Random

• Just a few more days to register your personal Obama approval rating. I'm sure that all the DC insiders are watching, so tell them what you think! See left column.

• Don't miss Horace Glump's new blog. ~ link

• The CNMI wants Gitmo prisoners. They're really hurting up there north of us. ~ link

• I re-read an article from CT (March '08) -- "What Makes a Church Missional?" by J. Todd Billings. It's got a good little history and highlights some of the unique streams of thought -- some of which are kind of out there -- some of which have attempted to hijack the term. ~ link

• Kurt Fredrickson passed his PhD dissertation defense -- which makes him a double Fuller doc. This time he did his work in the School of Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary -- some emerging postmodern missional church piffle. Congratulations!

• The January edition of Christianity Today arrived in January. A Guam first.

• Since we're planning to move to Arizona to start a new congregation I'm tuning into the AZ stats and USA Today is reporting that according to a new Gallup Poll only 61% of Arizonans consider themselves to be "religious" in some way shape or form. Arizona is in the bottom half of the US in this regard. ~ link

• On Wednesday I mentioned that spinach might be the answer to citrus greening. Now, Florida researchers have come up with a biopesticide that is effective against the insect that spreads the bacteria. And it will be available this year! Cool. ~ link

• Enjoy!