Whether we like it or not, the Christian church is no longer a central part of most people’s lives and is now a ‘minority group’ in Australian society. That means we are at risk of doing what minority groups do – building enclaves to preserve our language, culture, music and beliefs. It’s the same p ...
Here’s a fascinating project: visit 52 churches in one year and report on the findings. That is some church crawl! And it is exactly what novelist Suzanne Strempek Shea did. Her findings were published in April this year as a book Sundays in America: A Yearlong Road Trip in Search of Christian Faith ...
Well here we are. My first Blog Post. Who is Paulano? My real name is Paul Mansfield. I was born and raised in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. My parents are Ed and Eunice Mansfield. Both mom and dad are in their mid eighties, and both are still very definitely “with-it”. I’m hoping this is a good omen f ...
The Elders and I are always out looking for different comic books and works of science fiction so that we may understand how infidels, heretics, and nonbelievers think. It's hard for us to imagine how people can rise out of bed every morning without kneeling toward Gotham City and declaring, "Bruce ...
There have been constant debates on youtube, myspace, facebook, etc. all weekend about Miss Clarkson. She sang the Ave Maria for the Pope at the Youth Rally on Saturday. Any trained musician could hear that she didn’t know the song, her Latin was poorly pronounced, her breath control was pathetic fo ...
There have been constant debates on youtube, myspace, facebook, etc. all weekend about Miss Clarkson. She sang the Ave Maria for the Pope at the Youth Rally on Saturday. Any trained musician could hear that she didn't know the song, her Latin was poorly pronounced, her breath control was pathetic fo ...
