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News For The Week Ending Dec. 27, 2007

December 28, 2007December 28, 2007 John Bluetooth headset, cell phone, Christmas Eve, Columbus, Fred Phelps, Ohio, physics, Robbery, San Francisco Zoo, scents, scientist, Septic Tank, string theory, Tiger, Time, Vodafone, Wendy-039s, Westboro Baptist Church

Here’s our last installment of the weekly tid bits for 2007. We’ve got a guy stuck in his septic tank on Christmas Eve. And leave it to Fred Phelps to end the year on some wing-nuttery as he blames the tiger attack in San Francisco on gay people. A wyoming woman stabbed her husband for opening presents early, and a bluetooth headset and cell phone foiled a robbery in Columbus, Ohio. We also have some Spanish scientists postulating that time might be slowing down.

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Hunger In America

December 10, 2007 John Appalachia, Christian Science Monitor, food insecure, Hunger

I came across an article at the Christian Science Monitor on-line today about hunger in America. I spent some evenings working in the homeless shelter in Winston-Salem some years ago, and have, as a result of that experience, developed some perspective on the problems of poverty and homelessness in America. I wish I had some solutions, but I don’t…just a sense of what the world is really like.

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And the Walls Came Tumbling Down

November 27, 2007August 24, 2008 John Paula White, Paula White Ministries, Randy White, Without Walls International Church

I’m not sure if Joshua played a role, but it seems the pastors of America’s fastest growing megachurch, Without Walls International Church, is having a bit of a crisis of leadership. Married pastors Randy and Paula White announced at last Thursday night’s service that they were getting a divorce.

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Hotels Now Offering Sex Kits Instead of Bibles?

November 18, 2007November 18, 2007 John AFA, American Family Association, Bible, Don Wildmon, Gideons, Goldfish, hotels, iPods, sex

This must be from the “are you shitting me” category. Krazy Kristian Kook, Don Wildmon, of the American Family Association is now warning that hotels are taking out the Gideon Bibles in favor so “intimacy kits.” I never really expected to write a post that included Goldfish, sex and iPods as tags. Leave it to good old Don to come through though.

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James Holsinger Preparing for Recess Appointment?

November 14, 2007 John James Holsinger, methodist, United States Surgeon General

Box Turtle Bulletin and other blogs are reporting that James Holsinger has resigned from the Board of Directors at Asbury Seminary, and is telling his pals that Bush will give him a recess appointment as United State Surgeon General.