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Bella

I reviewed Bella last year. Touching movie.

This is from BreakPoint about Bella being used in prisons with some heartwarming results:

Since the movie won the People’s Choice Award in 2007 at the Toronto Film Festival, and was released later that year, efforts have been underway to get the movie into all crisis pregnancy centers across America. But according to an article in the National Catholic Register, new efforts are underway to get this life-changing film into prisons across America. The cook, Jose, is a great example of a man whose life has been devastated by a mistake, but who has used that mistake to turn his life around and do something redemptive with the days he has left. I think this film could have just as big an impact in the prison community as it has in the community of crisis care, where initial reports say that over 100 people have contacted the Bella production company to say that they decided to keep their baby as a result of seeing the film.

Did you watch V last night?

Did you like it?

I thought it was pretty good.

Joe is back in the emergency room!

*sigh*

blog comments

I got home and sat down at the computer with a snack to go through Google Reader for the first time since about 5 a.m.

One of the early blogs I hit had 17 posts! Remember that’s just since 5 a.m. I may hit 17 posts some weeks

But when I have hundreds of feeds pop up, I always go to my favorites first to see what they have going on. I’m frequently amazed at the depth of comments and the conversations that happen after the post. TC and Nick both frequently get great comments that turn into really good conversations. Peter has one today. Thirty-nine comments when I hit it. It’s on heaven and when Christians will arrive at the pearly gates. Very good discussion!

Protractors and the elementary student

OK, in secondary math, they came to me with this knowledge. Oh, I wish I’d had a camera.

My one day lesson will now be two.

“I’m not a fan of books”

From the New Yorker:

I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book’s autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books. I like to get information from doing stuff like actually talking to people and living real life.
—Kanye West, promoting his book “Thank You and You’re Welcome.”

I think I’ll help him out and not buy his.

Prayers please

Our youngest son had an emergency appendectomy in the middle of the night. No word yet on how he is.

Tomorrow’s lesson on angles



Working on Classroom Routines

The workshop I went to last week was for a program called CHAMPS.

C – conversation

H – help

A – activity

M – movement

P – participation

There is a routine for everything during the day. Well, I already had a routine for everything during the day, but I hadn’t written them down much less in this form. So that’s what I’ve been doing this evening.

Each chart spans two pages (+ the line for S which is at the end of the document) and I’m going to cut and paste them onto double sized construction paper and have them laminated. I keep thinking I’ve forgotten something . . .

I am Legend

Nick’s got a discussion going on about vampire movies in which I am Legend comes up.

If you haven’t read the short story and you are a sci-fi fan, do. It’s great!

Nick mentioned an alternate ending to the movie that I didn’t know about. I saw the movie at the movies (ha, that doesn’t usually happen!), and then it kept coming on Cinemax, so I never rented it.

You can see the alternate ending here.

Here’s the 1964 version with Vincent Price:

WooHoo! the top 50 is out

I missed a few months, but this one came out on the weekend

Straight from The Top 50 Bilbiobloggers (all the top 50 were in bold, so I italicized the ones I’ve been reading on a regular basis. Check them out!) congrats to everyone on the list. AND please go view the whole list. Lots of really good blogs listed besides these sitting on top.

So here are the Top 50 Biblioblogs, complete with runners-up, for October 2009:

