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Safely accurate self-assessment: I’m somewhere between Paris Hilton and Socrates.

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Christian means nothing.

To refer to peregrinating Celtic monks and fundamentalist lobbyists, Origen and Oral Roberts, the Desert Fathers and Tim LaHaye, Dante and Tammy Faye, St. Francis and the TV “Prosperity Gospel” hucksters, Lady Julian of Norwich and Jimmy Swaggart, John of the Cross and George W. Bush, all as “Christian” stretches the word so thin its meaning vanishes. The term “carbon-based life-form” is as informative.

David James Duncan, God Laughs & Plays, 49

Will Ferrell on the movie industry and explosions

What would happen to your house over 500 humanless years?

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Update:

Jim Griffioen documents this happening to some houses in Detroit.

(Thanks, Kelly)

Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality

This unique and important book by Wesley Hill, one of my closest friends, will be available in September.

Learn more about this book or pre-order it.

How many people has Jack Bauer killed?

266 on screen and several more are implied but not shown.

That’s an average of one every 44 minutes.

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The skyrails of yesterday’s tomorrow

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