I’ve been angry about the Kelo decision for a while. Stories like this make me even angrier.
Category: Of Random Interest
One Of The Most Ruthless Pranks Ever
Cal Berkeley just took pranking to a whole new level. This is the stuff of legends. And nightmares. Ouch.
Happy Pi Day
Today is 3/14. Geeks go wild.
Ben & Robin Pasley of Enter The Worship Circle now have a blog. They’re among my favorite worship artists.
Solomon and the Black Eyed Peas
People often mock the Song of Songs for having bizarre romantic imagery. Song of Solomon 7:4 is a notorious example: “your nose is like the tower of Lebanon” (to which I always want to add “which means you can think of that zit as more of a banner, if you prefer”).
Stuff like that keeps many from taking the Song of Solomon seriously as a love song. We obsess over the pictures that the song employs and fail to get the point.
And we act as though we’ve never seen such outlandish imagery before. Then without even realizing it we turn the radio on and hear the Commodores belting out “she’s a brick house
.”
In the cultural smackdown between us and the ancient near east, I have to give this round to the ancients. Which would you rather be called? A tower is slender, graceful, and curved. A brick house is short, squat, and angular. Quite frankly, we have no stones to throw.
And it’s that way throughout the Song.
So the next time you hear the Black Eyed Peas inquiring about the junk in your trunk, cut the Song of Solomon some slack and interpret it the way you would interpret any other love song–poetically.
Excerpt From A Letter of Consolation To A Friend
Computer crashes are horrible. It’s as though an old-time preacher was ambushed by an eraser-wielding demon in the night who removed all the notes from the margins of his Bible.
Things Which Interested Glen Last Week
Things I bookmarked last week on del.icio.us.
- Coloring Book — Colorings–this will keep kids entertained for hours
tagged as: games - Celebrity Research Lists — Famous Who Were Once Homeless–Well-known people who were homeless for a period of their lives.
tagged as: sermonic - Center for Applied Christian Ethics MP3s–Audio recordings from impressive people.
tagged as: learning, mp3
Disclaimer: these links are posted automatically using the excellent yawd hack and are merely things that were interesting enough to bookmark for future reference–I may or may not agree with the views expressed by the linked pages. In fact, I may not have even read them yet.
Crunch All You Want, We’ll Make More
I really like the fake church sign in this article from Lark News. Thanks to Church Marketing Sucks for noticing the story.
Dialectic
One of my students (stage name Dialectic) just released a rap album. You can preview it at MySpace. Or as we hip-hoppers like to call it, MySchizzle.
How Not To Be Holy
I just read a great little meditation on holiness called Whack-a-mole and Sin Management in Leadership Journal. When I checked to see if it was online I discovered that the author has a blog.