The deadline for entries in the JakeBouma.com 4.0 prize giveaway is 8:00am on Thursday, October 25. I have received lots of entries so far, but there are still some people who have signed up for email updates that haven't sent me the secret word. If you haven't done so yet, enter the contest and/or contact me to secure your entry.
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, which was adapted for screen by Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers. "Where the Wild Things Are is filled with richly imagined psychological detail, and the screenplay for this live-action film simply becomes a longer and more moving version of what Maurice Sendak's book has always been at heart: a book about a lonely boy leaving the emotional terrain of boyhood behind."
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To celebrate the redesign of JakeBouma.com (sneak preview above), I am holding a prize giveaway as a way of saying "thank you" to everyone who reads and supports this blog. Check it:
The prizes:
How to enter:
You will receive one entry for subscribing to my website either or . In the first update, you'll see a secret word at the bottom (e.g., "The secret word is _______"). Just email me the secret word for your entry into the giveaway.
You will receive two entries for blogging on your own website about this giveaway. You can describe the giveaway any way you want to, but you must link back to this post from yours. After you've posted, email me the URL so I can verify and add your entries.
To maximize your chances of winning, subscribe to JakeBouma.com or , then email me the secret word, and write a blog post of your own about the giveaway. You can have a maximum of three entries.
Details:
The deadline for entries is Wednesday, October 24th 2007, and the winners will be announced here on Friday, October 26th 2007. Winners will be selected using a random number generator ().
There is a maximum of one prize per person, and prize sponsors are more than welcome to enter the draw (but obviously not to win your own gift). When you submit your entries, feel free to let me know which item(s) you would prefer, and if you're selected as a winner, I'll do my best to award you that particular prize. Good luck... and tell your friends!
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. "His references to Jesus as his personal savior align with evangelical vernacular. Although it is consistent with Mormon doctrine, evangelicals caution that this is potentially dangerous territory for Mr. Romney, because their conception of who Jesus Christ is differs markedly from what Mormons believe."
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Today is , a day when "bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone's mind." This year's issue is the environment. Participating bloggers are encouraged to write about any topic relating to environmental issues. Because I have recently been looking for a car, today I'll be writing about making good choices in regards to transportation. To do so, I will be enlisting the help of a wonderful book called .
The aforementioned book lists the following five things as "priority actions for American consumers" in regards to transportation:
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This is part one of a series where I blog through my reading of Brian McLaren's . The entire series is listed below ?
Intro | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Conclusions
In this first section of the book, McLaren delivers the rhetorical device that will shape (I presume) the rest of the book. He asks, "What do the life and teachings of Jesus have to say about the most critical global problems in the world today" (12)?
In response to this question, McLaren makes a two-fold point: (1) Christians (and followers of the other "big" world religions) have failed to address the world's most pressing crises because (2) the church has either focused all of its energy and attention on ideological debates (playing the "blame game"), or the church has become too "specialized" -- or both.
You only have to have a passing familiarity with Jesus and his message to know there was a special place in his heart for the poor and oppressed. Why, then, has the church been so unsuccessful in addressing the issues of povery and oppression?
"We seemed polarized by our ideological diagnoses of the causes and cures of poverty, and even worse, we were paralyzed by our polarization, and so the poor continued to suffer - trapped by their poverty and our polarizing, paralyzing arguments about poverty" (16).
We're too caught up in pointing fingers and debating who/what our fingers should be pointed at that we have failed to make any substantive progress.
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