These are a few of the things I've recently found interesting, but don't have the time to properly blog on. I don't necessarily like or agree with the links here, I just think they're interesting. And just in case you do, too, enjoy.
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From Christianity.ca Review by Denyse O'Leary:
"Editor Bobby Maddex, working under the Fellowship of St. James, which also produces the ecumenical thinkrag Touchstone, has tossed out the usual dull faith-and-science stuff. He has produced a magazine o
If you're just interested in the top ten lessons, skip ahead.
Yowie, it's been a busy couple of months. Since I went on vacation in early June my life has been very full. I've had a lot of video editing to do, and I've been taking work home to do it on my laptop — since it seems so hard to get anything accomplished at the office. (Is it ironic when your boss agrees that the worst place to do work is at the office?)
Meanwhile, I've been wringing my hands over my blog. I've been too … absorbed in everything else to dredge up the energy to post anything substantive, but over the past couple weeks I've at least made sure to moderate comments and track stats. So, BlogRodent hasn't really fallen off my radar. It's just that I've fallen off the face of the Earth. In fact, I'm waiting for video to finish rendering right now … so with a few minutes on my hands, I thought I'd post a retrospective.
I think milestones are important. I'd been waiting for the one-year anniversary of BlogRodent so I could celebrate it with an anniversary post. Naturally, because I am time-insensitive — my employers would say I'm time-comatose — June 20 passed without comment. I'm about to rectify that.
What happened on this blog on that day one year ago? My first "Hello World" post, nervously titled, "This is easy," and a throw-away mention of the adult Christian education class I was teaching at the time, "Do Heaven and Hell exist?" Frankly, there's nothing to recommend either post for your reading pleasure. But lot has happened since then and I hope I've made some improvement.
Let's talk about what's been good, bad, and what I've learned as a newbie Pentecostal blogger.
After two weekend-long video-editing sessions we finally went live with the new online training course anticipating the Da Vinci Code film opening next week on the 19th. It’s called “Da Vinci Code Conversations,” and it's intended to give viewers a brief, birds-eye-view of the major contentions in Dan Brown's novel and — presumably — the film.
Not having screened the film, everybody is guessing as to how much of the book’s more controversial elements made it into the screenplay, but we’re pretty sure it will involve the major highlights of this course since the plot largely depends on it:
- Emperor Constantine was a lifelong pagan who fabricated Christ’s divinity at the Council of Nicaea in order to further his political ambition.
- Virtually everybody knew Christ was a mere mortal until Constantine cooked up this divinity myth at Nicaea.
- Christ was married to