restless reformer

I’ll be there.  Here are the details, copied straight from Bill Chellis at De Regno Christi:
If you live in or near Rochester allow me to invite you to the Old Toad this Thursday at 5:00 p.m. Bill Kauffman will be joining us to discussion his recent books. Bill is a Western New York legend and has […]

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Wow.

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Just brilliant.

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Remember “I didn’t inhale?”
Here’s a lesson for rookie cigar smokers: Don’t inhale the smoke. Taste it in your mouth, then blow it out. I repeat, don’t inhale the smoke.
You will vomit.

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“After winning the Presidents’ Trophy last season, the Sabres are in jeopardy of becoming only the third team since the NHL’s expansion era began in 1967-68 to miss the playoffs a year after finishing first in the regular-season standings.”
Story here.

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Prayers for Blowouts has an interview with me posted today.

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Birthday gift cards to Borders make me very happy. I picked up two books I’ve really been wanting today: Timothy Keller’s The Reason for God, and Alister McGrath’s Christianity’s Dangerous Idea. I can’t wait to get to them, but they’re several books down the list (which means, yes, Chris, you can borrow them […]

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Moses was high on drugs when he received the 10 Commandments.
The rationale?
“As far Moses on Mount Sinai is concerned, it was either a supernatural cosmic event, which I don’t believe, or a legend, which I don’t believe either, or finally, and this is very probable, an event that joined Moses and the people of […]

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So, I was quite wrong. Buffalo loses their best defenseman, and doesn’t get one in return. The trade was Campbell to San Jose for Steve Bernier and a 1st round pick. One the plus side, this is Buffalo saying, “We’re not good enough to win a Cup with this team; we need […]

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The Trade Deadline approaches.  Tomorrow is the final day for trades.  Will the Sabres do anything?  My prediction is, No.  Last year, as Cup contenders, they only picked up Zubrus, which wasn’t enough.  This year, battling for a bottom position in the playoffs, they’ll likely do nothing, or perhaps make one very, very minor move.  […]

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Despite the fact that, being a father of an 18-month old, the word “blowout” is now much more associated with overflowing diapers than with big sports victories, and therefore I would never pray for a blowout, the blog Prayers for Blowouts is a great blog for dialogue on sports and faith. I just completed […]

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Over the next few days, Ben and I will be working on major site changes. I like the previous theme a lot, but it has bugs in IE that are annoying to me.

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My news writers think they’re gonna go all Hollywood on me and strike. I told them I’d double their pay. They thought that was really hilarious, since two times zero equals zero. So no weekend report, but here are a few L’Engle quotes from Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art.
On […]

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I’m embarking on a task that I’m not very good at - self-promotion.  Not for this site, really, but for Sword of Gryffindor.  I need to put a lot of energy into getting as much traffic to that site as possible, for the very simple reason that I’m writing this book that will be published […]

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As if I don’t already have enough websites, I’ve launched another: englishtech.net.  This isn’t another attempt at shameless self-promotion, and it was not a planned strategic move in my overall campaign to take over the world.  Rather, I’m doing an independent study on Integrating Technology in the English Classroom, and this site is sort of […]

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