Brad Boydston's Regular Reads

Anxious about anxiety - How can we overcome our anxiety? And should we even try?

We are still mythical - Under May / there is a gulf that separates us and it seems to gape a little wider every day. / Now watch her pray on every tragedy. / Divide divide and fre...

Getting Dressed in the 1700s - You've seen tons of portraits of 18th century women like Martha Washington and Marie Antoinette, and while you know what their clothes look like, you pro...

Google must stop demoting competitors in search results, EU rules - Google smacked with €2.4B fine by European Commission for abusing search monopoly.

Ten ways to enjoy your Stockholm summer like a Stockholmer - We asked Stockholmers for their best summer tips. Warning: a lot of them relate to sun-bathing and ice cream.

Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion By EU For Skewing Searches - Google suffered a major regulatory blow on Tuesday after European antitrust officials fined the search giant 2.4 billion euros, or $2.7 billion, for unfair...

The European Commission decision on online shopping: the other side of the story - When you shop online, you want to find the products you’re looking for quickly and easily. And advertisers want to promote those same products. That's wh...

Worth reconsidering? - The status quo is powerful indeed. We add layers, patches and small improvisations, all to shore up something we don't want to reconsider. If we had a clea...

Nasdaq’s Trekkie CEO Wants To Modernize Wall Street With Blockchain, VR, And Anything Else That Sticks - Adena Friedman, the first woman to run a U.S. stock exchange, needs to look for growth outside of Nasdaq’s comfort zone. It’s Friday morning at Nasdaq he...

at the heart of the gospel - And Mary said: “My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has been mindful of the humble state of his servant. Fro...

The Revival of Civil Religion - Here is an announcement from the website of First Baptist Dallas. Their pastor, Robert Jeffress, has been one of evangelical Christianity’s prime cheerlead...

Ozzy Osbourne's favorite metal albums - Rolling Stone magazine asked the Prince of Darkness to list his ten favorite metal albums. Here are five of Ozzy's sure-shots: *AC/DC, 'Highway to Hell'...

Ozzy Osbourne's favorite metal albums - Rolling Stone magazine asked the Prince of Darkness to list his ten favorite metal albums. Here are five of Ozzy's sure-shots: *AC/DC, 'Highway to Hell'...

Paul Novel 4.2: Down to Jerusalem - Continued from last week. Previous chapters now archived ______________________ So after a few weeks back in Antioch, Paul and Barnabas were ready to go up ...

The Day the Revolution Began, by NT Wright #2 - [image: Wright]This is my second week for reading through, for my New Testament devotions and study, *The Day the Revolution Began: Reconsidering the Mea...

Google search data shows “a crisis of self-induced abortions” - For his book Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz combed through data ...

For Frequent Travelers, The Chase Sapphire Reserve Is A Core Holding - The Chase Sapphire Reserve is the step up version of our readers’ favorite travel rewards credit card, the Chase Sapphire Preferred. If you’re a frequent...

Supreme Court Orders States to List Same-Sex Parents on Birth Certificates; Gorsuch Dissents - The United States Supreme Court has reversed a lower court that upheld an Arkansas law that treated same-sex and opposite-sex married couples differently r...

Updates from ISTE: new tools to empower our future explorers and digital citizens - *Editor's note: This week our Google for Education team will be joining thousands of educators at the annual ISTE conference in San Antonio. Follow along...

Cop injures fellow cop in St. Louis, more white on black law enforcement violence - This past couple of years, there has been a national conversation going on about cops shooting black suspects. While it has not always been white on black ...

An elderly Tokyo trio - A rest and varied reactions outside Tsukiji fish market.

Essay: *Like a Loving Physician* by Dan Clendenin for Sunday, July 2, 2017 - Weekly essay on the Revised Common Lectionary.

As G Suite gains traction in the enterprise, G Suite’s Gmail and consumer Gmail to more closely align - Google’s G Suite business is gaining enormous traction among enterprise users. G Suite usage has more than doubled in the past year among large business ...

