Socialist Sushi

This is just bizarre: A little reformed gangsta rap. Part of me feels I ought to find this funny, but really I can’t listen all the way through, A for effort, though. (Thanks, Chris)

The cover of September’s Christianity Today, however, is beyond awesome. I seriously need to find this tshirt. Oh, and the article looks interesting, too.

Joshua Sowin posted a rather depressing entry called The Problems of Institutional Giving. In it he discussing why it may be a better idea to give directly to missionaries than to large agencies.

The article he refers to is depressing. I hope the NAMB has truly corrected these issues. Time will tell.

First, two having to do with the trial of a Christian convert:

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And now, one that represents my feelings about the politicization of our pulpits:

Spotted a link to the McPassion. I laughed, I cried.

I’ve gotten rather tired of the commercialization of Christianity. I’m glad to see I’m not the only one.

Heard about this on Air1 news this morning:

A church group is raising money to set up a Ten Commandments monument on the front lawn of the city building, with the blessing of the City Council.

The council voted unanimously to let Lone Oak Wesleyan Church begin raising $12,000 for the granite marker.

Now, this has nothing to do with religion. Why do I say this? Because they did:

Church member Ken de la Bastide, Lapel, insisted the Ten Commandments marker “has nothing to do with religion” and said the Ten Commandments were the basis of modern law.

So I’m not sure what the point is. Why in the world is a church worried about something that has nothing to do with religion? Is this non-religious display going to point people to Christ? No, but it will likely point nonChristians to the ACLU, who called the display “problematic.”

So, I looked up Anderson, Indiana at the U.S. Census Bureau. Here’s the interesting part, to me (from 1999 stats):

So, you’re in an area where the average household makes less than 80% of the state average and the poverty rate is almost 50% higher than the state average, but you’re gonna spend $12K (62% of the per capita income) on… a slab of rock?

I’ve grown very tired of this type of useless, Christ-dishonoring grandstanding.