Between the Trees

I got an e-mail from Eric on Monday letting me know that he was done blogging here at BtT and I was able to read his post and have a few days to decide what to do before his post dropped.
And I decided that I’ll follow his lead and stop blogging at BtT as well.
I’d [...]

I got this e-mail yesterday from Nelson Musipa, the director of Navigators in Zambia, where I spent the summer two years ago.
“Dear Friends,
This past Sunday I came back from Kabwe where I had gone to attend a Leadership Team meeting only to find that Tatenda our youngest daughter who had started running a temperature on [...]

OK, it’s not quite that great, but they’ll both be on Nightline later this week discussing the existence of Satan. The debate was filmed earlier this week at Mars Hill and will be aired on the 26th. I probably won’t be able to see it live, but I’m sure it’ll be available online.

Tonight we’re having a going-away party for a good friend.
So today we moved a couch that hadn’t been moved in 8 months to make the room a bit bigger for the party.
Underneath we found:
3 lighters
3 cigarettes
67 cents (which our roommate Jason picked up, saying it was “his due”)
1 notecard
8 wine corks
1 very old crispy looking [...]

Has anyone taken the Belief-o-matic quiz at Beliefnet? It asks you about 20 questions and then matches your answers with the teachings of various religious groups. Like any other similar test, it’s not perfect, but I still find it interesting.
And yes, you will find yourself wanting to add nuance to just about every question. If [...]

From the Wikipedia article on Lord of the Rings.
“Even within Tolkien’s literary group, The Inklings, reviews were mixed. Hugo Dyson complained loudly at its readings, and Christopher Tolkien records Dyson as “lying on the couch, and lolling and shouting and saying, ‘Oh God, no more Elves.’”
Have I ever mentioned before how much I love wikipedia?

Saw this on one of my professor’s office door. Brilliant.
After determining the Big-12 championship game participants, the BCS computers were put to work on other major contests and today the BCS declared Germany to be the winner of World War II.
“Germany put together an incredible number of victories beginning with the annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland [...]

Recently I was talking to a friend about dating and relationship issues and he said he felt called to celibacy. I asked him why and he said he’d never seen a healthy marriage relationship.
Hearing someone say that so bluntly made me realize how grateful I am that I grew up in a home with two [...]

For anyone interested in web 2.0 or new media, go check out this story in the Christian Science Monitor. It’s reporting on a hunger strike in Saudi Arabia organized through Facebook.

For those of you who want to contact Jake and I directly, whether to ask a question, report a problem, or tell us that we’re all headed for hell, I’ve just added a contact page linked over in the right side bar. If you spam us, I will hunt you down