[Common Places] Sanctification: “This Is to Preach Christ” - *Our current series, Sanctification, looks at elements of the **forth**coming volume** by Michael Allen in the New Studies in Dogmatics series. * *[image...

The Reformation in Your Pocket - ‘I don’t know of a better brief introduction to the Reformation and its continuing importance today,’ says Vaughan Roberts, Lausanne plenary speaker and ...

Sunday School Crafts For Kids - A Sharefaith Kids Interview with Daniel Warvel. Sunday School crafts have long been a staple of kids Bible lessons – and for good reason! They promote fi...

Erasing the Shame of Mental Illness - Quite the honor and privilege to be here at the inaugural Honor Shame Conference 2017 at Wheaton College, near Chicago. This is very pioneering work to b...

Whose life is it? and whose death? - Having just finished a longish blog post on "Resistance as a Christian Calling," I thought I'd take a vacation. *The New York Times* had other plans. This ...

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Downwind Doodlings - Why is God silent? Because the tree of trust has silence for its roots. God moves in mysterious ways, but he also moves in quite pedestrian ways. He walk...

Solar Home Systems: Over-investment or overvaluation? - When you hear the term “unicorn,” you usually think of Silicon Valley. Your mind goes to companies like AirBnB and Snapchat, startups that seem to grow f...

How to open your talk with a question - Do you sometime struggle to decide how to open your presentations? We know that the way we begin is important – it creates the first impression that the...

Canada Day Plan Ideas Needed - Okay for the last year I have been planning to spend Canada Day in Banff. Then cancer hit and I have been getting sicker by the day. I assume by July 1st...

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Work - I received a couple of emails this weeks inquiring about an onsite consultation. They told me their sad story (and believe me, it was sad and detailed) and...

Homemade Cannoli Filling - With my homemade ricotta cheese, I made this cannoli filling from a recipe that was posted on Washpo. I got the cannoli shells from an Italian deli and gro...

New Article: Should Churches Continue to Reimburse Cell Phone Fees? - I just released an article for publication addressing whether churches and ministries should continue reimbursing some staff for their cell phone and int...

Seven lessons I learned in Abu Dhabi - 30 Leaders from 10 different cities gathered together in Abu Dhabi early May 2017 for a Multi-Faith event. Every city leadership had representations of t...

The Church, Messy As It Is, It's God's Plan, For Now, And For The Future - After a lifetime of pastoral ministry in a small town church, I'm called on to teach a class on the*Ecclesiology:* after four decades + of preaching, coun...

Old link: Memory - This old *Wired* article is called The Forgetting Pill Erases Painful Memories Forever. I'm not interested in the angle of the title. I think it would be a...

Spinning Light into Sound: Strauss' "Rosenkavalier" - I savored both Renée Fleming and Elīna Garanča; but the sets and costumes were disappointing. Why do directors insist on deconstructing operas, and reassem...

726. Attending to hope, faith, and love - Lately I've been revisiting what St. Ignatius referred to as consolations and desolations. Thinking about and identifying occurrences of each over the cour...

Health Update - OK, some of you are asking about about my health. I am really well and feeling super healthy, apart from having to take a short nap every afternoon. My ski...

Bethany Baptist Church - This coming Sunday, April 30, Ned will be preaching at Bethany Baptist Church, 164 Douglass Street, Reading PA 19601, at 10:15 am. We hope some of you c...

APEST and discussion about functions in the church - I commented on a post written by Bob Robinson and introduced by Scot McKnight at Scot's blog: Evaluating the APEST Theory of Church Flourishing (Bob Robins...

Carpe Datum! Paragraphs from "Galileo's Middle Finger" - Alice Dreger's "Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science," is one of the most refreshing books I have read recen...

25 Great Articles and Essays by David Foster Wallace - David Sedaris writes personal stories, funny tales about his life growing up in a Greek family outside of Raleigh, ., about working as an elf in Santa's Fr...

