Archive for January, 2006

Friday, January 27th, 2006

Go Ahead…Just Curse God and Die…

I found an interesting story from Rueters, via tg2.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - A starving Kenyan woman placed a powerful tribal curse on God, accusing him of sending famine, and died in her sleep, local newspapers said Thursday.
The woman from eastern Kenya’s drought-ravaged Kangundo district decided to invoke a dreaded oath from the Kamba community, famed [...]

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Friday, January 27th, 2006

Openly Straight Christian Activist To Play Gay Part

The funniest thing I’ve run across this week…thanks to Thorn for the link, and to the Mind behind it.
Kirk Cameron, actor and Christian activist has been tagged to play the part of Chad Allen in the proposed made for TV biopic “The Start of the Rainbow at the End of the Spear”. This choice has [...]

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Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

My Generation

As I sit here listening to Bono's Rolling Stone interview, I'm amazed at his depth and perception of the spiritual and cultural. If you've been living under a rock the past few months and don't know what I'm talking about, you definitely need to go to iTunes and download the podcasts. There are 7 [...]

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Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

Update…

On Monday, I had a wonderfully cordial dialogue with Gary Ledbetter, Communications Director at SBTC. Having known Gary since 2002 and having some similar musical interests (Gary is a former drummer who’s gigged with some interesting people—viva the Lizard King!), it was good to catch up and fill in some blanks from both perspectives.
According to [...]

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Monday, January 23rd, 2006

The Fly Guy

Click here for Monday’s Mindless Fun…

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Monday, January 23rd, 2006

Banned!

This banned XBOX ad reminds me of the way we, The Church, turn on each other. Especially the closing two words…

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Monday, January 23rd, 2006

My Agenda, Mr. Manelikocu

I have an anonymous lurker who, on another blog, has accused me of having some kind of hidden agenda among Faith Harbour issue. On this blog, he identifies himself as Manelikocu, but gives no real identifying information, except that he knows a great deal about the Harbour/SBTC issue and claims to have information that would [...]

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Friday, January 20th, 2006

SBTC Pastor Removed, Part 5–The Rub

Yesterday, Jan. 20, Bapist Press and Jerry Pierce (SBTC) issued yet another article in an effort to put out the fire. According to the article, Rix Tillman, pastor of Exciting Immanuel Baptist Church in El Paso and a credentials committee member, said Haney unconvincingly tried to argue to the committee that because Eklektos is not [...]

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Friday, January 20th, 2006

SBTC Pastor Removed, Part 4

In a unique turn of events yesterday, an AP reporter contacted Gary Ledbetter, Editor In Chief at SBTC and someone whom I consider a friend, about this whole matter. According to Ledbetter ” they were not concerned about Haney starting a new church and they were not concerned about him setting up a woman as [...]

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Thursday, January 19th, 2006

SBTC Removes Pastor, Part 3

If you haven’t already done so, please read the Baptist Press story here.
Read Part One of this post.
Read Part Two of this post.
To close out the evening, Biles told Haney that he had to write a letter that explained his theological postition on homosexuality, disavow the “new church”, Eklektos, disavow Wendy Bailey, and [...]

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