Postcards from Palookaville

Given the title which the Mad Woman in the Attic has given to today's podcast, and if Tim Keller is the bald, La Diva still hasn't told us if it is myself or Todd who is the beautiful. Ah well, in the land of the bald, the one haired man is king. That is some consolation...

Runners and Christians everywhere will no doubt be excited to hear that a new movie is planned which will pick up the story of Eric Liddell where Chariots of Fire ended. To those of us who are runners, CoF is without doubt the best running movie ever made.

Well, I can now add Jerry Lee Lewis to the arcane gnostic zones of knowledge which are inaccessible to me. A correspondent warns me not to write about Jerry Lee Lewis, as one has to be from the South to understand him which, as the writer points out, I evidently am not. So Jerry Lee joins the ranks...

Well, I can now add Jerry Lee Lewis to the arcane gnostic zones of knowledge which are inaccessible to me. A correspondent warns me not to write about Jerry Lee Lewis, as one has to be from the South to understand him which, as the writer points out, I evidently am not. So Jerry Lee joins the ranks...

An interesting web phenomenon: Google. Godlike in its ability to see into the nooks and crannies of each webpersons virtual life. Omnipresent and omniscient. But there is a way in which Google, even its mighty knowledge of the web, is not like God at all.

An interesting web phenomenon: Google. Godlike in its ability to see into the nooks and crannies of each webpersons virtual life. Omnipresent and omniscient. But there is a way in which Google, even its mighty knowledge of the web, is not like God at all.

I was struck by this description of social and intellectual attitudes in the ancient world in Ivor Davidson's Birth of the Church (Baker):

I was struck by this description of social and intellectual attitudes in the ancient world in Ivor Davidson's Birth of the Church (Baker):

Ironically, Del, Dylan Thomas is the one Welshman I have time for, and the poem you quote is surely one of the masterpieces of the English langauge.... Anyway, Christianity Today has posted an interesting, albeit brief, blog on the prosperity doctrine: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/137/...

Ironically, Del, Dylan Thomas is the one Welshman I have time for, and the poem you quote is surely one of the masterpieces of the English langauge.... Anyway, Christianity Today has posted an interesting, albeit brief, blog on the prosperity doctrine: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/137/...