pat loughery

Photo project:

Photographers from The Dallas Morning News, the Houston Chronicle, The Galveston County Daily News and the Associated Press covered the return of Galveston residents to their homes, almost two weeks after Hurricane Ike devastated the area.
Traffic backed up for 10 miles and returning residents were faced a lack of drinking water, reliable electricity, medical care and sewer service. (18 images)

Life-changing trick here. Very fun video also.

sacred music in a contemporary shape, from the Speaking of Faith podcast

These guys are my news sources

In the introduction of “The Jesus of Suburbia” author Mike Erre asks a series of challenging questions relating to modern American Christianity:

We preach Christianity, but do we really preach Christ?

We call people to serve the church, but do we call them to serve the poor?

We teach them to know sound doctrine, but do we teach people to center their whole lives on him?

Do we teach people to have a commitment to the Bible or to a relationship with its author?

Do we as Western Christians reflect Jesus or obscure him?

Epic post by Bob on the reality of the current economic crisis and the priorities of the Kingdom of God

There's a few realy good ones in there that I need to use.