Monthly Archives: August 2006

Pride Goes Before a Fall…

and also at the top of the billboard.

I was watching 30 Days, a great show where two vastly different worlds collide when one person decides to live the life of someone else for thirty days. In the first season, one of the more intriguing ones had a Christian (from Texas, if I remember correctly) live with a family of Muslims. Quite timely, and still so.

The episode to which I refer in my title had an atheist live with a Christian family (also from Texas). The show doesn’t always do religious themes, but they’re usually the most controversial.

One quick take made me laugh out loud. The camera pans across the outdoor sign for the church that the Christian family attends. It had the Pastor’s name at the top, and then “It’s all about God” at the bottom.

I laughed because…shouldn’t that be reversed?

And if you feel the need to make your own church sign, the wonders of the internet allow you to do so here. Just be nice.

The Emergent Church Meets Digg

I love stumbling onto a new website and being pleasantly surprised at what it contains. WhatsRemarkable.com is a Digg-like site for articles and posts pertaining to the Emergent Church. It’s user-submitted, user-driven, user-voted, user-commented, user-friendly, and remarkably remarkable for mashing up two great ideas. It’s hosted by the Emergent Village, which describes itself as “a growing, generative friendship among missional Christians seeking to love our world in the Spirit of Jesus Christ.” Both sites are worth checking out, and WhatsRemarkable.com is worth joining in on the conversation.

Never Underestimate the Power of the Comma

[or the 2.13 Million Dollar Comma]
[or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Comma]
[or Comma-tose: When English Majors Sleep on the Job]

“A grammatical blunder may force Rogers Communications Inc. to pay an extra $2.13-million to use utility poles in the Maritimes after the placement of a comma in a contract permitted the deal’s cancellation.The controversial comma sent lawyers and telecommunications regulators scrambling for their English textbooks in a bitter 18-month dispute that serves as an expensive reminder of the importance of punctuation.”

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