Well folks, across the country, Election day is just around the corner. I’m amazed that Tennessee is as progressive as they seem to be in their effort to give everyone a chance to vote. Early Voting has been available for anyone and everyone to go to a number of locations throughout the city and cast their ballot for the two weeks leading up to election day, including Saturdays. Considering how un-democratic our Presidential elections have been, with one day, a work day, not an official holiday, most polls closing after …

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I haven’t had time to sit and type as much this week, but I have been putting a lot of short podcast up at the new A Few Minutes with Ariah (the podcast). I figured I should take a minute to pitch it to you so you know some of what inticing sound bits are available:

A short Economic Lesson in Opportunity Cost – You might have learned about it in High School, but let me explain how it should impact your life. Be warned though, it forces you …

I’ve made a few changes to Trying to Follow, as you can see. The new layout seems to be working well. Hopefully you like it (tell me if you don’t). I also haven’t been posting as much, my way of recognizing that you probably don’t have all the time in the world to read my writings.
I also fixed up my feed/subscription set up and consolidated things. To my shock I found that about 83 people are subscribed to my blog. That means by email, feed readers, etc. about 80 people …

The 6th Erase Racism Carnival has begun over at Taking Place.
I happened to have two articles featured in this month’s carnival.
Sweet!

A 6 minute proclamation of who Jesus is. I heard Joe White give this sermon at a Wheaton Chapel service once. He did it while hauling a giant log to the stage and making a cross out of it.

It’s that time of year again. By some bizarre aligning of the moons at the end of October, our society as a whole decides to toss aside thoughts of political correctness, takes off our discrimination filtering glasses and attempts to dumb down our views of people to the lowest common discriminator.
Usually the kids turn out semi-okay. Their costumes reflect the gender stereotypes we and Hollywood have been trying to instill in them at an early age. The girls dress up as princesses and fairies and anything else pretty. We give …

The story of the Father and Son Hoyt.

This movie makes me bawl:

You can also watch a news clip about their story.
Visit their website.

Or watch another inspirational video about them.
A Brief overview: Basically this is a Father-Son team that compete in triathlons, full Iron-man Triathlons, not rinky dinky ones, together. You’ll understand together when you see the video
There are many inspirational videos out there, but often times I find inspirational videos a bit cheesy. This one always touches me. I think the song My Redeemer goes so well with it because …

“I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.”
Usually when I hear folks mention this passage it’s with an attitude of “not sure what he meant, because that’s impossible.” I, on the other hand, seem to find Jesus’ words quite amazing and yet very believable. There are two reasons for this.
One, there are plenty of miracles occuring today. Most of us sitting in our wealth, independent …