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Those of you who are regular readers know that I have some doubts about the actual environmental benefits of both hybrids and flex-fuel / ethanol powered cars.

However, it seems the rest of our country is sold on the idea, including the automakers that sell to our market. In the past few weeks quite a few announcements have been made about more hybrids that are getting ready to roll down the assembly line: the Chevy Volt, the (new) Honda Insight, and the Mercedes-Benz S400 Hybrid. Call me skeptical, but I’m still not convinced …

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In the interest of full and complete disclosure, this post is what some might call “shameless self promotion.” However I’d like to think that since I’m not promoting myself per se’ and rather the church I am a pastor of then it’s OK.

This past Sunday after worship, the Richmond Church of the Brethren (CoB) celebrated the launch of its new website! This site has been months in the making, as it was in progress for quite some time before I became pastor in June.  You can check out the site to see all its exciting bells and whistles, including online calendars, a “conversations” blog, and online newsletter distribution. Since I did quite a bit of work getting the site finalized and ready for launch, I’ll talk about some of the more technical details of the site in the rest of this post.

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It came up recently in a conversation with a friend that it seems everyone is jumping on the environmental bandwagon these days. While as recently as a few years ago things like organic gardening, energy conservation, and sustainable living were relegated to the fringes of society, today they have gone mainstream. This is true not only in secular culture, but also within the Christian community.

Serve God, Save the Planet is written by J. Matthew Sleeth, a former emergency room doctor, ER director, and chief of medical staff. He writes primarily out of his experience in evangelical Christianity, which is reflected by many of the theological assertions in the book. While I don’t necessarily agree with all of the theology he espouses, I do think that his core tenets of tying the care of creation with our love and service of God and fellow humans and are sound.

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Regular readers of this site, if there are actually any of you out there, have undoubtedly noticed a distinct lack of new content the past couple months since I’ve begun working full time. I wouldn’t necessarily say that this is a sign of things to come, but its definitely much more difficult these days to commit the time necessary to post as often as I was before.

I realize that there are probably two types of people who might stumble across this site … those who are interested in the content I’m posting, namely articles about computers, cooking, cars, Christianity, and the occasional personal interest piece, and then there are those who are more interested in me as a person and follow this blog to see what I’m up to and what I’m thinking.

This post is mostly directed to this latter portion of my audience. I want to make sure you know that there are other ways that you can stalk me keep up with what I’m doing besides this blog.

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