Month: May 2006

The Hills find a new church home

Churchmarketingsucks.com points to this video clip (removed) of the Hills looking for a new church and visiting the new Mega-Church.

Ever wonder what the rest of the world thinks when looking for a church? Maybe what I wonder or think too?

It seems everyone wants something relevant to them, even if that means a Tram from the coffee shop (that sells Nat King Cole) to the sanctuary with HDTV, which is sometimes known to be left on after church to show the Cowboys game.

It’s interesting though, that as I type this and think about all the options we have for churches, I’m listening to “Unfailing Love” by Chris Tomlin.

I’m glad that as often as we fail and as often as we try to bring people to church, God never changes. He never fails and He’s the same today, yesterday and tomorrow. And He’s still relevant, He’s still alive and still active in our lives.

Chris Bell comments on Kinky and Strayhorn

Chris Bell and me at a campaign stop in Waxahachie

I talked with Jason Stanford, a spokesperson for the Chris Bell campaign and he got a comment from the candidate for me (it was technically for the paper, but thought it was worth sharing here):

“Today shows why this race will come down to me and Rick Perry. While the independent candidates have to get non-voters to sign petitions and spend millions build statewide networks from scratch, I’m campaigning across South Texas and uniting a proven grassroots army called the Texas
Democratic Party.”

With four candidates this fall it should be interesting.

Is thinking obsolete?

From the e-mail files:

Amid all the hysteria among politicians and in the media over rising gasoline prices, and all the outraged indignation about oil company profits and their executives’ high pay and lavish perks, has anybody bothered to even estimate how much effect any of this actually has on the price we pay at the pump?

Re: Strayhorn and SOS

As reported earlier, from Kinky Friedman’s website:

“As our staff is beginning to consolidate and organize all of the petitions that Ms. Strayhorn turned in yesterday, we have consolidated her 101 boxes (of petitions) down to 12,” says Scott Haywood, communications director for the Secretary of State’s office. Haywood is not sure what the agency will do with the leftover cartons (all 101 delivered Tuesday were slapped with Strayhorn bumper stickers). He made it clear that Strayhorn did not fill boxes to the brim. “If she had not been so hungry for media attention, we would not have had to waste time consolidating her petitions into a more usable format. By trying to get a bigger play in the media, she has made the process more time-consuming for our office.”
The retort from Brad McClellan, the comptroller’s son, mentions the outsized burden of paper:
“Try organizing one box full or carrying one full,” McClellan said. “It’s a shame they waste time doing this cheap partisan attack.”

Kinky’s campaign noted that they would (and did) bring their signatures in 11 tightly filled boxes and would bring plenty of muscle to carry the boxes.

Re: Rupert and Clinton

Thanks to an observant reader*:
Fox News’ Neil Cavuto has an interview with Murdoch online.
Here’s the clip about Rupert and Clinton:

CAVUTO: There’s a fear that Republicans are going to lose the game in November, that they’re going to lose the House, as a distinct possibility, maybe even the Senate, in a rout. Do you see that?
MURDOCH: I think it’s possible. I think the chances are, they will get their act together.
It’s ridiculous. Consumer confidence is high. There’s no real unemployment. The economy is booming. And, usually, people will vote according to the hip pocket nerve. And, on that basis, they would be increasing. But, somehow…
CAVUTO: Why aren’t they doing that?
MURDOCH: Somehow, the White House is not getting it across to the people that they’re responsible with their economic policies.
And it’s amazing how well we’re absorbing the price of oil, which I think speaks tremendously for the efficiency, increasing efficiency, of American industry.
CAVUTO: I would be remiss if, while you were still here, I didn’t bring up Hillary Clinton. Everyone is talking about this fund-raiser you’re doing for her.
(LAUGHTER)
CAVUTO: What is going on with that?
MURDOCH: It’s going to be a very small fund-raiser, people in this building. I hope you will come.
And I think she’s been a good senator. And you know, we don’t agree on a lot of things, of course. But she’s going to get reelected here. There’s no opposition. There’s no Republican Party in New York state any longer, it would seem.
And I think, you know, she’s doing very well for us and for — I’m talking, parochially, for New York state.
CAVUTO: How about as president? Would she make a good president?
MURDOCH: Well, that’s a different question. I don’t even know that she’s going to run.

*(I wonder what name I should give my readers. Front Burner says, Front Burnians or members of the FB Nation. Strangers might be a little unwelcoming. Any ideas?)