• William Graham Tullian Tchividjian, the grandson of Billy Graham, has been invited to candidate to become the senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church. If he does end up with the call he'd be bringing the nearby congregation he started with him. Sounds like a net loss to me. ~ link
• Gannett says they'll shut down the Tucson Citizen if they can't find a buyer. ~ link
• Kent flies first thing in the morning. He's off to California for a week, then to Korea for 6 months. We'll miss him. We went to the Korean consulate this morning and by this afternoon Kent had a visa in his passport.
• This is not a good sign, especially in a troubled economy. The total tab for the presidential inauguration will be around $150 million. ~ link
• Past inaugural festivities ~ link
• My first class session of the semester starts in an hour -- Evangelism and Discipleship -- 6-9:30 p.m., Tuesdays.
- 2005, George W. Bush, est. $40 million
- 2001, George W. Bush, est. $30 million
- 1997, Bill Clinton, est. $29 million
- 1993, Bill Clinton, est. between $25 million and $30 million
- 1989, George H.W. Bush, est. $30 million
- 1985, Ronald Reagan, est. $20 million
- 1981, Ronald Reagan, est. $16.3 million
- 1977, Jimmy Carter, est. $3.5 million
- 1973, Richard Nixon, est. $4 million
• Worship IS mission ~ link
2 comments:
tucson citizen... wow... so much for the era of JOAs...
Yeah, $140 million is a lot. But I wonder how much went for crowd control/Secret Service/etc. Any corresponding figures for numbers in attendance?
I wouldn't have wanted to be one of those responsible for preventing the crazies from doing their things today!
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