An AP story reported yesterday a chemical spill in Minas Gerais state. A massive caustic soda spill contaminated the Pomba river, which flows into the Paraíba do Sul river. (The latter flows through SJCampos, but we're far upriver from the Pomba.) The report says,

Both rivers flow from Minas Gerais into Rio de Janeiro state.

Well, not exactly. Downstream from us, the Paraíba do Sul river marks about a third of the border between the two states, but at no point does the Paraíba do Sul river flow from the former into the latter state.

A small detail, you say? Perhaps, but if this detail was wrong, how many others do you think the journalists screw up?

Remember that when they say how bad the war in Iraq is going, among other things.

In the April 2003 issue of <a href="www.acu.edu" target_blank">eConnections, Abilene Christian University announced it has invited an evangelical to teach in its annual summer missions seminar.

We are bringing in a Missions specialist, Gary Corwin, Associate Editor of the Evangelical Missions Quarterly. He will be teaching on three aspects of leadership development: The Christ of Leadership Development, The Curricula of Leadership Development and the Challenges of Leadership Development.

While the university has had (and perhaps still does) evangelicals teaching in their Bible department before, they now proudly announce the inclusion, evidently for the first time, of a major evangelical figure in the missions seminar.

We await further announcements of evangelical presence in their lectureship. Perhaps even a future university president. If not, why not?

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