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.
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.
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.







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