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China Launches Ambitious Mission To Land On Moon and Return Samples To Earth - BeerFartMoron shares a report from CBS News: China launched its most ambitious moon mission yet Monday: a robotic spacecraft expected to land on the lunar ...

"Anarch", a new, public-domain Doom-like game coded from scratch in - [image: Screenshot of video game "Anarch"] I've argued that the video-game "Doom" is a sort of cultural version of Turing Completeness. Given that we're ja...

Humans Exist to Serve - (They Can Talk/Jimmy Craig) Fluffy has forgotten why he and Charlie got a human in the first place: to work for them. The human should not be engaging in...

AMD laptops have a hidden 10-second performance delay. Here’s why - AMD's flagship Zen 2 laptop CPUs save power by delaying their full performance.

Rebecca Solnit: We Don’t Need to Meet Nazis Halfway - Writing for Lithub, Rebecca Solnit on On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito just complained that “you can’t say that marriage ...

Find your inner poet with help from America's greats - *Behold! the living thrilling lines* *That course the blood like madd'ning wines,* *And leap with scintillating spray* *Across the guards of ecstasy.* ...

living/writing in privilege, or in the trial? - Rescue the perishing; don’t hesitate to step in and help. If you say, “Hey, that’s none of my business,” will that get you off the hook? Someone is watchin...

Today is Worldwide Backup Day - Google is not your friend, it’s a tool. It’s been 2,702 days since they shut down Google Reader and people still remember. Or consider that Google can shut...

Watch the mind-blowing skills of the farmworkers harvesting your Thanksgiving dinner - The United Farm Workers shared a series of videos of their members at work. They’re mesmerizing. If cooking Thanksgiving dinner involves a lot of labor, ...

Sweden extends rule of eight to seated events - All public events in Sweden for more than eight people will be banned after the country's regions agreed to lower the limit for seated events from 50 to ei...

Daily Prayers #149 Fairest Lord Jesus - Colossians 1:15-17 Hymn Monday – Fairest Lord Jesus ***

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Something Best Enjoyed in Pajamas with a Snuggle on the Side - The Christmas season will soon be upon us. Unfortunately, the Covid season still hangs on. Perhaps this little bedtime story will help soften the edges ...

Ted Lasso is the soccer coach we all need - What if kindness, honesty, and compassion were valued more than winning?

What is an Evangelical? - I have been hanging around Internet Monk for about thirteen years now, and writing for it for almost as long. This has been a journey for me, and part of t...

Free Care and Support for Women in Ministry - There are times you need help from other people to care for you. It's not a sign of weakness to ask for help; it's simply a sign of humanity and humility...

4. A Growing Houghton Campus and Faculty (1912-1936) - Brick from Seminary and Bedford now in Nieslen1. At a 1912 alumni meeting, H. Clark Bedford urged the need for a gymnasium. It was one of those spark momen...

A Japanese septuagenarian in his half-century-old restaurant - The warmth and laid back nature of this septuagenarian restaurant owner resulted in the sort of welcome one always hopes for. That lovely, and in this case...

Essay by Debie Thomas: *Because You Hid Yourself* for Sunday, November 29, 2020 - Weekly essay on the Revised Common Lectionary.

Inmates, hope, and Prison Reform - I just finished an online meeting for people involved in prison work. It had people from Prison Fellowship, a warden whom I will not name, Americans for Pr...

iPhones just got more helpful with Gmail, Drive and Fit widgets - When iPhone 12 was released a few weeks ago, we launched helpful widgets for your favorite Google apps on iOS. Over the next few days, we’re adding more ...

New Investment: Vegetable Dryers Raising Farmer Incomes - Acumen India has invested in S4S Technologies, a company whose solar-powered drying machines are increasing smallholder farmers’ incomes while reducing f...

Covid as Kairos Moment: an interview with a Ugandan Priest - https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/social-justice/deep-solidarity Deep Solidarity An Interview Emmanuel Katongole August 12, 2020 In This Articl...

Watch: Voter Who Died In 1984 Sent In Mail Ballot To Michigan Election - DETROIT (VINnews) – While Republicans and Democrats argue over the results in Michigan, where a mysterious large number of postal ballots appeared the ni...

Moved to Medium - Finally, I’ve decided to make the move — to Medium. This garden will remain here as an archive. For new writing, welcome to … sivinkit.medium.com The follo...

GO ENGLISH CLUB Goes Forth - After a hiatus that began on March 13 we resumed GO ENGLISH CLUB on Friday, October 23, from 4:00-5:00 pm with 14 participants. It is exciting to see th...

