• I’m not your average blogger

According to a recent Barna study, I’m not your average blogger.
“Blogs are most common among single adults, Northeast residents, homosexuals, those not registered to vote, and atheists and agnostics.”
Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. And nope.
While about one-quarter (23 percent) of Internet users have a page on Facebook or MySpace, only one-tenth of Americans [...]

• Lone Ranger to blame for Iraq War?

Unless you’ve been in a coma the past few days, you know that George Bush’s former press secretary, Scott McClellan, has come out with a blistering book about the President. McClellan writes that the president, “convinces himself to believe what suits his needs at the moment” and engages in “self-deception” to justify his political [...]

• What will half a trillion buy?

Sunday’s safe landing of the latest Mars explorer, Phoenix, has renewed talk of sending a manned mission to the red planet.
The Phoenix price tag is estimated at $520 million, but a manned mission could cost between $500 billion and $1 trillion. So, what else could half a trillion buy? Here are some thoughts.

• Sex and the Pity

The popular HBO series Sex and the City is coming to the big screen. The series followed relationship columnist and anthropologist, Carrie Bradshaw, as she and her three gal pals indulged in designer shoes and casual sex. As a researcher, Bradshaw somehow missed some important research findings on the subject—and that’s a pity!
For [...]

• Where is God in natural disasters?

May has been a horrific month of cyclones (100,000 possibly dead in Myanmar), earthquakes (55,000 reported dead in China) and thousands left homeless by the most-active tornado season ever in the Midwest. So, where is God in all these natural disasters?
Rabbi Daniel Lapin wrote, following December 2004’s tsunami, that when God commanded Adam and [...]

• Indiana Jones and the Suspension of Disbelief

MediaCollege.com describes “suspension of disbelief.”
In the world of fiction you are often required to believe a premise which you would never accept in the real world. Especially in genres such as fantasy and science fiction, things happen in the story which you would not believe if they were presented in a newspaper as fact. Even [...]

• Travel world on tank of gas

Yikes, with a tank of gas topping $3.99, the traditional family road trip may become a thing of the past. But fear not. Let me suggest the Rand McNally travel agency. Here’s what our team of investigative humor columnists discovered by searching through the index of its famous Road Atlas.
Click for “one-tank” worldwide [...]

• Proud Papaw’s pics

Before I have my grandparent license revoked, here are the 2008 pics of Micah, Hannah, Nathan and Kaylah. Lois and I have the privilege of babysitting the girls every Thursday afternoon and seeing the boys about every six weeks. What fun!
Tomorrow I’ll get back to the more mundane topics of sex, money and [...]

• Perfect timing

In January, I realized I didn’t have a single speaking engagement in June and July—which are usually two of my busiest months. And that was just a bit disconcerting!
The only other time I’ve had a summer without speaking engagements, the youth pastor at my wife’s church resigned—by email—to the entire church email list—at 11:30 [...]

• Reading, ‘riting and Rockies

What a joy to speak and share writing resources with the writers at the Colorado Christian Writers conference.
The students in my Communicate to Change Lives continuing seminar, as well as my one-hour Heavy Topics with a Light Touch, were very receptive and responsive. “Thank you, thank you! You’ve been a great audience!”
I [...]