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we’re a year old!

A year ago on Thursday, ZA launched its first three articles. We’re one! It’s been a long year. I’ve had some highs and some lows, and I’m learning a lot along the way. I checked out my stats and I saw:
- 2537 Absolute Unique Visitors
- 9,884 Page views
For web sites, this is a drop in [...]

on the internet: tony dungy visits michael vick

Read about it here…it’s a quick read.

I was snooping around the sports sites this morning when I came across this. Tony Dungy meets Michael Vick one time, but now he’s willing to visit the guy in prison and encourage him.
When Jesus talks about visiting people in prison, I bet this is just about exactly what [...]

discuss: christianity and artificial intelligence

This topic was catalyzed by an interesting article at the New York Times regarding IBM’s attempt to make a computer that can play Jeopardy!. Having created a competitive supercomputer that can play chess, they’ve set their sights higher: A computer that can pull out facts and other subtleties from an answer given on Jeopardy!, and [...]

on the internet: atheism rising

Read “More Atheists Shout It From the Rooftops” at NYTimes.com.
If you can’t read the article, you’ll have to register…but it’s free and pretty quick, so do it!
I’ve come to realize that there isn’t a lot of good news about Christianity that I post to the site. I’ll work on that…if you have any sources for [...]

i upset a friend the other day

I’ve heard a lot of sermons where people talk about how people will let you down, but God never will. They say that when you have relationships with people, we need to know this and accept it with each other. This is a truth that is logical and accepted by me.
But boy, does it stink [...]

on the internet: “changing religion”

Americans not losing their religion, but changing it often - CNN.com.
I buzzed through this article, but I’m not really sure what to make of it. To me, shifting from denomination to denomination isn’t “changing religion,” it’s changing churches.
I grew up in a Methodist church, but since I’ve gone to Robert Morris I’ve been going to [...]

do you lust after asphalt and paper?

Thought for today:
When a lot of Christians talk about heaven, they’ll talk about streets of gold. You know what I’m talking about. We talk about the riches of heaven, so we talk about passages like Revelation 21:18-21. The new Jerusalem is built of gold and encrusted with precious gemstones.
It made me think when I was [...]

i learned a lesson about islam

The event that sparked this happened a few weeks ago, but I wanted to post it because I thought it was an interesting revelation.
There’s a news blog that I read called The Daily Beast. There was an article concerning Islam - the content was irrelevant, but it prompted a Muslim person to make this comment:
In [...]

out of town for the week!

Buzz and I will be in Nicaragua this week (3/8 to 3/15). This means that there will be no update for Wednesday. I had hoped to get them queued up before I left, but this nasty little 8-week course that is finishing really soon (note the time this was posted…I haven’t gone to bed yet!) [...]

update: new anti-spam installed

Hello, Internet audience!
Comment spam is a problem that everyone with a blog or webzine has to face. Every single comment gets filtered so the reader doesn’t know about the problem, but I had 349 spam messages in January and 432 spam messages so far in February ever since I opened up comments to everyone.
Wading through [...]

on the internet: heartbreak in australia

Boundless Line: Heartbreak in Australia.
I had heard about the bush fires (that’s “forest fires” for the unitiated) in Australia, I had heard they were bad, but there had never been a story to humanize the situation. This e-mail from an Aussie named Cate to Boundless was gutwrenching…I almost watered up, something that doesn’t happen too [...]

on the internet: the downside of wealth and power

There’s a site out there called The Daily Beast. Its “Cheat Sheet” is a great, quick way to get the big national and international headlines in one place. They do a lot of editorials, too. Plenty are skippable for numerous reasons, but every once in awhile a gem of a post comes along.
“What the Richest [...]