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U2's Stage for Upcoming Tour
Posted by Michael K. | Filed under Pop Culture, Videos
It’s big. Really, really big. Check it out: (HT: Z)
Michael Jackson's Funeral
Posted by Michael K. | Filed under Pop Culture
Vitamin Z here with some good thoughts: Everyone knows that Michael has been dead for awhile now… or so we thought. Thousands gather for the memorial service a week later and are treated to the shock of a lifetime. At the end of the service, Michael jumps out of the casket in the full Thriller [...]
50 Cent – The Wind Beneath My Wings
Posted by Michael K. | Filed under Pop Culture
No kidding. According to an article referenced by Vitamin Z, Bette Midler and 50 Cent are now BFF’s: The two apparently met while working on park restoration projects together. Says Bette, “He is one of the newest members of our tribe. He has really made my life worth living. 50 has been with me through [...]
Steroids In Your Context
Posted by Michael K. | Filed under Pop Culture
It came out this week that Manny Ramirez used illegal performance enhancing drugs. As a consequence, he is forfeiting approximately $7.7 million in salary and will be suspended for 50 games, or 1/3 of the baseball season. You can read the full story here. I’ll be the first to say that my typical reaction to [...]
On the Road to "Major" Sin
Posted by Michael K. | Filed under Pop Culture, Theology
From MMI: How long does it take sin to totally screw up your life? OK… here’s where I’m going with this one: One day your a prominent pastor. The next you get caught with a male prostitute allegedly buying crystal meth. One day you’re a pastor, looked up to by your congregation. The next, you’re [...]
Bigger Than Jesus
Posted by Michael K. | Filed under Pop Culture, Quotes
Today, 4 decades ago in 1966, London’s “Evening Standard” newspaper published an interview with Beatle John Lennon in which he remarked: Christianity will… vanish and shrink… We’re more popular than Christ right now.
Food Wasters
Posted by Michael K. | Filed under Pop Culture
That’s exactly what we are. According to an article in Popular Science, we are throwing away more than enough food to make significant progress in the area of world hunger: In the current climate of rising gas and food prices, it should stand to reason that people would find ways to change their most wasteful [...]
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