The Northern Plight is Dot Comed

Hi Kids

Today is a very exciting day for us here at the Northern Plight. We've got a domain!

http://northernplight.com

We're also on wordpress. Hopefully this'll give us some more flexibility with site design. Plus, it'll put a bigger emphasis on your comments, which is what we love to see.

So go ahead and take the leap guys.

And never come back here again. - WOODWARD

Headlines for the Week

front page:
DEPARTMENT CHAPEL: NOT JUST FOR SKIPPING ANYMORE

local:
FRESHMEN GIRL DIDN'T REALIZE SHE WAS BEING HIT ON

business:
HURTING NCU BUSINESS DEPARTMENT TO MERGE WITH FINE ARTS

sports:
RAMS SOCCER TEAM PENALIZED FOR PROPHESYING A LOSS FOR THEIR OPPONENTS

technology:
WIRELESS INTERNET IN CLAY COMMONS REQUIRES A WIRE

health:
"TYPING ELBOW" NOT A VIABLE EXCUSE FOR SKIPPING BOWLING CLASS

politics:
STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT KEEPS FORGETTING HE'S STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT

opinion:
“I'M PRETTY SURE THAT KID IN MY GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES CLASS IS THE WORST SPIDER SOLITAIRE PLAYER EVER.”
-DJ Schoelen

A Letter From The Editors To You

Dear Truth-Seekers, Link-Followers, Curiosity-Quellers, and Debate-Starters (our readers),

Thank you so much for checking out our little plight. Your support has helped make The Northern Plight the 2nd or 3rd most popular satirical news blog with a pigeon logo in NCU history. The following statistics are real (I know sometimes it's hard to tell with us)

- From it's inception on July 21 to the minute I'm writing this, The Northern Plight has had 1,319 page visits from 388 Absolute Unique Visitors from 13 countries and 29 states (including Alaska but not Hawaii).

- 1/3 of our entire visits have occurred in the last 7 days and we are now averaging over 60 hits per day.

We are both shocked and a little humbled by the response we've seen and still don't know exactly what to do with ourselves. Frankly, it's amazing to imagine people other then professors are reading something we've written, and even sometimes having something to say about it!

We think people like what they're seeing here, and appreciate it more then you might realize. Even if you disagree with us, it hasn't stopped you from stopping by, and at times, telling us so.

Thanks for your patience with us as we continue to develop our writing styles and topics into something worth your attention. We believe there is potential for this silly little blog to spark something very good at North Central. We hope you'll stick around to see it played out.

Your editors
Woodward and Bernstein

OPINION: My Ministry Is Totally More Post-Modern Than Yours

You guys can't handle how relevant my church is.

By: James Bromley
Church Planter

Honestly, if you want people to come to your church, you've got to be willing to meet them on their level. The internet, relationships, post-modernism, new generation, 360 degree leadership, incense... these are the things the every day person cares about. Seriously, I was just reading in that new Donald Bell trendy church book Everyday Situations Are More Spiritual Than You Thought about how churches today need to be more emerging, casual, authentic, formal, simple, leadership oriented, communal, have cool videos, and attendee oriented. And that's exactly the vision Hopewalk Christian Center is accomplishing in this community.

You can ask anyone in my po-mo (post-modern for those of you unaware) congregation, and they'll tell you, Hopewalk has the coolest website and the elitist lobby coffee shop of any church in the area. And believe me, my people know. They used to attend your church, as well as 5 or 6 other none high-definition chuches in the city.

Get with it old guys! It's time to get back to the 1st century church! Get yourselves a cool logo already and a book deal for your pastors. If you haven't released a series of video devotionals with accompanying discussion guide, you're already out of touch. This is the information age and it's time the church recognize it by posting on our blogs.

As the number of Americans attending church continues to fall and yet the number of mega-churches continues to rise it's time to ask ourselves an important question. Why am I not one of those mega-churches? There's a reason I left the business field to become a pastor. It's because I had a burden to be in charge of something! In charge of something God would grow and bless to make me make him look awesome!

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