Starbucks to Offer free WiFi

Posted on February 23, 2008

Yes, Starbucks has finally shaken the shackles of T-Mobile to catch up with the rest of the coffeeshop world in offering free WiFi. This Spring 2 hours of free WiFi will be available for any Starbucks card holder (you know, those gift cards you can recharge?). I still say, support local business and bypass the corporate coffee when you can. But, unfortunately, that’s not always an option, certainly not always a palatable one.

Now, if Barnes & Noble and Borders would just get on board, we could all be jacked into the Matrix even more of the time!

Evangelical Scandals: morality, justice, and politics

Posted on February 21, 2008

In the past decade, Ron Sider has contributed two solid books that should jar every evangelical: Just Generosity and The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience. If Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience took a chunk out of the corrupt evangelical pietistic soul, Just Generosity restores it with a holistic vision of the gospel of Jesus. Sider’s newest book, Scandal of Evangelical Politics, indicts the political extremes and calls for a biblically rooted, practically oriented, non-partisan approach to Christian political responsibility. Though I have my reservations about putting too much hope into political action, this book will no doubt prove useful in curbing unhealthy activism and promoting balanced political engagement. Taken together, these three books not only break the scandal of evangelical immorality, injustice and politicking, but chart a redemptive way forward in order to make the world a better place.

Read the first chapter here.

Read my sermon: Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience