Left work early, got a dollar menu hamburger, and drove to the Uptown a few weeks ago to see Rob Bell on his The Gods Aren’t Angry Tour. Generally speaking I am a fan of his. I don’t agree with everything he says or how he says it but on the major issues I think most [...]
Archive > November 2007
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King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation…they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they [...]
Debt - the middle class American Dream
Who Gives?
According to SHLOG Arthur Brooks, the author of “Who Really Cares”, “The two most generous groups in America are the rich and the working poor,” says Brooks. “The middle class give the least. But the working poor give the largest percentage of their incomes to those in need, a more sizeable chunk than the rich [...]
SnAkE piT
A few years ago friends and I came up with a game we like to call Snake Pit. The game is pretty simple. Its similar to ultimate frisbee except the method of movement is riding longboards. At the begining of most summers we conclude we are going to play this game often. As it happens not one game of [...]
Feed me
As if having this blog doesn’t make me seem enough like a narcissist …thinking that I actually have “readers” is quite conceited of me. But for those of you…mom, dad… that actually read my blog there are easier ways than visiting randzig.com to see my post. You can suscribe to my content via a feed [...]
The Fruit of Short Term Missions
A couple of years ago I surveyed the students who had been on Global Projects (InterVarsity’s short-term mission program). Forty percent experienced depression upon return. I have watched students come back from a summer spent living in some of the most desperate conditions humanity is experiencing today and ditch the faith. They do not have [...]
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