Some Pirate resources for you today, before getting back with “serious” business. And if ye be complainin’, then ye can walk the plank, ya landlubber! Arrrrr!
Lyrics to Reliant K’s “The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything”
The Pirate Quiz, to discover your own pirate name.
Dave Barry on Talk Like a Pirate Day.
That’s right! My favorite goofy day of the year is here tomorrow, Sept, 19th. Time for all of us to swab the poop deck, dig for booty, and call someone a bilge rat. Make sure to say “Arrrrr” at least once tomorrow, and you will make me happy.
If you need help on suggestions on what to do, make sure to check out the site for Talk Like a Pirate Day.
That’s right! My favorite goofy day of the year is here tomorrow, Sept, 19th. Time for all of us to swab the poop deck, dig for booty, and call someone a bilge rat. Make sure to say “Arrrrr” at least once tomorrow, and you will make me happy.
If you need help on suggestions on what to do, make sure to check out the site for Talk Like a Pirate Day.
Today is the Christian Sci-Fi and Fantasy blog tour. Instead of doing a book review today, we are focusing on the website Edenstar.
If you are looking for a resource for finding quality Sci-Fi or Fantasy from a Christian perspective, then this is a great place to start. The couple,
Bill and Cheryl Bader, used their talents (his – library and cataloguing, hers – web design) to create Edenstar.
From their site:
For Christians who enjoy science fiction and fantasy, finding the fiction we like to read can be tough.
The traditional Christian bookstore shelves science fiction with other fiction. So we sort through prairie romances to find the occasional science fiction or fantasy title.
In the general-market bookstore, Christian science fiction is shelved with other science fiction, if it’s carried at all. So here again we sift through inappropriate material to find the books we like to read.
That’s why we started Edenstar Books and Games in February 2003. We believe there are many others like us, who would love to read more Christian-themed science fiction and fantasy, if they just knew where to find it.
They have over 600 items listed on their site! They have it categorized in many ways that make it easy to find what you’re looking for: Adults, Kids, Videos, Games, and specific categories for Narnia and Tolkien, the foundations of Christian fantasy.
Be sure to check them out, and I will share a little more about Edenstar over the next couple of days. Be sure to check out my friends in the tour below for more CSFF goodness!
Jim Black
Jackie Castle
Valerie Comer
Bryan Davis
Beth Goddard
Leathel Grody
Karen Hancock
Elliot Hanowski
Katie Hart
Sherrie Hibbs
Sharon Hinck
Tina Kulesa
Kevin Lucia
Rachel Marks
Shannon McNear
Rebecca LuElla Miller
Cheryl Russel
Mirtika Schultz
Stuart Stockton
Steve Trower
Speculative Faith
Today is the Christian Sci-Fi and Fantasy blog tour. Instead of doing a book review today, we are focusing on the website Edenstar.
If you are looking for a resource for finding quality Sci-Fi or Fantasy from a Christian perspective, then this is a great place to start. The couple,
Bill and Cheryl Bader, used their talents (his – library and cataloguing, hers – web design) to create Edenstar.
From their site:
For Christians who enjoy science fiction and fantasy, finding the fiction we like to read can be tough.
The traditional Christian bookstore shelves science fiction with other fiction. So we sort through prairie romances to find the occasional science fiction or fantasy title.
In the general-market bookstore, Christian science fiction is shelved with other science fiction, if it’s carried at all. So here again we sift through inappropriate material to find the books we like to read.
That’s why we started Edenstar Books and Games in February 2003. We believe there are many others like us, who would love to read more Christian-themed science fiction and fantasy, if they just knew where to find it.
They have over 600 items listed on their site! They have it categorized in many ways that make it easy to find what you’re looking for: Adults, Kids, Videos, Games, and specific categories for Narnia and Tolkien, the foundations of Christian fantasy.
Be sure to check them out, and I will share a little more about Edenstar over the next couple of days. Be sure to check out my friends in the tour below for more CSFF goodness!
