My Own Thoughts

I was looking for the answer to the question of whether faith has increased in the US since 9/11 and possibly decreased again. Along the way I found this blog entry which is talking about the amount of time people spend at church versus listening to Christian music, reading religious books, etc. I think it’s [...]

According to this article at Reuters, obese women should walk slower to lose weight. I like that idea.

Azerbaijan. I got this email from a prayer group. Read it and weep. I did. M-W- and his wife S- “are missionaries in Baku, Azerbaijan, (a predominantly Muslim country) with Campus Crusades.  During the past year they have suffered persecution in the form of a corrupt judicial system.  It seems as if someone high in [...]

Barna syas that only 33% of all Catholics, Lutherans, and Methodists in the US believe that Christ was without sin. That’s kind of scary, since Catholics are the ones most going to church according to adherents.com with 12% of the US population attending a Catholic church on a weekly basis. 55-73% of Baptists, non-denominational, Assembly [...]

Religious Movement’s Website says that Willow Creek church is the second largest church, after Second Baptist in Houston, with 17,000 people in church every weekend. So they are saying that Second Baptist is the largest. Christian Unplugged in an editorial by Voice of the Martyr said that Willow Creek is the largest church in America. [...]

Michael Spencer, Outing Joel Osteen came up when I was looking for the largest church in America. It was not what I was expecting. I’ve been to Lakewood. It’s not what I am seeing on this website. Aaronimo’s Xanga Site has an article on the problems with Lakewood, specifically the communion service there. My response [...]

Randy Ingermanson Talks About Writing has some interesting stuff on how to become a published author. He includes a description of authors in four steps and how he recommends meeting editors.

The Common Room has a poste on reading and re-reading children’s books. I was very interested. So I went to look at it. I read the comments as well. We didn’t have much money, so we went to the library a lot. And I didn’t re-read books much then because we were always moving and [...]

Quizilla has the quiz on this topic. I found the answers very strange. I mean, yes, I have antiques, books and more books, and Great-Grandma’s endtables to decorate my house, but those are three different answers. Mr. Potato Head You have your ideal of how thingsshould look, but youre flexible enough to allowfor change. You [...]

In his book Why Men Hate Going to Church, David Murrow discusses the hormonal and brain differences between men and women. Horomonal differences: 1. Men have more testosterone and so find it harder to sit still. 2. Their way of dealing with bad situations is to fight and get it over with. Which means there [...]

I don’t have the answers, but David Murrow, in his book, appears to think he does. Most churches have at least 12% more women than men. Here churches means organizations, not individual congregations. (57) That means that 13 million more women than men are in church on a given Sunday. (53) The basic reason is [...]

other: The Purpose-Driven Life, which I didn’t find anywhere near as impressive as others have Why Men Hate Going to Church, which was interesting. I will blog on it later. romance: Redwing’s Lady Ramirez’s Woman His Real Father The Sheriff’s Daughter Never Too Late One Eye Closed Worth Fighting For The Eleventh Hour Mommy Wish [...]

Ramblings of an Ordinary… said that he sees no point in the magnets on the cars. I’ve already been through this with Blackfive and would have commented, but you have to have a blogger account, and I don’t want one. So… Yellow magnets. I got mine free. Someone took it off my car and I [...]

The Supreme Court was so not right when they said that the government was allowed to steal people’s property for any reason whatsoever. Mayor White, of Houston, said, “Of course that is terrible.” And then went on to say that it would be good to use the rule to get rid of some “blights.” Oh, [...]

The Guardian has an article on the excavation of the sea battle that brought about Xerxes’ defeat.

I put a link on the last post to two websites, but then I hit the delete key when some stuff was marked and Eric at Straight White Guy ended up being identified as the Finklin and Frank show. Sorry about that, Eric. So, two different websites to look at. Staight White Guy, but beware [...]

As mentioned before, I am attempting to keep a list of the books I have read up on the net. Here are 357-369. Btw, this is day 170 of the year. So two books a day would be 340. I’m past that. other: Mission Alive!by Gailyn Van Rheenen The Status of Missions in the Churches [...]

This article talks about what Reader’s Digest agreed to in order to interview Tom Cruise. From what I’ve seen and heard RD’s first comments, quoted in the article, are likely to be true. A religion wouldn’t need such a massive legal base to attack people who are talking about it if there weren’t something seriously [...]

Vitamin Q has a post on boys’ names that don’t (or shouldn’t) transfer over to dogs. So I went looking. I looked up “my dog Noah” in Google. But 81 was just too high. Then “my dog Ron.” There were 34 but only 10 actually referred to the dog as being Ron. So 10 “my [...]

I was using Dark Maple as a template, because I really liked the presentation. But, despite what it looks like at the top, there is no search, no popup archive list, and I at least need search. So I am switching to Neuron. I am not as fond of the look, but the usage is [...]