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Saturday, December 31st, 2005Support New York City at-risk youth, here.
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Saturday, December 31st, 2005posted by Jeremy Del Rio @ 12/31/2005 06:44:00 PM
“His parents didn’t know about his journey until he told them by e-mail.”
Saturday, December 31st, 2005More on those tech-savy milennials: A 16-year old Florida boy plays hooky for a week, buys a plane ticket, and flys to Iraq. Mom and dad were clueless until after the fact. He’s due home after the New Year. Says mom: “Once he’s back and safe in my arms, then, yes, he’s going to be [...]
The Economist weighs in on megachurches
Saturday, December 31st, 2005From “Jesus, CEO: Churches as Businesses” (12/20/05): … The corporate theme is not just a matter of appearances. Willow Creek has a mission statement (“to turn irreligious people into fully devoted followers of Jesus Christâ€Â) and a management team, a seven-step strategy and a set of ten core values. The church employs two MBAsâ€â€one from [...]
Definitely not role models
Friday, December 30th, 2005Evidently the Miami and LSU footballs teams weren’t listening earlier this week when one of the great NFL coaches of our time, Tony Dungy of the Indianapolis Colts, buried his eighteen-year-old son after an apparent suicide. At the funeral, Dungy appealed to football players specifically, and world-class athletes generally, to respect their influence as role [...]
Not yet ashamed to admit it
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New Orleans sex offenders — coming soon to a state near you?
Friday, December 30th, 2005“Governors in states that accepted Katrina evacuees are being urged to locate about 2,000 registered sex offenders who fled the Gulf region during the hurricane’s mayhem and may have vanished from legally required tracking.” Article.Locate registered sex offenders in your neighborhood, here. Four live in my Brooklyn neighborhood. Thirty-two live in the East Village and [...]
Google’s “message in a bottle” really works
Friday, December 30th, 2005Rudy Carrasco tipped us off to the fact that name dropping in blog posts increases blog traffic from Google and other internet search engines, a lesson that’s proven to be very true in Year 1 of this blog. I’ve had more hits from people searching for Tupac, Kanye West, 50 Cent, Jay-Z, A. R. Bernard, [...]
The 700 Club
Friday, December 30th, 2005This is the 700th post on this blog. The title hopefully generates additional web traffic. If you’re searching for the 700 Club and stumbled on this post, visit for a while. You’re among friends (although we may not always agree). posted by Jeremy Del Rio @ 12/30/2005 08:29:00 PM
More on the Myspace Generation
Friday, December 30th, 2005Check out Andrew Jones’ article, “Linking to Cyberchurch” at Relevant Magazine: “If you have engaged in the Internet through the reading of religious blogs, downloading church podcasts, watching videos or chatting online with Christian friendsâ€â€chances are, you’ve participated in cyberchurch. Cyberchurch is one of the fastest growing macro-models of church today. So says George Barna [...]
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