Officials Weigh Booing Ban at High School Games: Good/Bad Idea?

ABC News: Officials Weigh Booing Ban at High School Games

Is it okay to express ones self at all times, regardless of the venue? Well, maybe not all venues, but I think it’s certainly okay to boo at a high school game!

Listen, the kids are going to get booed at some point or other. If they pursue college ball, then they are definitely going to get booed. If they decide to go on to the professional level, they will most definitely get booed. It’s just part of sports. If you can’t handle the boos, then I’m afraid you don’t need to be playing the game. That’s first of all: second of all, the schools do not need to be banning the boos. Booing is our way, as spectators, to express our disgust with a ref’s call or a player’s behavior. What should we do? File a protest during the middle of the game to express our anger? No, thanks.

Keep the booing. It’s part of sports.

Tired of Coulter

For many outside of the political world, the name of Ann Coulter may fall on deaf ears. However, it shouldn’t. She’s the brazen, tough-acting, bigger-than-life, arrogant, stuck-up conservative author and speaker. She’s had a lot mean things to say (for one, accusing the widows of 9/11 families of exploiting their husbands’ deaths for fame-gain), and is in the headlines again for her antics. This time, she’s attacking Democratic presidential hopeful, John Edwards.

I don’t care for Edwards politically, either. I don’t think his ideas are coherent, and I believe that was proven in the 2004 campaign. But Coulter’s recent remarks are just ridiculous. She has called him a “faggot.” Not only is that childish but completely absurd and unnecessary. Ann Coulter has done nothing but continue to give Republicans a black-eye. For those Dems and Independents who think conservatives are narrow-minded, arrogant, idiots, she does a great job proving their perceptions to be correct. Luckily I know many conservative Republicans who are far from Coulter’s ideology…but woe to those who aren’t as fortunate.

One Scholarly Look at Jesus Tomb

Dr. Deidre Good is currently speaking rationally about the Jesus Tomb debate raging in Christianity right now. She is speaking at St. John’s Episcopal in N.Y. today and part of her discussion will be on this very topic. She makes some very good points about the implausibility (good choice of words) of this whole issue. Also, worthy of note, is her attention to the fact that even if it were proven to be true, it is not the end-all of the Christian faith. I think that’s a message that should be heard more.

[HT to: EpiScope]

One Week and Counting

Today marks the one-week countdown to my big wedding day. Nerves have yet to cripple me, but there is some general nervousness going on. No matter the wonderfulness that is wrapped up in the marriage thing, it is still a huge thing: a huge life-altering event. Plus, the whole set-up for the wedding has its own fair share of stresses and headaches (which Lori has experienced far more than me!) I guess, I’m just ready. It’s time. I’m glad to be settling down with my love.

One week and counting…

When did God Start Passing out this Kind of Money?

Kevin Russell tried to cash it. He tried his hardest to cash that tempting check. That wonderful $50,000 check from the “King of Kings.” But, alas, no one was having it.

My question is, “Where’s my check, God?”

Was Jesus’ Tomb Really Found?

James Cameron apparently thinks so. The famous Titanic director is doing a documentary that claims the tomb of Jesus was found, along with his mother, wife, son, and others. All of this comes from ossuaries found in a tomb in Jerusalem with the names of Jesus and others inscribed on them. The find is huge, for sure. But is it real or reliable?

No, it’s not. I appreciate the work and the detective ingenuity that Cameron and others put into this find, however, any and all evidence is purely circumstantial. All of the names – Jesus, Mary, Joseph, Judah, and Matthew – are extremely common in Ancient Palestine. It would not be hard to imagine several Mary’s marrying several Joseph’s and having children named Jesus. They were as common then as the names John and Will are today. This is not to discount the find that Cameron and others have found, but it is to show that the evidence they’ve gathered is merely circumstantial.

On a deeper note, as a Christian, this is one of those test-things that James speaks about. However, the beauty of faith surpasses all of this. Faith needs no hard evidence and disregards evidences like this that tend to test the faith. The lesson here is strong: faith is of supreme importance, and I hope that others learn that lesson through all of this.

Welcome.

After much debate and internal dialogue, I have decided to downplay the whole blogging thing. I was over at TypePad, but no longer. Instead, I’m going down the free-blogging route. Seems more economical now that I’m getting married and everything. It just made sense all-in-all.

I will go into more in-depth discussion of the happenings behind this blog, but for now, a synopsis. This blog is purely and extension of me. I am a Seminarian who was Baptist but is now Episcopalian. It is a change in many ways, but a wonderful change, indeed. This blog was inspired by that change. It will be a focus of the blog, for sure, but it will not be the entirety of the blog. I’m more than just Baptist or Episcopalian…I’m more than Episcoptistian. I am Kyle and that is what this blog will be about.

I think it would be prudent to blog (later on, of course) about how this change took place. And I will do so shortly. It is a challenging journey, I believe, but a very interesting one as well.

Feel free to comment at any and all times. Your views are welcomed, whether they are in agreement or not. It is the dialogue with others that makes conversation such a wonderful tool of society. Please share.

Having said all of that, I sincerely hope you enjoy the blog. Peace of the Lord be with you.