Friday Roundup

CREATIVE EMERGENCY HOUSING
It actually looks livable for the longterm -- solar, gravity-fed water system, A/C... It's amazing what can be done with a simple cargo container. See also the Auburn University Pirogue Project site.


GUAM PHOTOS
I've added a Flickr photo badge to the sidebar. Click on it for access to the photos we took when in Guam.


NASA'S WORLD WIND
Google Earth has competition from NASA -- and they do the moon, too.


FREE STANFORD LECTURES...
through the magic of podcast downloads.


THE ECONOMICS OF CHURCH ATTENDANCE
Church-going fattens your wallet -- which, of course, is exactly what it's all about.


EPISCOPAL CHURCH LIBERALS
PLAN TO SEIZE CONSERVATIVE ASSETS
A liberal Episcopal group is crafting a strategy to disenfranchise about 16 conservative bishops if the denomination's pivotal General Convention next year in Columbus, Ohio, results in a church split.

Informally named the "Day After" for the aftermath of the June 13-21 event, the strategy outlines a way to file canonical charges against conservative bishops, unseat them from their dioceses, have interim bishops waiting to replace them and draft lawsuits ready to file before secular courts for possession of diocesan property.

The strategy was revealed in a leaked copy of minutes drafted at a Sept. 29 meeting in Dallas of a 10-member steering committee for Via Media, a network of 13 liberal independent Episcopal groups. Link


SALVATION OR DISCIPLESHIP?
Scot McKnight says that he has given up on both. Read the WHOLE story (UPDATE: Just to make things clear -- that's a teaser for a great post by Scot.)