Posts Tagged ‘celebrity’
Obama's In, So No More Business As Usual
<![CDATA[Well, he did it. My brother lost the bet that he and I made several months back, wherein he all but swore on a Bible that there was no way that Barack Obama could beat John McCain in a general election. I believe his quote was, “A brotha… in these times? Against a war hero?…
Read MoreCable-access commencement: Snore no more!
<![CDATA[So I’m flipping channels at my sister’s house last night, after I helped move her TV across the room. Since I don’t have cable TV at home — which is a good thing, more or less — whenever I can watch it at someone else’s home, it’s always a slightly foreign experience. (This probably deserves…
Read MoreChurch Celebrity Deathmatch
<![CDATA[Skye Jethani is my new favorite columnist/blogger. If you’re wondering about the significance of my making this statement, then check out the last time I said that about someone (in that case, Eugene Robinson). This time, it was the way he nailed my frustration with the Purpose personality-driven church model. His latest piece on the…
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