Yahoo Finance has an interesting article that shows what my dad has said for years: the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer. Actually, Robert Merton coined the term the Matthew principle in 1968 with reference to this phrase. The problem, as I see it, is corporate greed and the individual greed that [...]
I have heard my fair share of racial slurs. Being a white male in a white dominated area, mostly I hear racism and prejudice from the outside. But today I saw first hand how prejudice can be violent – not terribly violent. I work as a taxi driver for an Amish work crew. We were [...]
p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } Eugene Cho has a nice commentary on Glenn Beck’s recent remarks about the communist churches in America. I usually don’t listen to Glenn Beck becuase he gets my blood boiling. Today, I happened to catch a few minutes of Glenn Beck and finally my pressure cooker went off and [...]
Last night I received a call from Pastor Revenel Benoit. Things have taken off suddenly for the various recording projects we were working on. Apparently he has a donor who wants to get things moving musically. Here is what is going on: Aseline – Aseline’s CD is looking to get printed within the next month, [...]
Infant Baptism I don’t know much about this website but I think this is a very thoughtful article about the historicity of infant baptism in the church. Both for and against can be argued from Scripture and church history. Is it possible that we have two paradigms that, although mutually exclusive, represent two legitimate ways [...]
Sarcastic Quotes and Quotes about Sarcasm from Early Christian History Why I love being a Christian. Sarcasm has deep roots in Christianity – think of Erasmus. Think of God – God gives Job quite a tongue lashing for thinking that he understood the ways of God. Anyway, some sarcastic fun…
Patients in ‘vegetative’ state can think and communicate – Telegraph A very profound article that has lots of implications to the issues of life and death in patients in a persistent vegetative state. For me, it reminds me to never assume that a patient cannot hear or understand you. Even when a patient is unresponsive, [...]
Claridon Christian Fellowship is partnering with “Mission: Haiti” from Gloria Dei Church in Davie, FL to provide relief supplies to those affected by the recent earthquake. We are now collecting supplies to send to Florida where they will be loaded into a shipping container and sent to Haiti. Supplies will be collected at Claridon Christian [...]
I have long been frustrated by trying to backup my email in Windows. The files seem buried in hard to reach places. Every time I backup and restore, I seem to loose something. I relied on a lot of various methods to try to secure my data.Now this newly born Ubuntu evangelist has seen the [...]
Well, I had my first unfortunate Ubuntu experience a few days ago. I was cleaning up some junk files using help from some forums. Well, I somehow deleted something important and it froze and eventually wouldn’t boot up. This is nothing new to me. Early in my Windows carrier I did the same thing. Not [...]