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While they have not been viewed for quite some time, today was the day we finally disposed of every single one of our VeggieTales videos.
Who will join me?!

The SBC has just released a very good tool at http://www.peoplegroups.info/. This information comes from this site. I always knew my own community of Skowhegan, Maine, was very white- but it was interesting to see just how white it is.

Tim Challies quotes Douglas Wilson:
Homeschoolers, he says, are “people who have carefully considered all the options available to them in the education of their children, have prayerfully weighed them, and have decided to provide their children with an education at home.” Homers are extremists who “have a completely different attitude toward the process of homeschooling. [...]

Today these lyrics by Isaac Watts are often sung as the hymn we know as I Sing The Mighty Power of God.
1. How did this verse get eliminated?
2. Should we try to get it back in?
In heaven he shines with beams of love,
With wrath in hell beneath:
’Tis on his earth I stand or move,
And ‘tis [...]

Without any foundation in historical awareness, churches will view everything through a contemporary lens alone in a never-ending search for the ephemeral goal of “relevance.” We must heed the truism that “he who is married to the most recent trend is sure to become a widower.”
-Paul Hartog, “Economic Wisdom as an Analogy to Prudence of [...]

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SKOWHEGAN, Maine May 9, 2006 (AP)— A 43-year-old woman is charged with helping her daughter and two other teenage girls bake cookies laced with a laxative that were then given to a teacher.
Julie Hunt appeared in Skowhegan District Court on Monday and pleaded innocent to a charge of misdemeanor assault.
Hunt was arrested Friday after a [...]

The latest installment of In the Nick of Time is available, featuring Part 6 of Kevin Bauder’s very valuable series on The Da Vinci Code.
Did Jesus Marry?
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Previous entries in the series may be found here.

At Pensées, my friend Bob Bixby republishes a post in honor of Terri Schiavo, who died about a year ago. In “A Letter to Jeremy,” Bob reflects on Jeremy Janz, a dear college friend of his whom the Lord has seen fit to place in a scenario very similar the one Terri was in. I [...]

Say what you will about Dissidens, his point here is well stated:
(21st Century Evangelicalism) is so obsessed with “communicating the gospel to the unchurched�?, it is contemptuous of theology, oblivious to art, and dismissive of imagination. It is enamored with pop, the perfect tool to convey the vain, dull, shallow and barren ideas of modernity.