Happy, healthy humans. - The other day I was giving my older two kids a pep-talk about how to be happy, healthy humans. As my kids get older, the list of things I feel is cruc...

All for his Glory - *Excellences and weaknesses are both for God's glory and not ours.* It is false humility to discount the excellences that God has given, as these ar...

100 Easy Ways to Help The Environment - In Your Home – Conserve Energy Clean or replace air filters on your air conditioning unit at least once a month. If you have central air conditioning, do n...

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How to get prepared for the first consultation with your workers’ compensation attorney? - After getting injured at a workplace, the victim must have tons of questions in his mind, including whether he should consult an attorney or not? Will he/s...

Your Kingdom Come - When I am awake at night, I often think my way through the Lord’s Prayer. That may sound like rote praying, but it’s far from that. I’ve found that the pra...

Eric Metaxas punching a man on a bike - First tweet: https://twitter.com/AndyRowell/status/1299415158322855944 Last tweet: https://twitter.com/AndyRowell/status/1299787151115132928 Whole thread: ...

A New Find, From Oldsmar - My friend William asked me if this could be a photo of his dad playing the uke in 1920 at a picnic in Oldsmar, Florida. I said "It might be, but this is...

Things to Do (from the Psalms) - I created a spreadsheet called Things to Do (from the Psalms). It started as a list of things the Psalms tell us to do. Then I decided I wanted to be abl...

What I’ve Learned About Evangelism Over Five Decades - I led my first person to Christ in 1956 on a street corner in Austin Texas. I was seventeen and on fire. I used the Four Spiritual Laws and asked him to le...

Dave Jacobs Interview “Steve Sjogren: Still Cleaning Toilets” - Steve Sjogren: Still Cleaning Toilets Dave: Sorry that I haven’t kept up on “All-Things-Sjogren” but the last I heard you had planted a church in Florida...

Confederate Monuments Are A Rewrite of History, Not A Remembrance - Confederate monuments were the product of a campaign to rewrite history, not to preserve it. There were few Confederate monuments in the thirty years after...

2020 Utah Advance Leaders’ Forum - The Leaders’ Forum is a FREE event for Christian pastors, church planters, and other church leaders in the Mormon Corridor. Gain insights from experts and ...

Preparation begins now to separate the winners from losers Post-Covid - Even if you survive this downturn, companies who do not become aggressive, adaptive and opportunistic may never recover. This is the lesson I learned in th...

hmm… - trying again… testing out the blog again, to see if I want to start posting once more. Here? somewhere else? different name? different site? we’ll see… thi...

The Old Man and the Sea: Papa’s Cruciform Writing - La entrada The Old Man and the Sea: Papa’s Cruciform Writing se publicó primero en jesus the radical pastor.

Save an additional 15% on these industry-leading VPNs in honor of President's Day - Presidents’ Day and VPNs may not be a natural fit at first glance. But think about it for a minute. George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were both Ameri...

The Venezuela Conversation at Menlo Church - I am being asked about Venezuela. Last year we hosted an event at Menlo Church which outlined the historical issues and economic problems with Venezuela. W...

Keeping Advent in the midst of marketplace hysteria - In response to some questions on Twitter, I thought I’d offer a few thoughts. I have been delighted and grateful to see that many people from various trad...

Aquinas on emotion, pt. 2 (ST 2.23) - In a previous post I began a commentary on Aquinas' understanding of emotion (or "the passions") as it is laid out in the *Summa theologica*. In that refl...

For Dr. Thompson - (photo credit, John Thompson) “He’s the toughest grader you will have at Fuller!” These words did not ease my anxious spirit that January as I geared up fo...

Commonly Used Toxic Materials in Matresses - As an intern working with Your Guide to Green, I’ve discovered some shocking information about the mattress you sleep on every night. Did you know that t...

Why Your Website Needs to be Secure to Rank Well with Search Engines. - https://www.instagram.com/p/BVVMNcTFVdO/ Search engine optimization is about building your website up to current internet standards and norms. It is the fo...

The Awesome Privilege of Partnership in the Gospel - *By Donn Engebretson, Project Leader of Covenant Kids Congo* “I thank my God every time I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray ...

Joyce's Faith - In my experience I have never seen someone who lives out biblical faith like Joyce. She can lie down in the midst of a maelstrom of danger and, if there is...

