What I’m Reading 05/08/2008

My Senior Paper, “Joel Osteen and Prosperity Theology” | M_slack’s Xanga Site – Weblog

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• Great paper by a friend of mine. I’ll blog and reference it soon, I’m sure. – post by umjeremy

• Joel Osteen and Prosperity Theology

Hello Kitty Darth Vader Tattoo – Hello Kitty Hell

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• There are no words… – post by umjeremy

PastorHacks: Prayer list anytime via Jott/Sandy

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• Interesting idea for those without a computer-savvy assistant… – post by umjeremy

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  “I’ve used Jott (everyone should use Jott)and Sandy (my church can’t afford a secretary for me, so i have a virtual one) to create a highly functional prayer list which can be updated from anywhere and quickly accessed via email.

Feministing

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• Ridiculous double standard that assumes women will take men’s last name. Are we really still in “property exchange as marriage” land? – post by umjeremy

• Two years and a lawsuit later, CA man gets his wife’s last name

  Michael Buday wanted take his wife’s last name. “It was personal. I feel much closer to [her] father than I do mine. She asked me to take her name and I thought it would be very simple. I never imagined the state would make it so difficult.“

DVICE: World’s tallest LEGO tower built in England

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• Just.Dang.Awesome. – post by umjeremy

• If you’re looking for the tallest tower of LEGO in the world, here’s a picture of it right here. This monster was built in the Legoland Windsor theme park in the U.K. of 500,000 LEGO bricks, and stands just shy of 100 feet high. That eclipses the old record of 96.1 feet from August of last year by more than three feet, and has been submitted to the Guinness Book of World Records for authentication.