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Rietumu Banka - FX jest najbardziej płynnym rynku i największy na świecie przy użyciu obroty w wysokości około $ 4 bilionów dolarów. Trades ilość z dnia na dzień przewyższ...

Refugee Test Case     - President Trump’s ban on refugees entering the US promises to be temporary, and I hope that turns out to be the case. Refugees are some of the most vulnera...

Milk Supply Functions at Factor and Product Prices - Introduction: The prosperity of any nation is closely intertwined with the socio-economic and health status of its people. And, raising the milk producti...

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...

A Tribute to Carrie Fisher and Prozac - She knew something was off kilter when she woke up a night to find she was in the middle of a busy street in Mexico City in only a nightgown. She had no re...

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...

Resource: Choosing a Church - As a pastor in Utah, Jonathan Stoddard has frequent conversations with people on their way out of Mormonism who are looking for a new spiritual home. He of...

New Thoughts for a New Year - I have not written a post since 2015. The reflective words stopped finding a place here. My life has changed in some pretty big ways. I am no longer a sitt...

Simple Cell Phones for Senior Citizens - Some will ask the question of why the cell phones for seniors would need to be any different from the more typical type of cell phone The reason for this i...

3 Latest Interior Design Tools for those Without a Hope - Isn’t it a blessing to live in the 21st century? 20 or so years ago you’d have been left with nothing more than a couple of magazines and a re-run of Lawre...

stuff and latelies (4) - Another little burst of picture fun from the last few months.... These girls do get along a lot of the time, but they have some moments that just bless my ...

October 13 (day 287 of 365) - Old Testament Jeremiah 29:24-32, Jeremiah 30, Jeremiah 31:1-14 New Testament 2 Thessalonians 2 Psalms & Proverbs Psalm 119:33-40

Evangelical Views of the 2016 Election: Swimming Against the Stream, An Evangelical Vote for Gary Johnson - Women's Ministry Council Co-Founder is a long-time Libertarian. In the history of the United States, when Americans have begun to question or feel as if ...

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...

Shift from working IN to ON your company - Over the years I’ve worked with a number of entrepreneurs looking to grow their companies. One of the more common sticking points is that they need to tra...

A New Vision for Theological Education - The old way of doing seminary simply will not succeed in a new and changing ecclesial landscape The church (the future church, not the church of the prese...

Crowds (Brain Dump Sketch) - --- Twitter Facebook (C) Laura Springer [image: Creative Commons License] Musings of a peripatetic wannabe-sage by Laura Springer is licensed under a Crea...

Congo’s Camp Zulu is Growing! - MERCI MINGI to all the Covenant Campers and the Camp Staff for ALL they gave last summer for the Zulu Camp Project in Congo. Over $50,000 was raised to hel...

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...

For Tamir - My friend died this year His cancer, amoral Cancer comes like rain, That good and evil alike receive It chokes children, rich , smart , poor, valuable, thr...

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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The DIY Three-Wheeler - Kevin Becker recently moved to Kenya and built this great DIY three-wheeler for his son. “My son wants to be outside all of the time. This three-wheel cart...

- 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...

Zero Waste in Real Life: Including Zero Waste Pioneers You Won’t Believe - The Trash Problem The EPA reports that in 2012 Americans disposed of about 251 million tons of solid waste; that’s almost 4.5 pounds per person per day. A ...

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...

The End | The Beginning - Dear visitors and friends, This garden (blog) has been a wonderful experience for me. After being less active on it the last three years, I wondered whethe...

What I Did on My Summer Vacation - I am now back in the office and reflecting on my summer break. This year Kara and I made no big trips as a couple or family. We cleaned the house getting r...

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

Thailand, last day of visit -

- 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...

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...

- August 2 It's Flame Tree season on Guam right now. The photo of this tree comes from one of Guam's small public parks. These trees are large and lovely, an...

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...

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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