Comic Maestro and Crohn’s sufferer Mark Millar is organizing a weekly auction to raise money for a puported Crohn’s disease vaccine. The money is to put the vaccine through human trials in the UK. I’d assume US trials won’t be far behind.
A follow up to “Calling the question“: There have been a couple of comments about this line: To state it baldly: we [UUs] do not have the luxury of doing things that do not transform lives (or lead to transformed lives). I thought I’d try to fill that out a little.
So it’s time for Making Chutney to jump in on the controversy surrounding Rev. Peacebang’s recent post, “Having Opinions.” Better late than never, eh? To summarize her critique of UUism, which grows ever more precise: The Eternal Sharing of Opinions About Who We Areâ„¢.1 A potential turn off to new folks. Boring. And offers nothing […]
Holyoffice offers a glossary of Christian terms to help clear up confusion. He helpfully defines the Emerging Church, for example, as “churches attended exclusively by white people in their 20s and 30s who have at least one tattoo or body piercing. Their distinguishing characteristics are a refreshing, ‘up to date’ interpretation of Christianity, and a […]
As promised, a response to Tim Boucher’s “Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory” (in three parts): Boucher is looking for a new gnosticism. I’ve always found gnosticism bewildering, if metaphysically ambitious. It has its own peculiar beauty, but as I studied it in a mystical theology class in college, I couldn’t help but think that gnosis and […]
Are there such things? Fonts that, say, 75% of users have? Or 66%? The current list of web safe fonts hasn’t grown for years. What about fonts like Arial Narrow or Optima? Any stats out there?