I'm healthy as a horse, fit as a fiddle, and off to England!

I went to my heart Check-up today. I'm doing well. They said "get out of here kid, this place is for the sick."
Also, here are the two places I might live. 28 Histon Road, or Tyndale House.
I chose Tyndale.
Peace,
Chris

Heart Check-up today

I'm having my heart check-up at the Mayo Clinic here in Rochester in an hour or so. Thoughts and prayers would be appriciated.
Peace,
Chris

Check out the Church Website back in the UK

Now that the URC back in Saffron Walden has a pastor they also have updated their website. It looks really nice!
Peace,
Chris

Torture, don't do it!

I've been thinking a bit about torture. On one hand Sam Harris author of "The End of Faith" makes an argument that torturing religious folk is acceptable, as they are fanatics and you have to measure the common good versus individual human rights and realize fanatics with nukes should be tortured to get information that will save many lives. He compares torture to war and points out that war is much worse. That said he has a whole section about how torture during the inquisition got a lot of false witches and was one of the worst things to happen in history. So is seems to Sam torture by religious folks is bad, torture of religious folks is good. Obviously this position doesn't seem right to me by any stretch of the imagination. On the other hand there is this Ivin's column. It makes me want to do some sort of civil disobedience, but I don't know if I have time to as I'm traveling all over, doing a heart checkup, and flying out of the country in a couple of days. Also I am not familiar enough with all the positions out there, specifically I am very annoyed with my party because they're views on torture don't seem to be getting the same kind of press that the McCain/Bush bash is. Any thoughts on torture would be appreciated. Peace, Chris

A joke for the times we live in

So Jesus and Moses walk into a bar. They take a moment to look around. After a moment they look at each other and breathe a sigh of relief. Moses looks at Jesus and says, ‘Thank God that Mohammad isn’t here. This joke could have led to riots.’

Admitted!!!

So, I am no longer "accepted" in the M. Phil. program at Cambridge, instead I am admitted. Practically speaking what that seems to mean is that I can now look into getting a place to live at St. Ed’s itself!
Oh, and for those trying to track where in the world Chris Halverson is, I am currently at Thief River Falls Minnesota. I went to a family reunion today. Good fun. Everyone kept commenting on what nice hair I have. I couldn’t figure out why that was, so I asked my mom. She reminded me that the last time any of the these people had seen my I was in my "dreadlocks stage." Apparently wavy fluffy blond hair is more attractive to little old Scandinavian ladies than gnarled up grey-blond dreads "set" with yogurt. Who knew?
Peace,
Chris