Here is a link to an article debunking this John Edwards character on that talking with the dead program on the SciFi channel. Shouldn't it be obvious that these people are charlatans? But, as the article says, the kind of people who fall for this are people who want to believe it is true.

Check out today's astronomy picture of the day. (Or, if you aren't looking at it today, find it in the archive for March 5, 2003.) It's a neat representation of where people on Earth live. Looks like ND is indeed the Buffalo Commons!

Speaking of which, one of the speakers at our past missions conference is a pastor at an inner city Lutheran church, in one of the tougher Minneapolis neighborhoods. He talked about how there is a great migration worldwide from the rural to the cities, and then in a few decades 75% of the world's population will be in cities. He made the interesting observation that the Bible starts in a garden (rural) but ends in a city (New Jerusalem).