Serving Bread

It’s not too often that our favorite ‘evangelical’ speaks, but when [tag]Bono[/tag] does, we hip evangelicals should listen. His column in “Time Magazine” last week reiterated his commitment to the poor through calling Europe to do what it said it would do fifty years ago (I was a history major and was never really familiar with the social justice elements of the [tag]Treaty of Rome[/tag]. This should inspire most of us to believe that a just world can exist). Bono’s activism in fighting poverty (and the host of ills related to it) has turned him into a rock-star with a conscience. (Though, by his own admission, he is still just a rock star)

On a somber note that hits closer to home for those of us involved with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, the post picked up from the Spanglish Gringo about the tragic death of the [tag]UNC mascot[/tag] makes me grateful for the ways that students have the capacity to love other students. Turns out the person driving the car is a prominent Armenian entertainer.

Sometimes, you have to wonder about the kind of suggestions that prominent people make. [tag]Robert Reich[/tag], who was former Labor Secretary during the Clinton Administration, wants the government to increase NASA’s budget to track [tag]killer asteroids[/tag]. NASA wants $1 billion to just track them by the year 2020. And of course, more money and creativity would then be needed to figure out how to destroy them before they hit planet earth. This is not news since people with such imagination usually reside in Hollywood and create fantasy movies about astronauts blowing up killer asteroids.

The favorite television show in this house is Signing Time on PBS. The whole [tag]baby sign[/tag] movement is becoming the popular thing to do, and it looks like there are many people who are jumping on the bandwagon to make money. The show is free on PBS, and our daughter has picked up way more [tag]sign language[/tag] (ASL) than we can keep track. And being on the CSUN campus with a large deaf and hard of hearing population, I have enjoyed building trust through the couple of dozen signs that I have picked up a long the way.

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