Just letting all you faithful Blog Channelers (wow, that just sounds wrong, doesn’t it?) know that I am back from vacation and all the other stuff that kept me away from blogging this month. I promise a complete “While I was Away” post later that will try to catch you up on everything that has happened since my last post.

See you soon!

Hmmm. I wonder how long I’d need to run in order to work these calories off? Who knew Kripsy Kreme offered bacon cheeseburgers?

Two parts of my life collided recently: first, I ran across this story about the pastor who wrote the worship song, “Healer,” but actually lied about having cancer, and second, I just finished the third chapter of the book, unChristian, which talks about hypocrisy in the church. The result of the collision? I realized that even though people in churches are shocked by a pastor who would lie for 2 years about having cancer, for the most part the people we want to reach with the gospel are not. Sadly, according to the research quoted in unChristian, unbelievers have come to expect nothing more than this from churched people. Wow. We’ve actually succeeded in lowering the standards that Jesus fought so hard to raise.