Rank	Prev.	+ / -	Blogger	Blog Name	Alexa Ranking
1	1	-	Jim West	Jim West	70,585
2	2	-	Joel L. Watts	Church of Jesus Christ, The	94,324
3	3	-	Matt Dabbs	Kingdom Living	226,058
4	36	32	Jeremy Thompson	Free Old Testament Audio Website Blog	239,040
5	5	-	Mark Goodacre	NT Blog	266,552
6	20	14	Ferrell Jenkins	Ferrell’s Travel Blog	269,277
7	15	8	John Hobbins	Ancient Hebrew Poetry	279,443
8	16	8	Jim Linville	Dr Jim’s Thinking Shop and Tea Room	280,504
9	4	-5	Jeff Oien	Scripture Zealot	285,934
10	28	18	Stephen Smuts	Biblical Paths	291,969
11	11	-	Henry Neufeld	Participatory Bible Study Blog	294,692
12	13	1	Peter M. Lopez	Beauty of the Bible	310,529
13	8	-5	James McGrath	Exploring Our Matrix	348,998
14	6	-8	Daniel O. McClellan	Maklelan	349,600
15	12	-3	Scott Bailey	Scotteriology	367,833
16	19	3	Dave Black	Dave Black Online	387,734
17	9	-8	Josh  Mann	For the Sake of Truth	412,539
18	10	-8	Nick Norelli	Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth	433,541
19	24	5	Daniel and Tonya	Hebrew and Greek Reader	472,411
20	25	5	T.C. Robinson	New Leaven	496,840
21	26	5	Doug Chaplin	Clay Boy	506,610
22	14	-8	Brandon Wason	Sitz im Leben	513,973
23	32	9	Michael S. Heiser	Naked Bible, The, PaleoBabble, UFO Religions, Every Thought Captive	622,603
24	70	46	Michael Barber, Brant Pitre & John Bergsma	Sacred Page, The	684,119
25	37	12	Chris Heard	Higgaion	684,649
26	7	-19	Airton José da Silva	Observatório Bíblico	695,719
27	35	8	Claude Mariottini	Claude Mariottini	716,017
28	155	127	Karyn Traphagen	Boulders 2 Bits	720,190
29	38	9	Jim Getz	Ketuvim	735,568
30	98	68	Michael W. Halcomb	Pisteuomen	739,059
31	33	2	Neil Godfrey	Vridar	796,940
32	17	-15	Mike Whitenton	Ecce Homo	922,354
33	42	9	Michael F. Bird, Joel Willitts	ΕΥΑΓΓΕΛΙΟΝ / Evangelion	943,832
34	53	19	Jason	Eis Doxan	944,397
35	54	19	Tommy Wasserman, et al	Evangelical Textual Criticism	966,031
36	23	-13	Rachel Marszalek	Re-vis.e Re-form	996,397
37	22	-15	Pat McCullough	Kata ta biblia	997,159
38	45	7	Tyler F. Williams	Codex	1,005,148
39	46	7	John Anderson	Hesed we ‘emet	1,015,842
40	18	-22	Robert Cargill	Official Blog of Robert R. Cargill, The	1,017,692
41	66	25	Loren Rosson	Busybody, The	1,037,647
42	-	-	Rick Mansfield	This Lamp	1,042,115
43	73	30	Chris Tilling	Chrisendom	1,047,889
44	52	8	David Ker, et al	Better Bibles Blog	1,054,480
45	50	5	Gavin Rumney	Otagosh	1,070,415
46	56	10	Jimmy Doyle	jkdoyle.com	1,071,249
47	44	-3	Andy Naselli	Thoughts on Exegetical, Biblical, Historical, Systematic, and Practical Theology	1,077,125
48	40	-8	Mandy and Calvin Park	Floppy Hat, The	1,091,440
49	171	122	Thomas Verenna	Musings of Thomas Verenna, The	1,109,095
50	91	41	Kevin Sam	New Epistles	1,154,078

Desiring God – Free audio download

Desiring God is the free audio download of the month from Christian Audio

 

edited: OK, I’m having trouble getting it to come up for $0.00. Last month, that’s what happened with the freebie. Just a head’s up.

So Time changes again

I hate it when the time changes. We have the same time regardless of what time we say it is. The number of daylight hours are no different. I understand the history, but the continuation of this practice makes no sense to me.

This is an interesting site with some trivia about this awful practice. (the clouds they use to navigate are irritating IMHO, but the information is still good.) I especially like the one that said the $7 million in proposed savings swayed all of Indiana to observe DST when in fact it ended up costing them over $8 million.

Down with time change!

Racism and the Great Commission Resurgence

That’s the title of Russell Moore’s post today. He points to an article from the Baptist Standard that says some missionaries who adopted children of different ethnicities cannot speak in some churches.

The newspaper says that a missionary couple were forbidden, by official church action, to speak in some churches because of the fact that their Tanzanian-born children are of a different ethnicity than the people church.

Utterly astounding if true and knowing people, I’m sure it is.

He’s got some good thoughts on the matter like this:

When Joel Rainey, a church planting strategist from Maryland, read the article, he posted the following on my Facebook wall: “The church that refused to let this couple speak because of their racist ideology should be disfellowshipped at the associational, state, and national level.”

He went on to say that white supremacist churches (or, I’m sure he’d agree, black supremacist churches, for that matter) are no different than congregations disfellowshipped for supporting sexual liberationist ideologies, “disobedient to Scripture in order to appeal to the darker elements of culture.”

I could not agree more.