I've had quite a few weeks of essays and seminar leading, and other school crap, etc. Today I finished my Essay on Obama and Hillary with less than 40 minutes to spare. It was cutting it close, but now I can rest a little. This morning I woke up and my first thought was 'today is going to suck'. I then sat there thinking for a while. Why would I choose to live if today is going … [Read more...]
Jones-in' it for some WoW again…
Last week in American history seminar a girl next to me started talking about how she was going to play World of Warcraft as soon as she got home and how she was having a LAN with her girlfriends. I felt like I had landed in some gamer's fantasy (girls actually playing WoW - "dry land is not a myth!"). Anyway I proceeded to tell her how long I'd been clean (From world of … [Read more...]
Courageous Leadership Award
Is your church involved in the fight against AIDS? Or do you know of a church that is doing outstanding AIDS work? If so, we have something we would like you to do… The Courageous Leadership Award was created to honor churches doing exceptional work fighting the AIDS pandemic. It is not about handing out awards for the sake of lifting up a church or a leader. It is about … [Read more...]
Integrity and St. Thomas More – A Man For All Seasons
After finishing an essay last night, I picked up a book my mom gave me to read. It was a play by Robert Bolt called "A Man For All Seasons" and tells the story of Sir/St. Thomas More, Henry VIII's Lord Chancellor who remained a devout Catholic and refused to take the Act of Supremacy (http://www.britainexpress.com/History/tudor/supremacy-henry-text.htm). The oath means … [Read more...]
American History and Christianity
I got in a fight with someone about whether or not America's founders were Christian, in the 3 courses I've had on American History, all my professors have said that the founders were either Deists, Atheists, Agnostics or Unitarians. But apparently in the American South they still teach that they were Christians....kind of like the Ku Klux Klan were the heroes in post civil-war … [Read more...]