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A mishmash of thoughts on religion, life, technology, and whatnot.
February 13th 2010
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Critical Success, Commercial Failure – Cops: Sumatanga

For the last few years, I've come up with a camp rules video for Summer camps. After a couple of years of milking the Turkey Vulture video (part two was never uploaded, I need to find that one), we stole a concept from another camp and went crazy with it. I ...
January 28th 2010
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Delusional Alabama Fans

From August 2007 MSNBC.com article Alabama gaga over overrated Saban: Crimson Tide pinning national title dreams on good — not great — coach by By Cary Estes The Crimson Tide went 6-7 last season and has not won a national championship in 15 years. Yet a number of Alabama fans truly ...
January 17th 2010
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The Nooma Video I Couldn’t Watch…Until Now — Matthew

As big a fan as I am of Rob Bell, there's one Nooma video that I just never could watch. Episode #12, Matthew. I guess it's just that I couldn't really related to it. I had never unexpectedly lost someone that I was more than just an acquaintance with. I guess ...
December 30th 2009
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The Best Music of 2009

Favorite Albums This Year: • Cracker - Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey Cracker was one my favorite bands in college. In the 90's they released some of the best albums of the decade. Catchy songs with quirky subjects. In the 00's, they seemed to have lost their direction...until ...
December 30th 2009
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Naked in the Airport

We spend $75 billion on security, and we can't keep a guy on a list from getting on a plane? (or can we?) So now instead, we're going to end up with these nude scanners in every airport and Lieberman says we should be considering a pre-emptive strike on Yemen. Someone ...
November 24th 2009
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Building a School Website

At work, we've been working on telling and collecting stories about the school. So many great things happen that those of us who aren't in classroom don't hear about. Each of us has had the responsibilty of writing a few pieces, so I decided to do a piece about how ...
November 21st 2009
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The Cost of Weight Loss

Saw a report on NBC Nightly News this week about obesity in Appalachia and how in some areas, more the 40% of the population is obese. The Memphis area is one of those areas, it being the unofficial capital of Mississippi and all. One of the things that the doctor interview ...
November 19th 2009
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Too much for 140 characters

You know, I just haven't had that much to say lately that I couldn't accomplish in 140 characters or less. I hope there's a point to this one. Writing I need to write a couple of pieces for work tomorrow, so consider this a warm-up. I minored in English in college, but ...
October 5th 2009
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Wrestling with Theology

And I do mean wrestling.... We just finished up going through Rob Bell's Velvet Elvis in our Sunday School class this last week. It's one of the books that was very formative for me a few years ago. I hope the rest of the class got as much out of it as ...
September 29th 2009
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More War Mongering

"War is the health of the state." Randolph Bourne The election of Obama was just what the neocons needed to continue their war mongering. When it was Bush's war(s), the anti-war left was active, now that it's Obama's war(s), the anti-war left is completely silent. Turns out all they really wanted was ...

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Winston Baccus is:

trying to follow Christ, husband of Jamie, father of Anna, a senior designer who does web and print work, an alumnus of the University of Alabama, interested in the emerging church, a Mac fan, a Camp Sumatanga junkie, a program coordinator for high school camps in the United Methodist Church, a music snob, a budding oenophile, too busy to update his resume/portfolio, debt-free*, a geek

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February 23rd 2010
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Ron Paul 2012?

I think that the neoconservative pundits underestimated the Ron Paul Revolution's staying power. Over the weekend, while I was working at a retreat, I walked in front of a tv screen and was pleasantly surprised to see that Dr. Paul won the CPAC straw poll. Immediately, the neocons in the Hannity and ...
February 15th 2010
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America has an Empire Problem

At its height, the Roman Empire had 47 major military bases scattered throughout the lands under its control. When the British were running their empire, they had 36 bases. What happened to these empires? The cost of maintaining them bankrupted them. They were unsustainable. We don't like to call ourselves an empire, ...
February 13th 2010
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Critical Success, Commercial Failure – Cops: Sumatanga

For the last few years, I've come up with a camp rules video for Summer camps. After a couple of years of milking the Turkey Vulture video (part two was never uploaded, I need to find that one), we stole a concept from another camp and went crazy with it. I ...
January 28th 2010
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Delusional Alabama Fans

From August 2007 MSNBC.com article Alabama gaga over overrated Saban: Crimson Tide pinning national title dreams on good — not great — coach by By Cary Estes The Crimson Tide went 6-7 last season and has not won a national championship in 15 years. Yet a number of Alabama fans truly ...
January 27th 2010
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A Landmark Day in Technology?

I love how some people are mocking the Apple tablet buildup, point out that Microsoft has had tablets out for years. Yes, and there were mp3 players before the iPod, but which one is considering the ultimate version of the technology that caused it to take root? And there were smartphones before ...

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