I mispell things!
here’s an interesting set of questions asked of shane claiborne of the simple way by rachel stanton of “compassion and justice“. the questions were posted as an article on the ooze. as usual claiborne says some great stuff.
[tags]the simple way, shane claiborne[/tags]
i’m testing out google analytics over the next four or five weeks to see if i like it or not. i use feedburner to keep track of the rss subscribers that read the blog but i can’t get it’s visitor information to work right on the actual hits to the blog. i used to use sitemeter but i like what i see in the google analytics reports better than what i saw on sitemeter’s reports. we’ll see how this goes.
i think i’m also going to goof off with tagcloud a little bit (i saw this on church marketing sicks)
my run for the day
distance – 2.0 miles
time – 19:08
pace – 9:44/mile
[tags]google, google analytics, sitemeter, website stats, tagcloud[/tags]
i think the youtube battle between the bbc investigative show “panorama” and the “church” of scientology is great entertainment. john sweeney did and investigative report on scientology and scientology’s response was to do an “investigative” report on him discrediting. i have mixed feelings here because i think it is hilarious that a reporter received the same treatment that some of them have given out to their subjects before (i don’t know john sweeney so i can’t say if he has done such attacks or not). it’s kind of funny. you can view scientology’s response to panorama’s show here.
with that said, in my opinion the people from scientology are freaky. from watching both sweeney’s film and the film from scientology it seems obvious to me that the people from scientology were trying to intimidate and disrupt everything that was happening. it is my understanding that scientology has always had a rep for trying to force people to shut up and the film just seems to make their techniques even clearer. of course, i’m not real sure what else we could expect from a “church” founded by a science fiction writer.
you can view the entire panorma episode “scientology and me” by clicking the four links below:
my run for the day
distance – 2.0 miles
time – 20:28
pace – 10:14/mile
[tags]scientology, panorama, john sweeney, bbc[/tags]
first the important news. pam had some minor surgery today. pam has a recurrent tracheal stenosis that interferes with her breathing. today they basically stretched her trachea back out to the size it is supposed to be. she went through it like a champ and she is home and fine now. she is presently sleeping the drugs off and feeling fine.
secondly, “speaking of faith” is a public radio program that deals with faith in america. they decided to do an episode on the new monastic movement, focusing specifically on the simple way. i was thrilled to find out earlier today that they decided to use one of my photos for the webpage art. here’s the page.
cool huh?
[tags]new monasticism, simple way, photography, public radio[/tags]
stevens point, wisconsin is number seven on this year’s list of the one hundred best places to live in the u.s. of a.
how cool is that?
when i was in high school dothan, alabama (my hometown) was declared one of ran mcnally’s fifty worst places to live in the u.s.
i have now gone full circle.
SIDE NOTE – my salsa came in second within the competition. they said it was good but it was too hot. i would have to agree that this batch was a little warmer than normal.
you may not know this but i cut the cheese better than anybody else in my immediate family. it’s true. it comes naturally to me because my father was also an excellent cutter of the cheese. i don’t really know my biological grandfather so i can’t really say if he cut the cheese well or not but i do know that my step-grandfather (who was my real grandfather) was one of the best cheese cutters i have ever heard of (this of course lends more credence to nurture versus nature). so i come from a long line of excellent cheese cutters and because of this lineage i was able to make my youngest son proud in his class today.
you see today was noah’s oral report on the state of wisconsin. he has been working on the written version of this report for three weeks or so. pam and i knew that the oral report was coming soon so while we were in wisconsin last week we bought noah a wheel of cheese to pass out during his report. i brought it to class today and it was one of the best moments of my life. first, because i was able to use the talent that my family has passed down to me, and secondly because when noah’s teacher said to me “and mr. terrell what are you here to do?” i was able to answer “well, i am here to cut the cheese!”
it doesn’t get much better than saying that line in a room full of 4th graders. today my cheese wheel and i were the elementary school equivalents of george carlin.
[tags]cutting the cheese, cheese wheel, cheese[/tags]
i thought i would take a second and brag on some friends at the ring community church. i was talking with jessica today and she told me what they had done for mother’s day. if you have ever been in an evangelical church during mother’s day then you have probably watched as a big deal is made of mom’s (which is a good thing) and a crappy gift is given to them (these are usually cheap, stupid little things that nobody ever uses – like a quote book, or a flimsy bookmark, or a wilted carnation). jess recommended that instead of wasting allot of money on allot of people to acquire nothing more than clutter she recommended to the leadership of the ring (basically josh and meg for this decision) that they take the money they would have wasted on the meaningless gifts and instead give it to world vision in honor of their mom’s. so that’s what they did – they gave all the money to world vision to help the helpless and printed out a little booklet to give to the mom’s in their church explaining what the money would be used for.
it was a simple yet brilliant idea. from what i hear many of the mothers in the room were moved to tears. i wish i had thought of it. i will definitely be using it when jar starts.
speaking of “jar” i figured i would give y’all an update on what is happening now that our assessment is complete. here’s what is happening:
SIDE NOTE – “24” has gone down hill – it is a sad day in tv-land.
SIDE SIDE NOTE – we’re entering our homemade salsa in a salsa competition wednesday. i didn’t even know that there were such things as salsa competitions.
[tags]ring community church, world vision, mother’s day, salsa[[/tags]
this is stinking hilarious. there are some wickedly sick people in this world and i for one am thankful that many of them have video cameras.
[tags]squirrels, squirrel catapult, youtube[/tags]
eric (one of the student within the youth ministry) and some friends made this video and i think it is great.
my run for the day
distance – 1.5 miles
time – 16:28
pace – 10:58/mile
yesterday i received a few negative anonymous comments on one of my church planting posts. they were pretty vulgar and therefore i didn’t allow them to stay up. the thing that gets me is not the fact that they were negative, personally i like people feeling comfortable enough around me to disagree with something i write or say. instead what gets me is when someone posts the comments anonymously. i know i’ve posted on this before but it really drives me nuts. these comments were most likely just random comments from someone who accidentally surfed in and therefore they probably didn’t come from someone who actually want to do anything other than be rude. of course, i’ll never know since the comments were left anonymously.
i’ll probably just skip commenting on anonymous comments in the future.