Don't try this at home. I'm a professional Russian.

Love this guy. He's pretty good at shooting stuff:




A language warning on this one.




Definitely don't try this one at home. Even if you're Russian.




And sometimes, even Russians don't quite get it right...




Ah, a shame he's not really Russian...

Promise it's not a rickroll...

Who'd've thought that Julia would be so into Fridays?

What is the good?

In preaching, there are a number of goals that a preacher is trying to achieve. In this post, however, I'm focussing in not on content, but rather on communication.

What is the chief value that a communicator ought to strive for? Retention of information? Affecting the hearer? Mirroring the rhetorical method employed by the text?

I'd love to hear some thoughts.

I wonder ...

... why as humans we are so good at ignoring warnings, even ones we know are true?

Disturbingly brilliant

Tell me what you think.

For fear of being phobic

This is a top post from a good friend about assumptions on how Christians and progressive social groups must relate in the public sphere.

It's been sparked by the recent controversy and counter-controversy of Adshel's decision to take down posters from the Rip & Roll campaign, and its subsequent decision to reinstate the posters. The decisions were made in response to public outcry and then to the public outcry to the public outcry.

Very helpful.

As for the poster itself, I have to say it's not particularly racy compared to most heterosexual stuff on billboards. That said, those protesting against the Rip & Roll ads are also campaigning against the heterosexual racy stuff so some of the charges of hypocrisy are poorly aimed. It's just that they've been less 'successful' in those campaigns. Probably due to the dollars behind them, I suspect.