In the comments of my last post, Chris and I began talking about the under-utilization (or waste) of church property. This reminded me of a conversation I was recently having with Kathy where I concluded that when I died, I wanted a simple funeral pyre… like the Vikings had.
We were working in the food pantry [...]

In the upcoming election one of the ‘hot topics’ is government sponsored health care. I was recently digging through my archives and discovered this old chestnut which I think is still relevant in regards to that topic.
Homefeeding Children: Threat or Menace?
By Lydia McGrew
June 12, 2002
(Editor’s Note: The following editorial originally appeared in the June 6 [...]

After our awesome time a couple of weeks ago at the Rush concert, Bo and I had a great opportunity to go to yet another great concert last night. A friend at work had tickets to the “Metal Masters” concert which was headlined by Judas Priest and Heaven and Hell (Original members of Black Sabbath [...]

I completely ripped this off from Jeremy Pryor at Eden to Zion. He’s always got good stuff over there.
I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump. I ran over and said: “Stop. Don’t do it.”
“Why shouldn’t I?” he asked.
“Well, there’s so much to [...]