Blogolalia

Thursday, April 07, 2005

I just wanted to thank our Gathering of the Blogs hostess for her excellent work in putting together another fine Tartan Day in the blogosphere. If you didn’t visit her yesterday, you should rectify that mistake today. She has a great collection of posts about all things Scottish/American.

Thanks, Ith. Well done, lass!

Monday, April 04, 2005

Thinkling Bill has announced his solo blog - Out of the Bloo.

He developed the blogware that he’s using to run this particular blog. Almost makes me wish that I had waited a little longer before spending the money for EE, but I think that the comment spam would have driven me right out of the blogging business before OotB launched.

Welcome back, Bill.

Sunday, April 03, 2005

Me no likey.

Hey, bloggers, you may need to change the clocks in your blogware. You computer will automatically reset it’s clock, but your blogware may not.

In EE, within the control panel you need to go to “My Account” and then click on “Localization Settings” in the left menu. Mark the box for Daylight Savings Time. Otherwise your posts will be an hour off. And then make a note that you’ll need to uncheck the box in the fall.

Friday, April 01, 2005

I can’t take the time to write up my thoughts on the subject at length. However I can point you to two posts that speak to it.

First is my sister’s post from yesterday about the use of secular music at her “seeker” church.

Second is Matt’s mention of an article at Lark News that should make a lot of churches reevaluate how they do business.

Monday, March 28, 2005

Dean has a follow-up post to last week’s post about Jews and Christians and Biblical understanding. I have no comment on what he said (well, I do, but I’m not posting it), just wanted to give the heads up to those of you who read his other post.

Friday, March 25, 2005

Dean posted an essay that still has me scratching my head in wonder. He, a self-proclaimed atheist, is often welcoming of religious thought, which I appreciate. Interestingly, he has a pretty open mind about a lot of things spiritual that leads me to believe that he’s more agnostic than true atheist. An orthodox rabbi friend of his agrees, which led to Dean’s post in the first place.

In a nutshell he challenges Christians to understand that Jews think we’re heretical (that’s no surprise to this Christian) and that we have an incorrect understanding of the Old Testament. I happen to think that Jews have in incomplete understanding of the Old Testament.

ADDED LATER: For the Christian, the OT all points to The Christ. Our interpretation of Scripture is all colored by the fact that we believe that Jesus is the promised Messiah. We believe that every part of the Old Covenant/Testament was put into place as a pointer to the promised Messiah. Since we believe that Jesus is that promised Messiah, we look on that covenant and the tradition as having been completed. As Dean said, Jesus said that he came to fulfill the Law. We Christians believe that his coming did, in fact, fulfill the Old Covenant and ushered in the New Covenant. So sure, I admit that Jews will find my faith and interpretation of Scripture to be heretical - as they found Jesus to be. It’s why he was crucified by the Romans at the behest of the Sanhedrin, no?

His addendum to the end of the essay is mind-boggling, too.

Recently added to my Daily Reads list is Ragamuffin Ramblings. Steve’s post today so closely mirrors my own thoughts every Easter season. No excerpting - you have to go read the whole thing.

Thursday, March 24, 2005

In case you missed it, my sister was interviewed by CNN for a piece that they did about mommy bloggers. The piece ran last Friday night. She got word today that CNN plans to rerun the piece several times this weekend. Details here.

Saturday, March 19, 2005

If you’re wondering which you are, see here.

Link via Jaynee.

Also, scroll down for more hilarity - profanity alert for those who care about that kind of thing. I think this one’s getting added to the rolls.

Friday, March 18, 2005

Early reports this week were that my sister’s TV interview with CNN was getting bumped to next week. The excuse: busy news week. Right - every week is a busy news week these days.

However, Jaynee reports that the interview is slated for Aaron Brown’s show tonight. Set your Tivos, people.

Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Sounds like Chris had a bad morning.

Heh.

Joe Carter has a great post on why boycotting, for the Christian, is questionable. The one point that rings with me:

In a fallen world, though, uses of power – both violent and nonviolent – can sometimes be legitimate and necessary. But the righteousness of a cause cannot be imputed to the tactics. Even when nonviolent means are called for, boycotts are an improper abuse of power. Rather than being a loving rebuke, boycotts are a form of moral extortion. By cutting off economic ties with a corporation or business, the boycotters are using coercion to force a person to do something they would not willingly do on their own. While Christians may have legitimate reasons for not using a certain product or associating with a particular business, banding together to cut off legitimate commerce has no Biblical warrant.

I agree wholeheartedly and it is why I have never boycotted for the cause of Christ.

Via Robbo Llama Butcher (and I’ve seen this linked before elsewhere, but can’t remember where I saw it), the Gizoogle search engine.

Here’s the results page on a search of ”lintefiniel musing.”

Here’s the results page on a search of ”jen speaks.”

Both profanity-riddled and hilarious. Yo!

Saturday, March 12, 2005

My sister will be on TV on Friday night.

Pretty cool.

Via The Thinklings, we have a movie version of the famous March Madness brackets. The movie genre? Comedy.

It’s a fun little game - go give it a try and let me know your Final Four, Final Game, and Winner in the comments.