This Yahoo TV article features other recent footage in which Angus T. Jones advises viewers to stop watching “Two and a Half Men,” a show which he describes as “filth.”
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My church arranged speakers over the four Sundays preceding the national election to facilitate discussion concerning “Christian Faith and this Year’s Election Issues.” Last Sunday, retired North Park University Professor of New Testament, Dr. Cal Katter, focused on the dire economic issue of America’s widening gap between the rich and everyone else. Dr. Katter . . . → Read More: Please Pray Before You Vote, By Mark Erickson How is it that Mavis Staples put a record out and I can’t find it on EPB? Mavis Staples, of the first family of American singers (the Cash-Carter clan is a close second, but cannot sing as well) released an excellent album of mostly Gospel tunes in 2010 called, “You Are not Alone.” . . . → Read More: Mavis Staples and Jeff Tweedy – Wrote a Song For Everyone, By Ron Swanson . . . → Read More: Turlock Hymnathon to Feed Starving Children Amazing. Uncanny. Unlike anything I’ve ever heard. Ya gotta listen. – Peter Stampfel One of my favorite testimonies, always well delivered. Listen: OK, so I don’t usually rant, but this one absolutely kills me. I would simply write this guy off as a harmless old crackpot if there weren’t so many people buying into the utterly reprehensible tripe that he dresses up as wholesome Christian advice. Here he dares to speak of children as though they . . . → Read More: Pat Robertson’s Advice: Don’t Adopt Children, By Peter Olson It was my birthday on August 16th, the same day that Elvis died by chance, and also the day of a friend’s memorial service. Unable to take the day off from work, I did somehow manage to attend the funeral and as I sat down for the service, all I could think was that . . . → Read More: I Beg of You – Live a Life Worthy of Your Calling, By Paul Johnson Maybe there really is a culture war going on. Family Guy made a Seventh Day Adventism joke tonight. It wasn’t offensive. Not really funny, either. But jokes about Seventh Day Adventists are pretty rare. I can’t remember any others, really. The Road to Wellville, maybe? The rest of the show was dedicated to belittling . . . → Read More: War In Heaven, War On Earth – Trailer Behold the 2-minute, sci-fi short film, Secular Quarter 3, which floats UFOs over Israel 100 years from now. It’s excellent, please check it out. Currently, this vid is a semi-finalist for YouTube’s Your Film Festival sponsored by Prometheus director Ridley Scott. Friends of Secular Quarter 3‘s director, David Gidali, are doing outreach to Jewish . . . → Read More: Secular Quarter 3 – Celebrated Short Video Floats Alien Crafts Over Fortified Jerusalem in 2112 Here’s some vintage video of monks chanting & painstakingly drawing sand mandalas among other things. I got to see a performance like this a few years back when a group of monks was in residence at a health food store for a month painting this huge mandala in public. Then one day, of course, . . . → Read More: The Gyuto Monks – Tibetan Tantric Choir, By David Golightly Here’s how this video is described at the site, “This is one of the most poignant and profound messages our youth can hear today. With a culture obsessed with sex, violence and tolerance, there are more and more obstacles standing in the way of our Savior than ever before. Music, media and cultures can . . . → Read More: Dear Pop Culture – A Message to Pop Sensations He was known as “Gentlemen Jim,” and his sound was “countrypolitan.” He died piloting his own plane in a thunderstorm near Nashville on July 31, 1964. He was at the height of his career at the time he died and these tunes are only two out of his string of hits which also included . . . → Read More: Jim Reeves – This World is Not My Home – There’s a Heartache Following Me I have often wondered what East Portland Blog readers think of people, lke me who write religious or spiritual pieces under pen names. I’m sure opinions are as diverse as the EPB readers: serious, misguided, enlightening, hypocritical, boring, WTF! (just being realistic), Oh Please!, Fascinating (one . . . → Read More: Funny Church Signs – How Do East Portland Blog Readers View Religious People? By Lydia Cooper Thanks to Anne Seymour Mette who adds, “Long, Christ-centered, healing and amazing”: http://youtu.be/Rp9tWc35Zhw I recently heard Ted N.C. Wilson on 3ABN talking about the The Great Controversy Project and it inspired me to pass along these links concerning The Great Controversy, which is free online, in text form: http://www.whiteestate.org/books/gc/gc.asp And as an audiobook: http://www.greatcontroversyonline.com/ Also, here is an article about three women whose lives were changed by . . . → Read More: The Great Controversy Nine years ago, I gave a copy of The Message bible to my in-laws. I don’t know if they liked it. When we’re visiting, I will usually read a few passages out of it. Then eight years after I gave it to them, the same copy I gave them became a prop in this . . . → Read More: Ryan Orlanda – A Love Song – Christian Worship Song (Official Music Video) |
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