NorthWood Church Planting Spring Cohort - NorthWood Church has started over 200 churches that are embedded with the DNA of Northwood. This DNA changes how we make disciples and how we mobilize...

Amazement in Ordinary Time - The day around Bethlehem seemed no different than most: shepherds in the field, people wandering through town, paying taxes! It was just another day of wor...

2019 Standard Mileage Rates - The IRS announced the 2019 Standard Mileage Rates last week. Effective January 1, 2019: - Business: $ .58 (58 cents per mile) - Medical / Moving: ...

Samantha Bee's Christmas Comedy Video Depicts ICE Agents Raiding Nativity Scene - Controversial comedian Samantha Bee who last year described a CPAC attendee as having "Nazi hair" because of the way his head was shave due to stage 4 canc...

Spirit of Justice Park - Something for the "To Do" list for D.C. According to the article: The biggest problem is that rather than sink the parking below grade, the park is rai...

Should Halloween Be Legal In The Church? (Video Podcast) - We decided to do something a little bit different (and a lotta bit weird) and put together this video podcast episode around Halloween and the church’s p...

Why striving to be authentic can be a trap - I suggested to Michaela that when she was delivering the most important parts of her presentation, she stand square to the audience. She pushed back on my ...

Medicine and Religion - I recently sat down with a member of a local parish nursing movement to discuss their work. At the front line of many healthcare issues, they are acutely a...

AfriGadget.com relaunch - We’re back online with our old blog! What started in 2006 by Erik Hersman, founder/co-founder of Ushahidi.com, Brck.com and other ventures, was quickly tur...

Say hello to the new Hire, a smarter, faster way to recruit, by Google - With thelaunch of Hire last year, we simplified the hiring process by integrating it into the tools where recruiters already spend much of their day—Gmai...

Choosing the cheapest cell phone plans - Deciding on the cheapest cell phone plans depend on many variables such as the type of service you want, the type of phone you’re getting and even how many...

The Entertainment Industry - In ut quam sem. Fusce ut ultrices orci. Phasellus orci leo, blandit sit amet ultrices eget, ultricies ac justo. Cras iaculis tortor ac leo ornare tincidunt...

Agoraphobic Traveller, globetrotting from home via Google streetview - Jacqui Kenny is searching for the perfect Google street photo (Wired), as seen on her Instagram feed, Agoraphobic Traveller/ Streetview Portraits. Kenny es...

10 Online Clothing Retailers With Awesome Return Policies - Buying clothes in a store—once the *only* way to shop—now seems almost antiquated. Why limit yourself to merely one designer, or even all the options ava...

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Back to School in India - [image: A]A* is 8 years old, and lives in Wahabpora, India. His father is a daily wage laborer and was not able to pay for his son’s education, so he disc...

Here's How Long You're Contagious When You Have a Cold - Jake Rossen Sooner or later, cold or flu germs are going to take up unsolicited residence in your system. And next to the sneezing and coughing, anxiety o...

transitions - Dear friends, Blessings during this Christmas season. I vividly remember a devotion shared by Dave Kersten at one of our staff retreats. He noted from John...

The Church Then and Now - ABIDING IS THE SECRET OF FRUITFULNESS–John 15:1-8 Whereas most people speak in terms of wanting to be successful, Jesus emphasizes that his servants shou...

Fall trip to Guam and Micronesia - *Speaking in chapel on the Guam campus*In spite of being sick most of the time, I consider my fall trip to Guam and Micronesia to be a major success. I me...

Muslim Dating And How It’s Done - As a single or unattached Muslim you have probably visited several Muslim matrimonial websites with the hope of finding your Muslim match or better half. M...

Apostolic Succession & Me - Several months ago I led a Bible study of 1 Peter 1. It starts out "Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ." 1 Peter is an encyclical. circulating through the...

In honor of Rosa Parks: Quiet, confident, strong, courageous, prophetic…and a follower of Christ. - Rosa Parks. This woman. Quiet but not timid. Confident but not arrogant. Fierce but not violent. Strong, Courageous, and Prophetic. …and a follower of Chri...

- This year has been different. For months before marriage God spoke to my heart of new things, prepared my soul to cling to His promise, “Behold, I am doing...

"To Rest" is a Verb, or Confessions of a List Maker - I'm a list maker. Not just a grocery list maker--a To-Do List maker. On Sunday evening I make a *To Do* list for the week ahead. It's stream-of-consciousn...

Myers-Briggs is dead long live Myers-Briggs - Some of my students at George Fox have asked me about this article that declares the Myers-Briggs test to be totally meaningless. Then I’ve seen it re-post...

