• Well, thanks to a new blog reader (Bloglines) I can now access those blogspot blogs again!  Thank goodness… Unfortunately, I don’t think I can make comments on your blogs from that site.  Maybe I’ll figure out how to do that, too. So, I’m curious…besides this one (ha-ha) what blogs do you frequent most often?  I’d…

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  • I’m not sure why, but lately I’ve been thinking of an old acquaintance of mine.  His name was Meatball.  I don’t even know his real name, but everyone called him Meatball so in my mind that’s what his name will forever be. I met him, of all places, at the Southern Baptist Church I grew…

  • I added an option in my sidebar that will now allow you to "subscribe" to this blog via email.  So, if you can’t be bothered to come out to the internet to check for updates, the updates can now come to you.  (I subscribed with my Yahoo account and the post looked pretty good…) If…

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  • (Note: This is a continuation of a few posts I did previously talking about what it’s like here in Xining.  Here are posts number 1 and number 2 in the series…) The students pour from the classrooms like fire ants erupting from a collapsed anthill.  They scramble out of the concrete and glass jiaoshilou’s (classroom…

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  • I don’t know what it is about the month of May, but it seems to be births galore…(this is the third announcement so far.) I would like to congratulate Christa’s cousin Josie and her husband Elod on the birth of their first son, Matyas Tibor Boromisza.  A good Hungarian name (as it should be since…

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  • "Incline Your ear to me, rescue me quickly;Be to me a rock of stength,A stronghold to save me.For You are my rock and my fortress;" Psalm 31:2-3a I was reading Psalm 31 today and when it started talking about God being like a fortress and stronghold I immediately thought of one of my childhood interests: …

  • So this guy just set the American hot-dog eating record.  He ate 50 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes. This 22 year old holds other records in "quickly" eating pork ribs, waffles, and jalapeno poppers, but he still doesn’t hold the world record for hot dogs.  That record is 53 1/2 and was set…

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  • I just finished The Gospel in a Pluralist Society which I have been quoting so often lately.  I have to say I was really blown away by the book.  It’s too bad that Newbigin has such a scholarly approach to writing because I think more people could benefit from his writing and the way he…

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  • Not sure where he got it from, but this picture my friend Tomas sent me is classic:

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