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June 2005



Romance at the G8

Thursday, 30 June 2005 9:15 A GMT-06
I saw the HBO movie The Girl at the Cafe and wasn't very impressed, although Bill Nighy was great.  I thought it was a little...preachy. 

Seeing the future

Tuesday, 21 June 2005 1:50 P GMT-06
I've been hearing ads on the radio for Wired Nextfest here in Chicago.  Now I'm really bummed my friend Bill is gone, because I'd love to go with him and theologically analyze everything there, as if we were back in our freaky Theology and Technol

Book meme (updated)

Sunday, 19 June 2005 6:45 P GMT-06
I've been on vacation in Texas so I didn't see that Jason tagged me to do the book meme until last night, and I also see that Thomas tagged me as well.  So here we go:How many books do you own?About 500.  Last night I counted how many books fit on

Prayer and the poor

Thursday, 9 June 2005 10:29 A GMT-06
"It follows that if Christians pray for "the poor," meaning by that some distant set of people to be pitied, whose suffering has no direct connection to those who pray; if at that point the people prayed for are pryaing in a church in

Six Feet Under

Wednesday, 8 June 2005 1:34 P GMT-06
So, what did we all think of the season premiere of Six Feet Under?I think Brenda and Nate are still both nuts and their marriage is a bad idea.I think it was out of character for Nate and Lisa to have gotten married in a church, as we saw via flash

Taking a vacation from the eucharist?

Wednesday, 8 June 2005 11:15 A GMT-06
The weekly Sunday Evening Eucharist service that I coordinated at my church has ended for the summer. Apparently, when the weather becomes hot and the kids are out of school, you don't need the body and blood of our Lord as much.

Military recruitment on campuses

Thursday, 2 June 2005 12:02 P GMT-06
I heard this story on NPR about the Dept. of Defense denying federal funding to schools that do not allow military recruiters on campus.  I was expecting a religious angle to the story, but there was none.  It turns out that Yale Law School does no