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- I'm heading back to Jerusalem! For another volunteer experience with Bridges for Peace. During my previous times there, I blogged about everything I did an...

New DMin course at South University on world and new religions - I am pleased to recommend a new online DMin course through South University College of Theology on world religions. I was asked to design this 11 week cou...

Intimacy - *“When Covenanters worship, we celebrate God’s story through expressions rooted in our culture. Our worship creates a sense of intimacy with both God and o...

Help Needed – With Love - Sometimes it is so obvious that God is moving that it is almost frightening. It is sort of like being invited into an event that is already orchestrated, b...

There once was a blog - Last month Rebecca said "If you're going to keep listing the blog in our church newsletter, you should update it sometime." Which makes perfect sense. It ...

My Friend and Kindred Spirit - Dr. Chris Perez and Dr. Debbie Erickson Let me tell you about my friend, Dr. Debbie. I was immediately drawn to Debbie because she, like me, is a haole (Ca...

On Christmas - I was young when I understood how cruel the world was. I grew up on a sheep and cattle ranch and witnessed life and death in its rawness. A prairie chick...

Common Places: A New Forum for Old Conversations - Michael Allen and Scott Swain, editors of Common Places [We just launched a new version of this blog. We recommend you read Allen and Swain's new post here...

Mengenal Filosofi - *Filosofi* atau *filsafat* adalah ilmu yang membahas tentang fenomena atau gejala yang terjadi di dunia secara mendasar dan kritis. Filosofi merupakan ilmu...

- Our friends from Redwood City are due to arrive this afternoon. The whole team will be with us here in Marseille for a little over a week. But two of th...

Bunk Bed Giveaway! - Epoch Design stocks their furniture in Costco stores, and the company is giving away a McKenzie Twin bunk bed set from the Redding store! We've been plann...

Merry Christmas - Christmas trees come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Guam has its share of such variety. Just imagine this particular tree as ours this year! Thanks....

New Academic Dean for Institute for Worship Studies - Today, the Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies (where I serve on the board of trustees) announced the appointment of a new academic dean. IWS is...

How are apps making prayer social - Here in San Francisco this weekend for the hackathon event, Code for the Kingdom (presented by Leadership Network, Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, Carpente...

Steps To Setting Up A Home Based Small Business - The steps we are showcasing here are not just applicable for an online business but for any small business. What’s the difference between a hobby and a bus...

Sack that QUARTERBACK! - This was the first year for tackle football in our home! It was exciting and frightening all at the same time. Luckily for me - the worrying Mother - Cale...

A New Blog - If by some miracle there's anyone who still ventures by these parts, I thought I'd let you know that I started a new blog today. It's called "Clipping In, ...

ReKnew - ReKnew has been launched! I'm excited to share with you my new website and updated blog posts HERE. You'll find a wealth of material on the new site that w...

WE ARE MOVING! - In a spirit of itineracy, the Bishop's blog is moving to a new web page. You can now find Bishop Willimon's blogs, articles, videos, and podcasts at his ow...

A Time To Blog & A Time To Stop - As I type this post I'm thinking of Ecclesiastes 3--if I'm honest, it's actually the Birds singing the song patterned after the text: To everything, turn, ...

UPDATE & NDY GIG - Hello blog peeps. Long time no talk (except I yap everyday on Twitter). I miss this!! I didn’t intent to blog again until the ReKnew site was launched (af...

No words necessary - I came across a picture the other night on Facebook that I promptly shared. It had no explanation, no tag, no link, no credit, no nothing. Just a 4-word ph...

The Emperor's Garden - The Emperor instructed the gardener to set up the new court's garden. "I want you to plant five trees growing the Crataan fruit," the Emperor said, "Becaus...

Lessons from the Journey III - This one is a very simple one. The lesson is *Servanthood*. Simply put, it's been the discovery of the joy that can be found in serving others. This has fo...

Leaving TypePad - This blog has existed on TypePad since its inception. However, as of tonight (overnight in the Western Hemisphere) it will be migrating to a WordPress inst...

Baccalaureate & Graduation 2011: PIU - Sunday, May 8, PIU held it "Graduates' Worship Service" at Onnuri Korean Church in Mangilao, Guam. Here at the left are the ladies that graduated . . . ...

Combined A/G institution would be named Evangel University - This important tidbit of info slipped past my previous reading of a news release from the Assemblies of God about the proposal to consolidate Evangel Unive...

