Check out Wyman Richardson's Walking Together website.  Wyman has done a lot of work on church discipline, membership and how the church is supposed to function in community as  sinners redeemed by Jesus.

I particularly liked his PowerPoint presentation on church discipline.  Check it out.

Friends of Dustin Salter have put together a two things: a website called Our Friend Dustin and a book of remembrances.  Each is a medium for remembering, thanking, and for ongoing prayer for Leigh Anne, Jacob, Nathan and Meredith.

The nightmare continues for American Eric Volz who was convicted  in Nicaragua of murdering his former girlfriend in spite of multiple witnesses present to testify that he was working with them in a city two hours away from the place and time of the murder.  The witnesses and cell phone records showing Eric's location were not admitted by the Nicaraguan judge in his murder trial, and all of the forensic evidence pertaining to the murder...had no connection to Eric.Read more

Wyman Richardson, a pastor and scholar who has recently published a book on church discipline, has launched a new blog on life in the church (including discipline).  Check out "Walking Together".

One hundred and seventy-one years ago today Texians (as they  called themselves) declared independence from Mexico.  Texans today thank God for His many blessings on the citizens of our state.

CGO Readers,

We have the possibility of putting up an interview as a podcast here at CGO...if I can figure out how to do it. 

I'm an absolute twit when it comes to tech stuff so please don't refer me to Typepad's Help section.  As a twit, I need someone who can walk me through it on the phone or by email, but preferrably by phone. 

Or, if trying to post a podcast is not reality with Typepad blog software, how does one get the interview up on iTunes?

Thank you for any help you can provide. 

Both Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith are strong Christians who are telling their story of faith to tRead more

Here is the NY Times article on John Brown University reversing its ban on dancing.  In the next post I will interact with excerpts from the article.

January 28, 2007
The First Dance

On the first night of December, an unseasonably cold one in the Ozarks, the boys and girls of John Brown University primped in their zoot suits, suspenders, waistcoats, spats, faux-hawks, pompadours, knee-length pleated skirts, nylons, snoods and inch-high black heels and marched through snow drifts to their gymnasium in the Walton Lifetime Health Complex, one of northwest Arkansas’s monuments to the Wal-Mart family’s generosity. Inside, the gymnasium was decorated with rows of Christmas lights strung overhead across the width of the basketball court, from one railing of the mezzanine jogging track to the other. The occasion, which would last from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m., was a dance, the first of its kind at this small, nondenominational Christian college.Read more

CGO Readers:

I've added Rule #6 to the CGO Rules for Comments and Trackbacks.  As of 1/8/2007 you will need to use your real name and your own real email address if you wish to participate in the converation at CGO.  Read more

Washington Post writers Alan Cooperman and Jaqueline L. Salmon have written another piece that goes more in-depth on The Falls Church and Truro Episcopal Church.  These are some of the churches Northern Virginia that voted last month to break with the Episcopal Church USA and submit themselves to the Archbishop of Nigeria's ecclesial authority.Read more