Archive for December, 2005

December 29, 2005

GBIO in the news

by Josh at 10:31 am

Boston.com, after running several articles about health care reform, has finally published one specifically about GBIO and our involvement in the health care debate that’s going on. The article focuses specificly on Rev. Hurmon Hamiltion and Rabbi Jonah Pesner who together wrote an op-ed piece on health care in August. The article looks [...]

Christmas in Roxbury

by Josh at 9:41 am

I wanted to post about this on Monday, but I’m just now getting the time. There was an article on Boston.com about the completed renovations on the Roxbury Presbyterian Church building and the services held on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
The article, I think, misses the most significant aspects of the weekend festivities. [...]

December 22, 2005

Countering materialism in the holidays

by Josh at 12:10 pm

I’m normally not that interested in David Batstone’s sojomail editorials (much preferring thos by Jim Wallis), but this week his article was very good. He talks about materialism and Christmas and his own family’s particular tradition of taking the money that they would have spent on gifts and travelling someplace together. From the [...]

December 21, 2005

Samson to get haircut

by Josh at 9:23 am

Ok not Samson, but Johnny Damon who has joined the clean cut New York Yankees.
I remember asking someone a couple months ago what Johnny Damon’s hair was worth. He certainly wasn’t getting as much media attention before he grew it out, and likely wouldn’t be making $13 million per year right now if he [...]

December 3, 2005

Theology of Narnia

by Josh at 1:43 pm

I’ve come across a couple articles in the past weeks that talk about the ways that C.S. Lewis’s theology differed from most Evangelical Christians. One article came from Christianity Today (which has published many articles on Lewis lately.) The article is about how Lewis “became a rock star for evangelicals,” and while it [...]

December 2, 2005

Forbes Fictional 15

by Josh at 3:55 pm

I came across this Forbes article that lists the top 15 famously wealthy fictional characters through Mugglnet (which notes that Lucius Malfoy sneaks in at no. 15.) From the site:
To qualify for the Fictional 15, we insisted that members be both fictional (in the sense that we excluded mythological and folkloric figures) and characters [...]