Since Yahoo music has doubled their online service annual subscription since last year, I decided to check out other services. Virgin Digital is only $7.99 per month and I went through all the tracks I had downloaded from Yahoo and found them on Virgin Digital. So I will probably drop Yahop and go with Virgin for now ( Read more... )

Last night surpassed my expectations by a mile! Journey of Faith Church hosted Christ Church at the Easter Vigil. In the same way that we did things their way when they hosted us for Christmas (very traditional) they did things our way last night (very informal - no vestments - no clergy collars, very eclectic music, congregation seat in two sides ( Read more... )

Two front page articles caught my eye this morning: the first one in the Free Press, about a Jesuit priest coming out of the closet in protest of the Vatican’s issuance Tuesday of its policy on homosexuality and the discernment of vocation to priesthood; the second in the New York Times, about the University of the South’s retooling of its image as ( Read more... )

Can someone please explain to me how it is that the IRS manages to single out All Saints Pasadena for persecution while, apparently, completely ignoring all the fundamentalist churches out there that publicly endorsed and campaigned for the Republican candidate in the last General election? Ekkesia reports the story and does a good job of pointing ( Read more... )

Just in case you missed it, here's a link to video of Jeanine F. Pirro's latest gaff. Of course, that's assuming she hasn't made any more since last Tuesday. The video is part of a new internet ad by the New York State Democratic committee. This morning's NY Times has an article on the state of the Senate race in New York. This looks like it's ( Read more... )

This morning's email brings a report from ekklesia that the Changing Attitude Network affiliate in Nigeria, has openly challenged Archbishop Akinola. The Daily Sun of Nigeria issued a report on October 10, 2005: "Leader of gays and lesbians in Nigeria tackle primate of Anglican Church, Peter Akinola." Changing Attitude Network Nigeria was founded ( Read more... )

Last Wednesday night, I attended the Fourth Anniversary Program of the NCCJ's Interfaith Partners at the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn. (Interfaith Partners is a program of NCCJ - The National Conference for Community and Justice - with the mission to create deeper understanding among the Abrahamic faiths and to improve social welfare ( Read more... )

Last night, Leigh and I watched a ReplayTV'ed Daily Show from Thursday evening. It ended with an audio clip from Bill Bennett's radio show that, from my search of the Internet this morning, we must have been among the last in America to hear. But in case anyone missed it, Bennett's remarks were that "you wanted to reduce crime ... if that were your ( Read more... )

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Today, after church, a group of folks loaded up my car with clothes and food and I drove to La Pita in Dearborn to pick up a bunch of food for the people displaced by Katrina that Christ Church was hosting for lunch. I called the order in last night and, when asked what type of meat I wanted I asked what the manager thought I should get. As I ( Read more... )