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Month: April, 2006

new news

I’m pretty sure this will come as a surprise to most, if not all five of my readers. As I mentioned in my last entry, I’m going to Brenham this summer. I may or may not have mentioned that I have zero plans for what the days after Brenham hold. Well through a series of [...]

tha’s straight gutta’

As many of you know, and as perhaps more of you do not know, I’m going to work in Brenham this summer. I’ll be doing inner-city mission work there for ten weeks. For those of you who think “Brenham” and “inner-city” do not belong in the same sentence, allow me to relieve you of your [...]

free time

Remember that previous post where I saw Billy Graham and his homeboys? Well after that ceremony was over, I had about 2 hours of free time before a meeting that I decided to spend on campus. And, seeing that I already had my camera, I went ahead and took some sunset campus pictures. Before I [...]

Bush, Graham, Osteen and Oliver

On Monday, April 10th I was pretty blessed to be in the same room as all the religious greats of our time: Rev. Billy Graham, the Holy Ghost, Michael W. Smith, Joel Osteen, and President George Bush Sr. Ok, so Joel isn’t one of the greats, nor was a really even excited to be in [...]

save the trees!

I would consider myself a sort of pseudo-conservationist, a false-environmentalist, if you will. You see, I deeply sympathize with those who hold strong concerns for our over consumption of our environment. The reason I feel it necessary to tack on the “pseudo” prefix to my title is that I just don’t carry out my convictions [...]

book review vol. three: Velvet Elvis

I know it’s hard to believe, but face it kids: I’ve actually read three entire books in the past month. Those of you who know what a poor reader I am are still re-reading the first sentence of this blog in disbelief, and will continue to do so until they get tired and close their [...]