All the President's Books

Karl Rove has provided us with a list of some of President Bush's reading material from the past several years.

Regardless of your political affiliations, I think we'd all agree it is commendable and necessary that people in positions of great leadership be well read, aware of both the contemporary and historical contexts they lead in.

HT: Justin Taylor

True Student Athletes

A fantastic article by the Star Tribune, "Division III: Playing for the love of sports, not money" details the joys and hardships of Division III athletics, the last vestige of the pure "student athlete" and amateur sports.

Food 4 Thought - Church in Power or in Peril

New blog idea:

Periodically I'm going to post quotes that I've found particularly thought provoking. I'd love to hear your comments or responses to them.

Our first quote came from Church History class here at the Pastor's College.

“The Church persecuted has always been the Church pure, and therefore the Church powerful. The Church patronized has always been the Church in peril, and very often the Church paralyzed.“
G. Campbell Morgan, The Acts of the Apostles, p. 465.

Top Google Searches - 2008

Interesting list from Google Zeitgeist about the top searches in 2008:

Fastest Rising (U.S.)

1. obama
2. facebook
3. att
4. iphone
5. youtube
6. fox news
7. palin
8. beijing 2008
9. david cook
10. surf the channel

    Fastest Rising (Global)

    1. sarah palin
    2. beijing 2008
    3. facebook login
    4. tuenti
    5. heath ledger
    6. obama
    7. nasza klasa
    8. wer kennt wen
    9. euro 2008
    10. jonas brothers

Christmas Gift Ideas

Full Disclosure: This post is a totally selfish plug for Christmas gifts...but then again, you have not because you ask not!!

Just a reminder about my favorite gift: Books

So a quick reminder about my wish lists (always displayed on the right of the blog) at Amazon.

Theology & Non-Fiction

Fiction & Entertainment

Merry Christmas

Charlie, Check the Ego...

An interesting article at ESPN.com by Gene Wojciechowski.

His advice to Charlie Weis, now that he didn't get the axe for a lackluster first 4 years at Notre Dame: "Learn Humility"

One caveat, I'm not sure Gene's tone is exactly what we'd call humility in action.