Off and Running - Spring Semester 2011 is off and running and is already in it's fourth week. Pictured here are some of our girls meeting for dorm devotions on the basketbal...

Penguins (Thanks Mick) - Did you ever wonder why there are no dead penguins on the ice in Antarctica – where do they go? Wonder no more ! ! ! It is a known fact that the penguin is...

Merry Christmas - *A **Nativity Scene** was erected in a church yard. * *During the night the folks came across this scene.* [image: cid:62497D5087054ABB9D219A397FA8372E@PREF...

We're moving...in cyberworld, anyway. - It's time. Farewell Blogger...we're moving on to easier places that inspire me to blog, unlike this unfavorable service you provide. They even imported all...

Reflections on Benedict XVI's visit to Britain - Cambridge, England, September 20, 2010 I have spent the last few days watching the coverage of the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Britain. The Pope has show...

Students Lobby for Smart Phones in Class - This falls under the Changing Times category. It also falls under the "I'm feeling older" category. These suggestions may sound strange to people in my gen...

Case Studies (LOP 65 F) - Editor’s Note: This is an edited version of a paper delivered at the Consultation of the Lausanne Theology Working Group in partnership with the WEA Theolo...

New Site Design with New RSS Feed - Hey RSS Subscribers, We’ve finally redesigned the Church Marketing Sucks blog, and with the new look comes a new RSS feed. We hope you’ll check out the sit...

Apparently, Video Games Are Good For You... - By John Asante Remember all those times that mother dearest would tell you to "put down the controller, step away from the TV, go outside, and run around,"...

Take a Flying Leap - I'd like to take a moment to write about a misunderstood little rodent who makes his home in the Great White North. I'm speaking of the stout and furry "le...

LONG awaited update! - Dear Family Around the World, Greetings in the Love and Grace of Jesus! I know it has been many months since my last missal; as always, thanks for your p...

All for Now - That's all for now on the NLT Study Bible blog. We very well might renew this blogging effort in the future, but for now I'm focused on other things. I wou...

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SPOTLIGHTS: Back in the Land of Blog - Greetings, I have not blogged for 1 year. But I am thinking that this is a valuable tool that I should be contributing to, so I am going to give it another...

I FIND THIS VERY INTERESTING! - Rare Brown and White Panda Could be the Result of Inbreeding http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/01/rare-brown-and-white-panda-could-be-the-result-of-inbre...

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES IN ZAMBIA AND UGANDA - *Volunteer OpportunityJusto Mwale Theological University CollegeLusaka, Zambia* *Overview:* JMTUC was founded almost thirty years ago to serve both the R...

Last post - This is my last post on grow-a-brain. Thanks for the nearly 20,000,000 visitors who checked in during the 7 years I blogged here. I can be found at my new,...

I'm Moving! - My blog was moved...click here! Check it out! Check out my photos, too!

BREAKING NEWS: NIV to be updated! - I (Peter Kirk) just received from Zondervan a letter announcing that the NIV Bible is to be updated in 2011. The announcement is at this website. Here are ...

CFBA Tour: Offworld - Check out my post about the current offering from the CFBA tour: Offworld, by Robin Parrish.

Orthodox Benedictine Monastery Receives Favorable Media Coverage - I'm very late in posting this, but I'm thrilled to see Christminster Monastery in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, is receiving yet more positive coverage. Repor...

Buyer Beware Nationstar Mortgage, Champion Mortgage - People who know me, know that I'm not a complainer or whiner by nature, but sometimes you just gotta let it out. Watch out for Nationstar Mortgage in Lewisv...

Mark Study #14: Lord of the Sabbath - Step into the study, pour yourself a cup of coffee, get comfortable and let’s enjoy the Gospel of Mark. Our scripture this week is Mark 2:23-28 “One Sabbat...

Oh Those Pesky 'Angels and Demons' - At this point it is hard to believe all the ruckus that was caused by Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, which, when people calmed down, they realized it was...

Musing......no A at the front, though it might work... - I think teaching English has done something to my sudden fascination with letters...."a" and "e" blogs being too close together..... It's strange to think ...

The Inauguration and the Third Culture President - It’s just the beginning. We are celebrating what many consider a dream fulfilled. Of course, there are still conflicts, racism, prejudice and stereot...

ALL CLEAR: FeedMedic Alert for http://feeds.feedburner.com/FeedbulletinForLandres - Your Source Feed, http://feeds.feedburner.com/~u/landres, is now working fine. Carry on! We will let you know if anything bad happens in the future.

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