Now It’s Priest Idol Channel 4 will screen a new reality television series which aims to boost a congregation in a parish with poor church attendance. With the working title Priest Idol, the show will give a vicar 12 months to boost the church’s turnout. Backed by advisors, the vicar will be able to spend…

I’ve been slowly reading Thomas Paine’s Common Sense and while this is a point I’ve known for awhile, reading a primary source document can really make history alive. We all know from our history books that Common Sense helped to convince many colonists that we did need to rebel against England. When actually reading the…

Personality types can reveal to us much about ourselves. Through work with my Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, I have figured out why I do a lot of the things I do. Since our personalities reach into all aspects of ourselves, I was not surprised to learn there are specific types of prayers that work better for…

Last year, Jimmy led a Lambda Night Prayer on the topic of vocations. He collected a couple of short prayers, both of which I hadn’t heard before. As I’m working on the Kraft Paperwork Reduction Act of 2003 (I’ll explain in a second), I ran across the sheet. It is posted on here mostly for…

Have you heard that Tori Amos song “I don’t like Mondays”? If not, I would reccomend taking a minute and downloading it (via legal means of course!). The silicon chip inside her head Gets switched to overload And nobody gonna go to school today She gonna make them stay at home Daddy doesn’t understand it…