Serving Bread

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!“But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God…”  John 1.12
Last week, we (Southern California InterVarsity) had an evangelistic plunge on the UCLA campus. It was fun, tiring, and [...]

When a child gets sick, the parent gets sick as well
The child does not discriminate when he or she gets sick. The parents’ schedule is of no interest to the child.
When sick, the child is particular as to which parent he or she wants for comfort. The child is allowed to change his or her [...]

Paradise Now
Directed by: Hany Abu-Assad
Year: 2005
Length: 91 minutes
Rating:
This film was nominated (with controversy) for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, submitted from “the Palestinian Territories”. It is the story of two friends who find themselves recruited to be suicide bombers in Israel. The movie explores their friendship, their motivations and hesitations to be martyrs for [...]

13 Now the people of Bethshemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley. When they looked up and saw the ark, they went with rejoicing to meet it. 14 The cart came into the field of Joshua of Bethshemesh, and stopped there. A large stone was there; so they split up the wood of [...]

Parade, the little magazine that comes in the Sunday version of the LA Times, had a cover article titled, “Where America Leads the World (and where we do not)”. Here are some statistics:

Where Americans are No. 1 in the world
Where Americans lag

Billionaires: 371 (worth $1.1 trillion)
Doctors: 43 countries have more physicians per capita than we [...]

The war on terrorism has been hailed as the war needed to make the world a safer place. The attack on the World Trade Center in 2001 catalyzed the Bush administration to declare war against terrorism and to use Iraq as a battlefield. The United Nations just reported that 35,000 civilians were killed in Iraq [...]

Andrew Sullivan cites a recent poll to show that Evangelicals are becoming less hawkish (Why evangelicals are hawkish will be left for another post). Apparently, 60% of those identified as White Evangelical oppose the recent surge of troops. Sullivan goes on to highlight that someone like Sam Brownback, senator from Kansas, could garner the support [...]

Not sure what is the accurate definition of “prophetic”, but the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” seems fits as “prophetic”. When words that were true and challenging forty years ago are still fitting today, then the words are more than just the words of a mortal man, but a [...]

The number of spam attacks in a 12 hour period. Akismet caught 140 of them, allowing only two to get through. Because of these attacks, I have decided to add an anti-spam field to the comment fields. My blog is popular–with the wrong people!

The outrage is not that we have a prison on the Cuban island. It’s not that we put some dangerous people out there. The outrage that a lot of people who are there don’t know why they are there. Since 9/11, our government has not charged many of them with a crime. They are just [...]