Serving Bread

I picked up the book Is belief in God, good, bad or irrelevant? A professor and a punk rocker discuss science, religion, naturalism & Christianity at 2pm and a few hours later finished reading it. Preston Jones, a professor at a Christian college, strikes up a relationship with Greg Graffin, frontman, singer and songwriter for [...]

Can you locate Iraq on a map? If you can’t, don’t worry, you’re in the majority! Only 40% of young Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 can pinpoint Iraq on a map–the country where we are at war. Now that is a marked improvement from the 14% in 2002, so you gotta give [...]

The Nielsen Media Research (the company that tracks what people watch and provides the rating numbers) said that the average household has the TV on 8 hours and 14 minutes each day. This is up 3 minutes from last year. That’s a hard working TV. Considering that we sleep something like 7 or 8 hours [...]

This should have been a front page lead story, but instead it was buried deep in the newspaper. Starbucks is raising most beverage prices by a nickel starting October 3. Citing the increased costs of fuel (wait, aren’t gas prices starting to come down?) and labor, the company whose stores are like a second home [...]

I have recently had a ‘friendly’ exchange with a good friend over a link he had sent me of a 34 minute video that raises scores of questions about 9/11. The essence of the video is to raise doubt about whether what we have heard is really what happened on 9/11. Although these theories may [...]

Before being a father, I had this impression that babies cry. They cry all the time. They cry for no reason. They cry for reasons that I’m too slow to comprehend. They just cry. But after a few weeks and months with Layla, I was (pleasantly) surprised by how little she cried. Sure, she cries [...]

I have always been interested in politics. I’m not sure if it’s the righteous anger within me or my Middle Eastern blood (try finding a Middle Eastern who doesn’t care or have a “strong” opinion on politics). So I’ve been thinking that I should run for some office. But for what? I can’t run for [...]

We made quite a few phone-calls yesterday to talk to freshmen who have shown interest in being a part of our ministry. We got through to many people’s voicemails (which was expected). For a handful of folks, their voicemail greeting wasn’t the typical, “Hi, you’ve reached Olaf, please leave your name and number and I’ll [...]

Just a few days ago I had the AC on full blast and complaining about the weather in the Valley. Today, the temperature must have been in the 60s and 70s. I was wearing pants, socks, and shoes, and had Layla in a jacket. For those who live outside of Southern California, it is not [...]

18 And he said, “Take the arrows,” and he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, “Strike the ground with them.” And he struck three times and stopped. 19 Then the man of God was angry with him and said, “You should have struck five or six times; then you would have [...]