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January 29, 2007

1. The Pope is at it again. This time he says, “more fine art, less Paste.” I will say this was a bit more balanced than his music style talk last year. See my post about it here.

2. David Fitch waxes about the danger of mission statements and why he believes ‘value’ adjectives better serve the mission of God through the local church.

3. Some keen observations from the JollyBlogger himself, David Wayne, on the underlying communication brilliance the Hillary camp used in officially entering the presidential race for 2008 last week.

4. Speaking of Hillary, someone get her some voice lessons. Ouch!

5. Max Hsu, ‘off the hook’ photographer/artist, shows us the difference between creating and doing art by reminding us of Scooby Doo.

6. Pinch me. According to Pitchfork, The Police and The Smashing Pumpkins to reunite for appearances in upcoming months. In other news, the David Lee Roth version of Van Halen to reunite. Sorry Dave, no one cares.

7. Speaking of The Police and Van Halen, Dan Kimball debates who is the more exciting reunion of 2007. Come on, Dan, remember the reggae…

8. Interesting news item lost in the shuffle last week: Mike Jones, the male prostitute whose accusations against New Life Church founder Ted Haggard led to Haggard’s dismissal as pastor visits Haggard’s old church, …to “get some perpective” and to research a project on evangelicals with a New York-based theater troupe.

9. Ron Martoia reminds us of the importance of the catalyzing question. Isn’t that WJDid?

10. Nashville’s Tennessean reports piracy to blame for recent job cuts at Brentwood-based EMI Christian Music Group. But is piracy to blame for the downturn in CD sales in all genres? Felix Oberholzer-Gee of Harvard Business School in Massachusetts and Koleman Strumpf of the University of North Carolina don’t think so.

11. Can the E-word be saved? USA today looks at the ‘misunderstood, misappropriated and maligned’ term, evangelical, and if it can regain its ground as label of choice for Christians.

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