This one time in El Salvador…...

Have you ever woken up to the sound of automatic guns firing off? (All my homies from the ghetto say “Ay!”) That’s really not a common occurrence in my life, and I’m very thankful for that. But this has happened to me once before (unfortunately I’ve awoken to the sound of ‘regular’ guns firing off a few more times). I’m reminded of this incident on this day that we vote here in the USA. The year was 1994. Were you alive then? I sure was. :0) I was in post-civil war San Salvador. The utter chaos of a 12 year war had...

Bags for ZaZa...

Some friends at my church are currently in the process of adopting a little girl from Colombia. Their sister is making really cool bags to help raise the funds for the expenses of adoption. If you know of any pre-teen, teen-aged, or heck any woman that likes funky bags, take a look at the Bags For ZaZa site! Splendid. The URL is:...

The God Debate...

At the Summit: On a cloudy California day, the atheist Sam Harris sat down with the Christian pastor Rick Warren to hash out Life’s Biggest Question—Is God real? A NEWSWEEK exclusive. “April 9, 2007 issue – Rick Warren is as big as a bear, with a booming voice and easygoing charm. Sam Harris is compact, reserved and, despite the polemical tone of his books, friendly and mild. Warren, one of the best-known pastors in the world, started Saddleback in 1980; now 25,000 people attend the church each Sunday. Harris is softer-spoken; paragraphs pour out of...

Rwanda Reminiscings...

13 years ago, the Rwanda genocide began, and the world stood by as 800,000 people were slaughtered over 100 days. PBS has a video series on their Frontline website documenting the details of this horrible modern-day genocide. Athough this is a difficult topic to digest for many people, I know that this is only one of many incidences that we cannot ignore, or forget. Take a look at the site, and then I encourage you to pray and see how we can be part of the answer for our world....

Is social media the enemy?...

Below is the beginning of PBS blogger Andy Carvin’s thoughts on “Generation Me,” and a subsequent link to read the rest of his post. He got the idea for his article based on an Associated Press investigation done using the Narcissistic Personality Inventory on college students. One of the researchers, Professor Jean Twenge of San Diego State University, concluded that, “Current technology fuels the increase in narcissism… By its very name, MySpace encourages attention-seeking, as does YouTube.” Twenge also blamed the “self-esteem...