We’re heading to our new home! The Amalgamblog is moving back to its original home on the Concoxions website. The new Amalgamblog is at www.concoxions.com/blog. The new site contains all the old articles and comments from this blog in a new more user friendly site. Keep checking back at our new home each day for more articles, pictures, videos, and other miscellany.
Author Archive for williamccox
26
Sep
08
Moving to Our New Home
26
Sep
08
Quotes to Ponder: Bono
“It’s extraordinary to me that the United States can find $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire G8 can’t find $25 billion to save 25,000 children who die every day from preventable diseases.”
- Bono, lead singer for U2 and anti-poverty activist
Fall began yesterday and we here at the Amalgamblog are looking forward to the new season (at least most of us). Instead of giving you my top ten favorite things about fall, I sent out an e-mail thread to all the contributors to the blog and asked them what they liked about this time of the year. As always, the thread was very entertaining. So in the order of which I received replies, here are thirteen Amalgamblog contributors with their favorite things about the fall (with a few parenthetical sidenotes).
As the McCain and Obama campaigns go back and forth during this election, one gets the sense that there are some important issues that are not getting the time that they deserve. One important issue that both will likely continue to avoid is this simple fact: It has been 100 years since we last elected a guy with facial hair to the Oval Office. My fellow Americans, this should not be so. So while we dream in vain that McCain 
will rock the fu manchu or Obama will grow some serious sideburns, let’s look back at the top ten presidents that sported facial hair.
10. Grover Cleveland
Not only is he the only president to share a name with a Sesame Street character, not only is he the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms, not only is he the only president to get married while in office, but Grover Cleveland, our 22nd (and 24th) president, leads off this list with his simple, yet classy mustache.
Continue reading ‘Top Ten Tuesday: Presidential Facial Hair’
Earlier this evening as I watched So Cal whip on on Ohio State, I stumbled upon this link on the Relevant website. I can’t believe someone had not thought of this earlier because it’s brilliant. Who doesn’t want to make up their own church sign? I know I do (I’m especially fond of my church sign quote to the left). So, if you want to waste some time check out www.churchsigngenerator.com.
Since Apple is rolling out a new batch of iPods today, we figured that we would look back at the top ten commercials featuring the ubiquitous MP3 player. Now, how do you rank a bunch of commercials that feature pretty much the same concept (though a few on our list break out of the typical silhouette people dancing mode)? It all comes down to a catchy song. Side note: this is not an endorsement of any of these artists. Without further ado, here’s your top ten for this Tuesday.
04
Sep
08
?: Jesus for President
The Democrats went last week and the Republicans are about to wrap up their turn. The Amalgamblog is not going to make any comment on the presidential race. But since politics are obviously unavoidable, here’s a couple of hypothetical questions:
-Would Jesus, if he were walking amongst us and was a natural-born American citizen, run for President? Why or why not?
-If Jesus did run for President, would he have any shot of getting elected?
03
Sep
08
Shootin’ Again
02
Sep
08
Art to Heart @ G-Webb
This morning, we had the privilege of being at Gardner-Webb University as Dad (that would be Bill to the rest of you) led the chapel service. Here are a few pictures of Art to Heart from earlier today. Thanks to everyone that helped out (including Robin who took most of these pictures).
31
Aug
08
Pray for the Gulf Coast
As Hurricane Gustav heads toward the Gulf Coast, be praying for the people that live there; both those that are evacuating and those that are riding the storm out. Be in prayer especially for those that did not have the means to evacuate. Natural disasters like this are terrible as is, but the fact that this area was battered by Katrina three years prior makes it worse. So keep these people and their loved ones in your prayers. Just to let you know, Kat Garber, who is on our Seesalt staff and attends seminary in New Orleans, is safe in Upstate South Carolina with us right now.
