On a sober note - 
Stanley Grenz, professor, author, theologian, husband, father - suffered a significant surge in his blood pressure, which resulted in a major brain event, similar to a stroke or an aneurysm. He died yesterday.
Stan was the author of the very first book I read on postmodernism, A Primer on Postmodernism. 
I remember reading that book while on vacation at a cabin on a lake in Maine in 1997. I would stay up until 3 AM reading it with a flashlight in bed laying next to Becky. It was a book that really challenged me in thinking through a lot of issues for the church.
Although I didn't know him personally, I did have the privilege of briefly meeting him and talking with him a few times and hearing him speak several times. He seemed to be such a gentle man, yet so challenging in his theological perspective. Even if you don't agree with all his conclusions, you still leave his books falling more in love with the church and Jesus. I quoted him in The Emerging Church book.
In February, the Vintage Faith Church staff went to the Emergent Convention in San Diego and got to hear Stan speak. Robert Namba went to his Critical Concerns 8 hour course, and I know Stan's speaking was probably the highlight for most of the staff. He will certainly be missed in challenging us in theological thinking and his writings will continue to do so.
