson publishers the first book in a new series called the Ancient Practices Series called ... more
*Commenting at...Faith autopsy again - The UmBlog Dec 11, 2009, 5:12 am
In response to Ben's letter to Jesus.Dude You are whining. Stop it. Grow up. Man up. You made your bed, now you are laying in ... more
*Justice for American Indian nations - The UmBlog Dec 9, 2009, 4:32 am
One thing I like about the Obama administration is his attempts to dealjustly with American Indian tribes. One example of thi ... more
*How not to respond to homosexuals. Uganda's genocidal bill - The UmBlog Dec 5, 2009, 1:36 am
If Ugandans consider their country but believe gays are enemies, than Christ tells them to love their enemies and pray for th ... more
*What's the big deal with "sexual morality" and the church? - The UmBlog Dec 4, 2009, 4:11 am
1 Corinthians 6 sums up directly, what the entire Bible is pointing towards for the New covenant believer in Jesus, in regard ... more
*John Granger on Twilight - The UmBlog Dec 3, 2009, 10:48 am
I'm happy to report that John Granger, who opened my eyes to the Christian symbolism of Harry Potter, has written a review of ... more
*Review: A Weekend to Remember by Family Life - The UmBlog Nov 11, 2009, 8:17 am
"Love like you mean it" is the slogan for Family Life's weekend marriage seminar called A Weekend to Remember, WtR. Every yea ... more
*Sermon on Mark 9: 30-50 - The UmBlog Sep 5, 2009, 3:56 pm
Here is the rest of my sermon notes on Mark 9. The first half is here.After climbing a mountain and being affirmed by God the ... more
*bike review: Actionbent JS2-US, for sale - The UmBlog May 4, 2009, 4:17 am
Update May 2009. This baby needs a tuneup, cables and tires, and I bought something new. If you are interested in buying this ... more
*Obama's pro-life buddies slip sliding away - The UmBlog Apr 21, 2009, 4:35 pm
What do you call someone who can find the silver lining in any morally repugnant policy? Moral Accountability uses the slur d ... more
book report: The Cay by Theodore Taylor - The UmBlog Jan 8, 2009, 3:36 am
My wife picked out an excellent children's book on CD for our drive to Lake George, The Cay by Theodore Taylor. It's set in W ... more
*Facts about abortion coercion - The UmBlog Nov 28, 2008, 4:53 am
It's Thanksgiving. Be thankful your mom kept you alive during your gestation. Facts from the unChoice; unwanted, unsafe, unf ... more
*Acceptable Honor Killing in America - Abortion - The UmBlog Nov 8, 2008, 4:04 am
Last night I engaged an Obama/abortion post by a reformed black pastor at the Blaque Tulip, which I've read for a long time, ... more
*Vote Yes for Question #1 in Ct. and Prop #8 in Ca. - The UmBlog Nov 2, 2008, 1:39 pm
As usual, I'm copying over a comment I left on a friend's blog and expanding it a bit here. He lives in California, is a Chri ... more
*book report: Bitterly Divided (4) by David Williams - The UmBlog Oct 27, 2008, 4:20 am
In my penultimate installment of this book report on David Williams' Bitterly Divided , about the rebellions in the rebelliou ... more
*book report: Bitterly Divided (2) by David Williams - The UmBlog Oct 25, 2008, 3:28 am
Proclamations of secession were not roundly well-received in the Southern slave holding states, as noted by David Williams in ... more
*for those who are thinking of not voting pro-life - The UmBlog Oct 22, 2008, 6:55 am
Gerard Bradley addresses, briefly, three common reasons my brothers and sisters look past their pro-choice candidate's positi ... more
*Democrats for Life vs. Obama - The UmBlog Oct 14, 2008, 12:01 pm
Democrats for Life of America are trying to change the party from the inside. This is well and good. One of their attempts is ... more
*book report: Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War - The UmBlog Sep 20, 2008, 5:38 pm
What a well written and informative history. I immensely enjoyed Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathani ... more
*keeping your Palin rumors straight - The UmBlog Sep 7, 2008, 3:37 pm
Smears or rumors about Sarah Palin? You can find them listed and cleared up here.
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*Abortion for the greater good? - The UmBlog Sep 6, 2008, 7:50 am
Palin's VP'dom has brought out the homesty of pro-choice advocates to the mainstream. Another case in point is this Slate col ... more
*Palin's unusual choice to bear Trig - The UmBlog Sep 6, 2008, 7:04 am
Salon writer and doctor Rahul K. Parikh writes in support of the pro-choice politic about Trig Palin and Sarah's choice to no ... more
*Obama wants to reduce unwanted pregnancies - The UmBlog Aug 29, 2008, 4:49 am
Lat night as he closed the DNC in Denver Obama said, "We may not agree on abortion, but surely we can agree on reducing the n ... more
*Political parties and Scripture - The UmBlog Aug 29, 2008, 4:57 am
Food for thought for political solutions to save our country from the Jewish prophet Jeremiah. 7:5 For if you thoroughly a ... more
*the optimism of pro-life Democrats - The UmBlog Aug 28, 2008, 7:28 am
M.Z. Hemingway in NRO notes the lack of reasons to be optimistic as a pro-life DemocratRev. Tony Campolo, an evangelical memb ... more
