What About Bob

Church Performer Dies

Tragedy struck Wednesday night during the opening performance of a nativity play at Crossroads Community Church.  Twenty-two-year-old Keri Shyrock died Thursday morning from injuries sustained when she fell head first about 20 feet in front of a large audience, including many children.

Shryock, 23, of Sylvania, Ohio, joined the non-denominational megachurch in August. She was performing an aerial acrobatics routine with two other actors on the opening night of the production “Awaited,” a contemporary retelling of the Christmas story, when suddenly she plummeted from the rope into an aisle. She died this morning at University hospital.

Those who knew her described Keri Shryock as one of those truly nice people who was always smiling, always happy, and always eager to help out at the church she loved.

“We’re all saddened by this and will keep everyone in our prayers.”
The university’s campus ministry is working on a possible prayer service but definite plans have not been announced.

Crossroads Church is non-denominational and draws about 10,000 people each weekend to its four services.

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Heath Ledger is found dead in New York

Heath Ledger was found dead yesterday in a Manhattan apartment, New York police said. He was 28.

Authorities said the autopsy was inconclusive and that it would take about 10 days to determine a definitive cause of death for the actor, whose fans remembered him Wednesday by leaving flowers and candles outside his Manhattan apartment.

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Louisiana Turns a Corner

Since it was purchased by the United States in 1803, Louisiana has always been a state known for it's share of controversy, corruption, and colorful characters in office..  As the history books re-tell the political stories of my home state, names like Huey P. Long and Edwin Edwards alway rise to the bottom of the glass.  I, among many, have always hoped for leaders who would bring real integrity and honesty back to the good people of this Land of Louis.   Today, many of us Louisianians have found hope again with the election of Bobby Jindal. 

Bobby Jindal was born in Baton Rouge in 1971. His parents were in grad school there, recent immigrants from the Punjab in northern India. He was raised Hindu, but converted to Roman Catholicism in his teens. He went to Louisiana public schools, then Brown University, where he was an honors student in biology and public policy. A Rhodes Scholar, he was admitted to the medical and law schools of both Harvard and Yale—but chose Oxford instead.

It was 1994. He was 23 years old. The whole bright world of Europe was open before him. He had a prestigious consulting job waiting in D.C. But Bobby Jindal was looking back toward home.
Read more on his bio HERE. 
Go to his site HERE.

History books are still to write Jindal's story.  I'm confident that his leadership will fair well for the people of Louisiana if the existing political machine follows his lead. 

Shooting at New Life Church in Colorado

A CHURCH member and a gunman are dead and four people wounded after the gunman opened fire in a car park following a Sunday worship service at New Life Church, Colorado Springs police said.

Police were searching the sprawling campus of the 10,000-member church for reported bombs that may have been part of the shooting.

Officers said the gunman opened fire 30 minutes after a service ended and as many as 7000 people took shelter in buildings or fled as the congregation locked down.

Of the four wounded, three were admitted to Penrose Hospital, where one was listed in critical condition, one in fair condition and a third in good condition.

The status of the fourth victim was not available.

Pastor Brady Boyd said one of the dead was a New Life member.

"My heart is broken," he said.

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Rotten News to the Core

SO omnipotent is the Apple digital music machine that just the possibility of one of its main suppliers holding back some of its music from Apple’s iTunes music store is enough to make headlines and send shock waves.  That is what happened last week when the Universal Music Group let Apple know that it would no longer grant the company guaranteed access to its coming releases.  Read here.