Asides

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I feel as though I’ve shared this already, but it popped up as unread in my RSS read­er and it’s worth shar­ing again. Yikes.

You com­mit three felonies a day

In a book called Three Felonies A Day, Boston civ­il rights lawyer Har­vey Sil­ver­glate says that every­one in the US com­mits felonies

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This brief arti­cle is full of sur­pris­ing sta­tis­tics, includ­ing an appar­ent con­trast between how church­go­ing LGBT adults view most denom­i­na­tions (most think of the church as a whole as unfriend­ly to them) vs how they view their per­son­al con­gre­ga­tion­al expe­ri­ence (only 6% feel their con­gre­ga­tion is unfriend­ly to them). Am I read­ing that cor­rect­ly? Because that’s a huge con­trast.

More Than 4 in 10 LGBT Adults Iden­ti­fy as Chris­tians

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I gen­er­al­ly like this sort of approach, although I don’t think it works as well when com­par­ing poet­ry to prose. I think the Psalms still have pride of place when mea­sured in terms of thoughts.

What Is the Longest Book in the Bible?

Hint: it’s not the Psalms.

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This is a won­der­ful inter­view. There are so many great lines. My favorite may be:

Q: How are the sharks cog­nizant enough to keep bit­ing peo­ple while they’re fly­ing through the air?

A: If you were a shark and you found your­self fly­ing through the air, wouldn’t you keep bit­ing? I think you’d be pret­ty pissed about being plucked out of your nice famil­iar ocean where you’re king of the preda­tors, and you’d prob­a­bly take it out on who­ev­er got in your way. Hon­est­ly, I don’t under­stand why peo­ple are so per­plexed by this con­cept. The log­ic is unde­ni­able.

Google for the trail­er.

We asked the writer of Shark­na­do some very seri­ous ques­tions

Tonight, Syfy debuts the great­est shark dis­as­ter epic since Shark­to­pus. It’s called Shark­na­do. And yeah, it’s about a tor­na­do — full of sharks. Thun­der Levin wrote the script, and we caught up with him to ask some philo­soph­i­cal ques­tions about this impor­tant film that forces us to ques­tion the very nature of real­i­ty itself.
io9: Is there any sci­en­tif­ic basis, how­ev­er ten­u­ous, for shark­na­do?
Thun­der Levin: Yes. There are numer­ous con­firmed repor…

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Yes, please.

S’moresi­cles are fun sum­mer treat that kids can make

InMenlo.com — Dai­ly News and Fea­tures about Men­lo Park and Ather­ton Cal­i­for­nia

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I think pan­el three is my favorite. Talk about a slap with the cold fish of truth.

Basic Instruc­tions — Basic Instruc­tions — How to Make a Dif­fi­cult Deci­sion

In hon­or of the 4th of July, this week’s Ask­ing the Wrong Guy , is a spe­cial all UK edi­tion, b…

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Great thoughts by my friend Ben. My favorite bit, “Rain­bows aren’t tech­ni­cal­ly illu­sions. They are exact­ly what they appear to be, its just that you’re see­ing dif­fer­ent images from many micro­scop­ic objects to form the com­plete pic­ture.  That’s why rain­bows are so amaz­ing!  They have noth­ing to hide because they are them­selves a rev­e­la­tion!  They are proof that every beam of sun­light is made up of all the col­ors you can imag­ine, but its only when refract­ed through a cloud of tiny water drops that those col­ors split out so you can see them.”

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For my fel­low min­is­ters — words to con­sid­er by Assem­blies of God super­in­ten­dent George Wood.

The Con­gre­ga­tion­al Tithe

When I served as pas­tor at New­port-Mesa, God direct­ed us to pri­or­i­tize mis­sions giv­ing. Sev­er­al years after my $30,000 goal, I began feel­ing that the church ought to do cor­po­rate­ly what we ask peop…