Jim Black
Jackie Castle
Valerie Comer
Bryan Davis
Beth Goddard
Leathel Grody
Karen Hancock
Elliot Hanowski
Katie Hart
Sherrie Hibbs
Sharon Hinck
Tina Kulesa
Kevin Lucia
Rachel Marks
Shannon McNear
Rebecca LuElla Miller
Cheryl Russel
Mirtika Schultz
Stuart Stockton
Steve Trower
Speculative Faith
I was fairly disturbed at this article about Joel Osteen and his book, discussing the upcoming Time magazine cover story. I happen to be of the opinion that we come to God because we are desparately needy for redemption from our sins, not for our financial needs. What do y’all think?
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By the way, be sure to check out other links in the CFBA on the right. There are many links to Taylor Field’s new book Squat. Some have interviews with him, others give their personal reviews. Of course, you can check out the Squat website here.
I was fairly disturbed at this article about Joel Osteen and his book, discussing the upcoming Time magazine cover story. I happen to be of the opinion that we come to God because we are desparately needy for redemption from our sins, not for our financial needs. What do y’all think?
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By the way, be sure to check out other links in the CFBA on the right. There are many links to Taylor Field’s new book Squat. Some have interviews with him, others give their personal reviews. Of course, you can check out the Squat website here.
Today is the start of the blog tour for the book Squat. This looks like a fascinating book. It is written by Taylor Field, a pastor in inner city New York. He heads up the Graffiti Community Ministries, which is an outreach to the homeless community in NYC.
This is key, because Squat is 24 hours in the life of Squid, an obsessive-compulsive homeless kid who struggles for acceptance. The premise sound very interesting, and with Field’s experience, he knows of which he talks about.
Unfortunately, I was a little late in registering for this tour of duty, so I did not get to read Squat ahead of time. It is definitely on my “must check out” list. However, I do happen to have, via the magic of the internet, a handy-dandy review link here for you.
I also invite you to check out the Squat website for more information. One of the great things about this book is that “all author proceeds from Squat will go to Graffiti Community Ministries, Inc., a service arm of the East Seventh Street Baptist Church on the Lower East Side of Manhattan where Field preaches.” Now if you wondered about enjoying a fine read but felt guilty about spending a few bucks, your conscience is clear!
“We live in a squat. We don’t know squat. We don’t have squat. We don’t do squat. We don’t give a squat. People say we’re not worth squat.”
Today is the start of the blog tour for the book Squat. This looks like a fascinating book. It is written by Taylor Field, a pastor in inner city New York. He heads up the Graffiti Community Ministries, which is an outreach to the homeless community in NYC.
This is key, because Squat is 24 hours in the life of Squid, an obsessive-compulsive homeless kid who struggles for acceptance. The premise sound very interesting, and with Field’s experience, he knows of which he talks about.
Unfortunately, I was a little late in registering for this tour of duty, so I did not get to read Squat ahead of time. It is definitely on my “must check out” list. However, I do happen to have, via the magic of the internet, a handy-dandy review link here for you.
I also invite you to check out the Squat website for more information. One of the great things about this book is that “all author proceeds from Squat will go to Graffiti Community Ministries, Inc., a service arm of the East Seventh Street Baptist Church on the Lower East Side of Manhattan where Field preaches.” Now if you wondered about enjoying a fine read but felt guilty about spending a few bucks, your conscience is clear!
“We live in a squat. We don’t know squat. We don’t have squat. We don’t do squat. We don’t give a squat. People say we’re not worth squat.”
Over the next couple of weeks there will be a lot going on here (pending Blogger not crashing anytime soon…).
Tomorrow will be the next Christian Fiction Blog Alliance tour.
Next week there will be the latest installment of the Christian Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog Tour.
I am planning on starting a little series out of Francis Schaeffer’s Art and the Bible.
And…by the time all that is done, the CFBA should be due again!
Stay tuned!