Just a side note here about how “Kony 2012” measures up to other viral videos. As of this writing, the YouTube version has received over 76 million views. But the Visible Measures group says total views across the internet is over 112 million. How does that measure up to other viral sensations like “Charlie Bit My Finger Again” or Rebecca Black’s “Friday”? It took only six days for “Kony 2012” to become the fastest “campaign” to surpass 100 million views. In short, it’s the fastest growing viral video campaign in history. The stats are below.
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Piers Morgan Goes at Guests on the Gay Marriage Issue
If you are to appear on the Piers Morgan program, there is no need to be surprised or unprepared for the gay marriage questions. If he views you as a Christian, the questions will come whether you want them to or not. Whether or not it has anything to do with the reason you’re on the program, he’s going to ask, and he’s going to do it in such a way that casts you personally in a negative light. Clearly this is an important issue to him, and he wants to discredit anyone who believes what the Bible says about human sexuality. He’s done it over and over again (see…
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Intolerant Gay Activists Target Chick-fil-a
Tolerance for Christian teaching continues to wear really thin in some areas of our country. World magazine reports that activists have now set their sights on Chick-fil-a. Why? Because Chick-fil-a’s charitable foundation gives to groups like Fellowship of Christian Athletes, which these activists deem to be anti-gay. Here’s the report from World: Last week, the student senate at Northeastern University, in Boston, voted to end negotiations to bring fast-food chain Chick-fil-A to campus after students protested over the company’s affiliation with several Christian organizations the students say have an “anti-gay” agenda.
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Kony 2012 Creator Jason Russell on “Today Show”
Jason Russell appeared on “The Today Show” this morning to talk about his viral video “Kony 2012.” There wasn’t time for a full response to criticism of his group “The Invisible Children,” but a full response is posted here. Matt Chandler posted an endorsement of the organization yesterday saying that it is a “godsend to the region.”
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Do you know who Joseph Kony is?
If you don’t know who Joseph Kony is by now, then it’s likely that you don’t own a computer. He’s a brutal warlord in Africa who kidnaps children and conscripts them into his “Lord’s Resistance Army” (LRA). His tactics are unspeakably vicious and brutal, and he’s been at it for over 20 years. The man is a monster, and he needs to be stopped. I have written twice before on this blog about Kony, once in 2005 and again in 2008. Here’s what Christianity Today wrote about him in 2005:
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Spring Break on Daytona Beach in 1962
NBC’s “Rock Center” pulled a video from the NBC vault of a news program showing what Spring Break was like on Daytona Beach, Florida in 1962. I have to say, even the rebels looked pretty straight-laced back then.
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A Special Deal on Upcoming “PLNTD Conference”
At the end of this month (March 30-31), the PLNTD Network is hosting a great training event in South Florida focused on cultivating gospel communities. Steve Timmis and Jared Wilson are scheduled to speak, and there will be breakout sessions as well as Q&A that will likely be very beneficial to discussing and applying the content to the context of your local church.
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Boyce College Student Wins NY Times Design Contest
Boyce College student Alex Medina has just been featured at NYTimes.com for winning the New York Times Jeremy Lin design competition. The contest sought to find a “graphic treatment that is both tasteful and revolutionary, like Lin himself.” Alex’s winning design is pictured at right. You Lin fans need to click on the picture, visit Alex’s site, and purchase a t-shirt. The Times feature also explains Alex’s recent conversion to the Knicks from the Heat: “I like to say I don’t follow corporations, I follow players.” Alex is Linsane in the membrane, if you know what I mean. Read the rest of the New York Times feature here. Order the…
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Albert Mohler Weighs-in on Limbaugh Apology
I appreciate Albert Mohler’s remarks today about the Limbaugh controversy. Mohler says that Limbaugh’s apology was inadequate and that there are some lessons here for Christians: Words are a symbolic representation of character. Out of a man’s heart comes his words. And that’s where Mr. Limbaugh finds himself in trouble… Christians have to be very careful—to be reminded at all times that we are judged not only by our arguments but by the very words and phrases…that we deploy in making these arguments. As a formidable public figure, Mr. Limbaugh can fend for himself. I for one would wish that he had not even in his apology suggested that in…
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Keep Calm and Carry On
I was introduced to the slogan “Keep Calm and Carry On” by Joe Scarborough, who began using this as his Twitter image after Alabama lost to LSU last November. Since it was red and white, I thought it was a Bama thing. The short documentary above tells the real story, and I like it better. Very well done. (HT: Abraham Piper)