BANANALEAF CENTRAL The index for all the places you can find me on the web-- my blog, the social networking communities I belong to, and other various places I exist in cyberspace.Bananaleaf_Central.html

Check here for what has been updated and when!

I have big plans for this website.  At my first publishing of the site (on January 1, 2008), I had only about one-fourth of the material on it that I wanted to put on it.  So expect to find new material on here from time to time.  The only trouble is that I don’t often get a chance to work on it, so there may be long breaks between times that I update it.


Here I will list any updates I’ve provided to the site, so when you visit, you can go directly to any new material added since the last time you’ve visited.  I will include the two most recent updates so you’ll have a better idea if you may have missed any.

Here’s what I added or changed during my last update:

Updated February 13, 2011:


  1. ✦ I added three new pages, describing three more churches that I’ve regularly attended.  See First Assembly of God, Ovid Community Church, and Church At The Barn.

  2. ✦ I added an image on the page, Identity Crisis of an Evangelical, Part 3.  This image helps describe what I’m talking about there, and comes from a brochure about the church.

  3. ✦ I added text links in the Churches I’ve Regularly Visited section to reflect the new pages I added in that section.

  4. ✦ I updated some information on the Find Me page.

Here’s what I added or changed during the update before last:

MUSIC CENTRAL All about music! My Annual Music Awards, my music Hall Of Fame, and other writings about music and musicians I like are found here.../Music_Central/Welcome.html
J LEE THE MEDIA CRITIC An index to my writings about movies, books, and the media in general, such as news coverage and media bias../J_Lee_The_Media_Critic/J_Lee_The_Media_Critic_Index.html
SOCIETY CENTRAL My political and religious beliefs, and my commentary on society and politics.../Society_Central/Society_Central_Index.html
J LEE THE TRAVELER Photo albums from some of my travels outside of Michigan. Eventually I hope to include travelogues too.../J_Lee_The_Traveler/Welcome.html
Various photos I’ve taken not connected to any of my web- site pages.http://gallery.mac.com/catservants

The personal website of

J Lee Harshbarger

I’ve made this new Front Page especially for people who already know my website and know immediately where they want to go.  If this is your first time to my website, or you want to refresh your memory of what’s found here, go to my Website Index page for an introduction to my website, where you can get descriptions of each of the website sections linked in the pictures above.


Also be sure to check out Bananaleaf Central, which is an index of all the places you can find me on the web--my blog, my social networking communities, and various other places I hang out in cyberspace.

THIS IS THE NEW FRONT PAGE!

PONDERING GOD & CHURCH What does it mean to follow God? What should the church be like?../Pondering_God_And_Church/Statement_Of_My_Religious_Beliefs.html
CHURCHES I’VE REGULARLY ATTENDED A list of all the churches I’ve attended, plus full stories about some of them. ../Churches_Ive_Regularly_Attended/Churches,_Part_1.html
CHURCHES I’VE VISITED Stories about churches I’ve visited../Churches_Ive_Visited/Churches,_Part_2.html

Updated July 8 &15, 2012:


  1. ✦ I posted my 2011 Music Awards, complete with full new pages describing each of the 10 albums on the list

  2. ✦ I posted my 2010 Music Awards (yes, not until July 2012!), but these do not have full pages for describing the albums...not yet anyway.

  3. ✦ Due to Apple discontinuing MobileMe, where my blog was hosted, and the fact that my blog software does not work on current OS X systems, I let my blog die.  There are numerous links on this website to that blog.  I haven’t gotten them all updated yet, so most will be dead.  For many of them, I have plastered them with the message, “Killed by Apple & Lifli.”

  4. ✦ Today I brought three pages from my blog to this website -- the 3 lists of my favorite Christian albums of the 1980s.

  5. ✦ I updated the information on the sidebar in the Music Central section.

  6. ✦ Various other minor adjustments to the Music Central section.

  7. ✦ I rearranged the Find Me page, added a link to my Pinterest page, deleted my Delicio.us link, and added to the list of pages on my site the new pages since the last time I updated it.

  8. ✦ On the Bananaleaf Central page, I added a blurb about my Pinterest page.

  9. ✦ My hit counters were designed by Apple to only work when the site was hosted by Apple.  Since they’ve discontinued hosting, I’ve had to put in new hit counters and start all over (boo!).  I’ve put new hit counters on the music site but not the others yet.  On July 15, I replace them with a different company’s counter, because the first company’s couldn’t count...from 1 to 233 in a few visits...  Unfortunately, they all require links to ads.  Can’t find an ad-free one yet.


More updates will come as I have time, to fix the mess created by Apple ditching MobileMe.  To be fair to Apple, they gave us a whole year’s notice, but just like in college when I waited until the night before the term paper was due to start, I waited until the week before to start working on these updates.

BROWSER NOTES FOR WINDOWS USERS

I strongly recommend that you use Google Chrome or Apple Safari to view this website.  Firefox does not display some parts of pictures and also on some machines does not display the links at the top of each page.  Internet Explorer 8 makes a total mess of my web pages, doubling pictures instead of reflecting them.  For proper display of my web pages, I strongly recommend that you use Google Chrome or Safari for Windows to view this site on Windows machines.


Some pages have songs that you can play, which are in QuickTime format; if your browser doesn’t have a QuickTime plug-in, you won’t be able to hear the songs, but it’s easy to download the plug-in from Apple.


Mac users, this site looks good on any browser I’ve checked (Safari, Firefox, Chrome, and Opera), and you don’t need to worry about a plug-in to hear the music because Macs come with QuickTime!