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… for “One Shining Moment,” CBS Sports’ annual tribute to college basketball’s March Madness. The drama. Energy. Emotion. Great job again last night. And that Luther Vandross sure can sing. (Will we ever hear him sing live again? Where is he in his recovery?) As for the game, congratulations, North Carolina, on a classic victory, [...]
Community Building — the 50 Cent Way
Monday, March 28th, 2005From the annals of “There goes the neighborhood” — Big, bad Fitty (a/k/a 50 Cent) moved into a luxe suburban town and what did he do to endear himself to the neighbors? He threw an all-access, no holds barred party (“like it’s your birthday”) and invited just enough locals to generate some goodwill. Although the [...]
Something’s Happenin’ Here
Wednesday, March 16th, 2005Vibe Magazine on our friends at Youth Explosion: “Rap meets religion at the Christ Tabernacle in Queens, where they bring the ruckus as much as they repent.” Check out the six page photo spread here. What was that I heard about every knee bowing, and every tongue confessing?
Where’s the Beef?
Thursday, March 10th, 2005Classic images endure. They’re timeless and unforgettable, like the confrontational Wendy’s woman from the 1980s who shouted at fast food clerks: “Where’s the beef?!” Sometimes I feel like that little old lady. Leaving aside the obvious physical differences (such as me being 40 or so years younger, 6’2″, 225, and male), I often feel like [...]
ABC – Always Been Credible?
Thursday, March 10th, 2005Nightline did this great show on Tuesday re. the rising influence of bloggers. It’s just a bit bizarre to hear that my little corner of the blogosphere is somehow part of a larger whole that’s reshaping the worlds of journalism, activism, policy, socializing, and so much more. But what was with the sanctimonious sign-off on [...]
S-E-X
Wednesday, March 9th, 2005My buddies seem fixated on the topic. Liz channeled Salt-N-Pepa flava recently and Jose and Mayra are all lovey-dovey every chance they get (see for instance, 1 and 2). For whatever it’s worth, here’s another perspective on the topic I wrote last year after Nipplegate. A sixteen year old boy ogles internet porn on his [...]
Akon’s achin’ ghetto
Monday, March 7th, 2005If you ever wondered why God loves inner city kids, check out the (cheesey pun alert!) aching song Ghetto by hip hop/R&B singer Akon. An immigrant to NJ from Senegal, he was ensnared by the streets until a jail stint forced him to concentrate on his music. A lyrical sample follows: These streets remind me [...]
Too much too soon?
Tuesday, March 1st, 2005Former Korn guitarist Brian “Head” Welch quit the multi-plantinum metal band last week, 2 months after receiving Christ into his life, due to conflicts over their videos and lyrics. This weekend, he shared his testimony at a southern California church to an estimated 10,000 church goers. MTV has been all over this story for the [...]
29,000 died of hunger today
Friday, February 25th, 2005That many die of hunger every 24 hours. To them we dedicated the Voice of Silence. Over two hundred inner city teens gathered at Primitive Christian Church to consider the pain of hunger as part of World Vision’s 30 Hour Famine. Through spoken word, music, dance, and art, they identified with the hurting and vowed [...]
This just in from Tony S.
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005Apparently there are three thousand people groups that do not have any Bible in their language. Yet, as Tony Sheng laments, the Christian ghetto here in America debates how to market the umpteenth English translation, the TNIV, for maximum return on investment.
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