Random

• Gas below $2 in Des Moines ~ link

• Congo getting battered again -- thousands on the move to escape fighting ~ link

• Earl Palmer has retired after 52 years. Earl is a Presbyterian pastor and was one of my teachers at New College Berkeley. He is a delightful and engaging preacher/teacher. ~ link

• The Christian Science Monitor is dropping its print edition -- the first nationally circulated daily to do so. Look for more to follow. There will be times when I'll miss the print editions -- but mostly not. ~ link

• Dr Witherington continues his blog-ture on the postmodern mind. "...And the ultimate elephant in the room problem is disembodiment of the education. But then disembodiment is one of the spiritual features of post-modernity--- the Gnostic severing of the spiritual from the religious, of the spiritual from the historical, of the spiritual from the traditional." ~ link

• The Rays are out. Next year. ~ link