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Today we re-booked our Vietnam trip for a couple hundred dollars more and on a lesser airline (United is no Korean Air from what I hear).  But this didn’t happen without incident . . .

As we were booking our flight with a much more reputable and professional travel agency in one of the nicest parts of the DFW Metroplex the power went out.  But what was weird is that not all the power went out, only about a quarter of the building, and it just happened to be the area of the building our travel agent was placed.

Since she couldn’t check availability on a PC without power, she resorted to using the telephone.  However, during the middle of the conversation the phone went dead.

Don’t be surprised if the Geedings show up in an episode of Lost.

The trip goes as follows:

Fri March 09: DFW to San Fran – 3 hours 49 minutes
Sat March 10: San Fran to Hong Kong to Saigon – 19 hours 21 minutes

And going home . . .

Fri March 16: Saigon to Hong Kong to San Fran – 17 hours 28 minutes
San Fran to DFW – 3 hours 27 minutes

All U.S. travel will be on an Airbus, and all overseas travel will be on a Boeing 747 400.  I thought it would have been the other way around.

I’m really going to miss DogGeeding.

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And thanks for Bone for this link:

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Who is Tony Campolo?

EDMONTON – Tony Campolo is a very busy man. A Baptist minister and bestselling author, Campolo makes more than 300 personal appearances a year. Christianity Today calls the 71-year-old American one of the most influential preachers of the last 50 years. 

Campolo and some others prefer to call themselves “red-letter Christians,” meaning people who try to live by the words of Jesus (often printed in red in Bibles).

What about the Religious Right:

The religious right has created the image that evangelism is by defintion anti-gay, anti women, anti-environment, pro-war, pro-captial punishment. So the minute I walk onto a university campus and announce myself as an evangelical, the red flags go up. So a group of us here in the United States who are fairly prominent on the speaking circuit … got together and said: ‘We are evangelical in our theology, but we do not want to be categorized as evangelicals because of the connotations that go with that.’

(Red-letter Christians) believe in the doctrine of the Apostles Creed; we believe that the Bible was inspired by the spirit of God in such a way as to keep the authors from making errors; we believe that Jesus is God incarnate and living among us today, having resurrected from the grave. These are the three things that incorporate evangelism ….

There is a group of us who hold to those beliefs, but we do not want to be wedded to a reactionary politics that does not communicate the kind of call for compassionate justice.

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