Friday, October 28, 2005

Party Like It's 1917!!

1.75 million Chicagoans came out to celebrate the World Series Champion (sounds strange, huh?) Chicago White Sox during a ticker tape parade. The first White Sox World Series winner since 1917. Gotta love it!

A New Take On The Prosperity Gospel

After all these years of teaching that the prosperity gospel is not exactly theologically accurate...along comes a study from MIT. According to Jonathan Gruber of the economics department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Doubling the frequency of attendance at church leads to a 9.1 percent increase in household income, or a rise of 5.5 percent as a fraction of the poverty scale". If you want more, enjoy: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1249180.