Dead evangelical leader #1: Jerry Falwell. Dead evangelical leader #2: D. James Kennedy. Who will be next?
The easy money is on Pat Robertson. I’m gonna go out on a limb here though and say Paul and Jan Crouch in a plane crash. You could even call it an “evangelism explosion.”
Thank you. I’ll be here all week.
(Three of you, tops, will get the connection of that to Kennedy. Or should I say, “If you died tonight, do you know if you’d go to heaven or hell?” Only fifty-eight flashcards to go!)
Sure, subscribing to RSS feeds is simple enough. Maybe that’s why I like to make it complicated.
Step 1: Subscribe to the RSS feed in Google Reader.
Step 2: File all the feeds away into folders.
Step 3: Publish each of the folders as its own uber-feed. (Under “manage subscriptions.”)
Step 4: Subscribe to each of those uber-feeds in Netvibes, and set them each to open on the original site.
Step 5: Fun!1
Why? This weekend while the wife was away,2 I pared down my 225 RSS subscriptions to 175.3 That’s still too much to keep up with.
So I can go to Netvibes now and view the seven most recent posts in each category. Google Reader lets me look at it by category, but it’s nice to have it all there on one screen without a rolling list of hundreds of posts.
I remember seeing links to this about a month back never took the time to watch. It’s a holiday weekend now, so here’ the whole hour-and-a-half debate.
Today is Blog Day! And there was much rejoicing.
The idea is to find five blogs off your beaten track. That was too hard—I like that well beaten track. So here are some blogs I either haven’t linked to before or haven’t linked to in a long while.
1. Internet Monk. Dispatches from the post-evangelical wilderness. (Start here).
2. The Parent’s View. Everything for back to school and beyond. (My wife is a co-author.)
3. Wood S Lot. I’ve linked to many times before, but it’s been years. Still no RSS feed, dammit. Cultural studies geeks are advised to take deep breaths before visiting.
4. An Unfinished Soul. Jehovah’s Witness turned Christian turned pagan turned Gnostic turned…
5. Forbidden Gospels Blog. Don’t you want to read them now? Every single one?
Peacebang asked some great questions about ministering to single folk a few days back. I’ve been chewing on it since.
Growing up evangelical, I saw a lot of singles ministries come and go. Many, maybe most, fell into the traps that Peacebang lays out so well, but I don’t think they’re so different that we UUs can’t learn from their foibles. So, looking back at them, I want to add a couple of wrinkles to the discussion. Maybe you can help me iron them out.
The first wrinkle has to do with size. Click to continue reading “Challenges of singles ministries”
You probably already know about the Holy Land Experience, an evangelical theme park in Orlando. Looks like it might get some competition.
A $150 million theme park called Bible Park USA is being planned for Rutherford County, Tennessee, outside of Nashville. Roughly the same size as Dollywood, the theme park is being welcomed by Chamber of Commerce types, but local residents aren’t so sure.
