Necessary Roughness

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Archive for January, 2006

What’s In A Verse?
Thursday, January 26th, 2006

Devotions. Memories of parents reading to their kids. Some Lutheran grandparents and great-grandparents still have their copy of Little Visits with God that they might dust off for the kids come age 3 or 4. Most devotions I’ve seen regardless of denomination have a nice moral story and that verse at the end that [...]

Beggars Can’t Be Choosers, or Can They?
Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

BBC reports that the French government has begun a crackdown on pork soup served in soup kitchens. The government accuses Bloc Identitaire, Soulidarieta, and other groups of discriminating against Muslims and Jews.
The websites for these groups are hilarious to read through Google Translate. It’s hard to tell whether they are off the deep end. [...]

Road Map to Lawbreaking
Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

The GOP Blog “The Loft” provides a link to this story from the Arizona Republic.
A group in Tucson, “Humane Borders,” designed maps of the Arizona desert, with rescue beacons and water stations. These maps will be given out by Mexico’s human rights agency to anyone willing to run the desert and enter the United [...]

Weekend Update
Monday, January 23rd, 2006

Starting with the latest, to the earliest:
Thanks to the Aardvark, I’ve now updated my blogroll with the blog of Rev. Tom Baker, who hosts a terrific show called Law & Gospel on KFUO-AM. Justification by faith alone may be the article by which the church stands or falls, but rightly dividing Law & Gospel also [...]

Killing My Degree Softly
Friday, January 20th, 2006

An AP report on CBS News summarizes a literacy study of college students:
More than 50 percent of students at four-year schools and more than 75 percent at two-year colleges lacked the skills to perform complex literacy tasks.
That means they could not interpret a table about exercise and blood pressure, understand the arguments of newspaper editorials, [...]