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.

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

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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.

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.