Serving Bread

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!From October 10, 2007

I’m not much of a prayer warrior, but with gas prices up (with no relief in sight), I may have to join this group of the faithful. It seems that when all else fails (politics, capitalism, boycotts, economics), turn to God. The price of oil continues to rise, and people are now bracing themselves for [...]

Honoring the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 — April 4, 1968).

His prophetically charged final sermon ends with,

Well, I don’t know what will happen now; we’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop. And I don’t mind. Like anybody, I [...]

It seems like we love controversies and scandals even when the scandal itself is a non-issue. In the past week, there have been several scandals that have surfaced that are non-issues.
McCain’s inappropriate relationship. “The New York Times” has recently come out with an article alleging that John McCain had an inappropriate relationship with a female [...]

This isn’t heaven on earth, but we’re a step closer than yesterday!

Last night, I got a phone call from one of our core InterVarsity students and close friend Yemi (affectionately known as Sky). He is a board member of The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and had been asked to speak at City Hall on the one year anniversary of the Michael [...]

Niall Ferguson is not looking to make too many friends. His column in today’s LA Times sheds a perspective on the recent controversy caused by the passage of HR 106 out of committee. This non-binding resolution affirms that the genocide of the Armenians in 1915 will indeed be considered a genocide by our governmnet.
Ferguson affirms [...]

I commend the 27 members of congress who voted for the passage of non-binding resolution HR 106 which would recognize the Armenian genocide as a genocide. I’ve mentioned before that the healing of a nation does not come because of government resolutions, and I think that the Armenian-American lobby has spent way too much time [...]

This is the face of evil
Question: How do you take a country that is rich with natural resources, has a relatively strong cultural identity, and an economy that was once “the darling” of the region? Answer: You hire Robert Mugabe to head it up.
Zimbabwe in sub-saharan Africa once had a thriving economy but now has [...]

A few years ago, the record industry made headlines by suing 26,000 people for illegally downloading music. Most defendants settled for a few thousand dollars. But not Jammie Thomas, who decided to go to court. Unfortunately, that was a big mistake—a $222,000 mistake. The jury found her guilty of file sharing and ordered her to [...]