Random

~ The good thing about running a skeleton crew on campus is that if someone drops a box full of local mangoes by the office those of us making up the faithful remnant are kinda' obligated to take a lot home. I mean, they'd spoil there in the box if we didn't.

~ More evidence that contrary to what I was taught in college psychology and communication classes, men talk just as much as women. Each gender uses an average of 16,000 words per day. No difference.

~ The audit is in. Sigh. No surprises. Guam is still a fiscal disaster zone.

~ Are we paying more for a gallon of gas on hotter days? It has something to do with expansion in the heat. Yes, someone is suing the oil companies.

~ India's daily newspaper in handwritten calligraphy

~ Inter-Varsity has taken the Covenant's church-planting model and contextualized it for starting campus chapters. That's exciting! However, the truth of the matter is that we got the model from our generous cousins in the Baptist General Conference and contextualized it for our needs. They got it directly from Jesus -- I suppose.

~ Happy Birthday Dad!

~ July 6, 1957 -- 50 years ago today -- John met Paul and the rest is history. They're celebrating in Liverpool this week. But I don't see any of the surviving Beatles on the concert lists.

~ Randall just got home from two weeks in the UK and it sounds like he had a confusing experience.

~ Washington Post article: "Affordable Care at India's Private Hospitals Draws Growing Number of Foreigners." In our part of the world the same thing happens with people who can't afford American health care except islanders tend to go to Manila in the Philippines. They've got some top notch doctors and for outsiders it's very affordable.

~ Covenant Factoid -- Old time Covenant Church people will notice that the cover of Newsweek includes a photo of a picture which was originally drawn by Covenanter Warner Sallman for the cover of the denominational magazine, The Covenant Companion. I haven't read the Newsweek yet but the photo, as small as it is, caught my eye. The picture of Christ sits right under that of Barack Obama. The story it highlights is about "global literacy."

~ Dr R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, has been arguing in a very public way that Mormonism cannot be considered part of the Christian faith because it refuses to accept historic Christianity as defined by the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed. Of course, Dr Mohler is correct. Mormons are not Christians in the stream of historical orthodoxy and while there is some common language there is great difference in meaning in a number of critical areas. But then again, when was the last time you heard a Southern Baptist recite the aforementioned creeds? :-)