The Olfactory and Christianity
By: Kim Moreland|Published: March 9, 2010 3:22 PM
My family assures me that my sense of smell is both a blessing and curse. My olfactory sense is excellent: I can sniff out the smallest hints of things in the air or food. My summation is that a lot of things are stinky. You want to find out what herbs or spices someone used in a dish, call me. You want to know if food is on the cusp of spoiling, I’m the girl for you.
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By: Gina Dalfonzo|Published: March 9, 2010 12:07 PM
If it takes at least three examples to make a trend, as the saying goes, I've been noticing a trend lately that disturbs me. I'm speaking of the video clips that keep popping up online of pastors insulting various groups within the Christian church.
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By: Billy Atwell|Published: March 9, 2010 10:22 AM
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READ FULL ARTICLE »Gay D.C. Catholics Feel Like They 'Didn’t Belong Anymore'
By: Billy Atwell|Published: March 9, 2010 9:03 AM
This is so annoying. They force an agenda down our throats and win the ability to get married (though no orthodox church recognizes the unions), and now they look at 2000 years of consistent teaching as if it just popped up yesterday? These are fake Catholics. They parade in front of NPR reporters, establish that they live in sin, and sudden feel the Catholic Church suddenly doesn’t want them? Why would the Catholic Church not want them, when the Church believes that forgiveness of sin is their only route to repentance? The Catholic Church sure doesn’t want a person to persist in serious sin, but the person has never been rejected. This misunderstanding of Catholic teaching was my first indication that this person is no “practicing Catholic” (and the fact that she was interviewed by NPR).
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The Point Blog gets its wings
By: Alan Eason|Published: March 8, 2010 5:26 PM
I don't usually post on The Point Blog in my official capacity -- Internet Director for Prison Fellowship Ministries -- but I'll do so today. I'd like to tip my hat to our Breakpoint editor, Travis McSherley; our editor for The Point Blog, Gina Dalfonzo; and our developers, Metalake LLC, and Alliant Studios.
The new blog platform you are using today is very exciting. It is much more than just a blog. It is a custom-built dynamic content engine, which can (and will) be used for many types of content across the family of web sites that make up Prison Fellowship, Breakpoint and The Colson Center. It is designed to help build community around great ideas and compelling stories. Besides having much better formatting and style, this module offers two great tools I know you are going to love.
READ FULL ARTICLE »And the winner is . . .
By: Anne Morse|Published: March 8, 2010 4:26 PM
A few of us were considering drafting, as a joke, a BreakPoint script about Oscar dresses just for the fun of hearing Chuck say words like "taffeta" and "Vera Wang" and "low-cut." But we couldn't think of a worldview angle....
The subject came up when Dave the Swede caught me clicking through pictures of Oscar-nominated actresses in their glittering garb (I was on a break!).
READ FULL ARTICLE »Hollywood Sinks to (Another) New Low
By: Kathryn Wiley|Published: March 8, 2010 3:44 PM
Chalk up another great moment in Tinseltown’s history: The opening number of the 52nd Oscars featured TV great Neil Patrick Harris singing about prison rape. Well, that’s an exaggeration: Harris is more of a mediocre actor. And the song and dance wasn’t just about prison rape, he only mentioned it once.
But that was more than enough.
READ FULL ARTICLE »Collateral Damage
By: Anne Morse|Published: March 8, 2010 12:57 PM
New York Times columnist Nicolas Kristof rightly highlights how letting our charity dollars follow the TV cameras can harm long-standing charities that don't stop needing our financial support when there's an earthquake in Haiti or Central America. Kristof quotes from a letter he received from a friend who works with an AIDS foundation in Cambodia.
"As soon as we heard the tragic news from Haiti," the friend writes, "We knew that, once again, our clients too would be 'collateral damage' of that catastrophe.....The very groups on whom small foundations like mine rely to keep us going shift their attention and their fundraising energies to whatever happens to be the calamity of the month....Tragedies such as the Haitian earthquake should inspire us all to increase our charitable giving and not simply to redirect our donations to the area of most immediate need.'"
But they often don't--and nonprofits like Prison Fellowship, and their clients, not to mention their employees, end up getting hurt.
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