I heard a fascinating interview with David Owen, author of Green Metropolis, on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders via the Ideas Network of Wisconsin Public Radio recently. He was making some very provocative comments about sustainable living and how urban centers can teach the entire country some things about true sustainability. Here are a …
Twitter – continuing the conversation
I continue to have a lot of conversations with friends and colleagues about the value and use of technology for ministry. That conversation inevitably touches on Twitter and its uses, whether personal or in ministry contexts. Some friends think it is a total waste of time (David Letterman?). Others think it's fun to follow interesting …
A Word from St. Francis
I recently read this powerful statement from St. Francis of Assisi: "What I am before God, that I am." How often we think of ourselves in terms of what others' opinions are. The truth of our identity, however, is not in what any person thinks of us, whether parent, sibling, lover, friend, enemy, or stranger. …
A Treasured Love Letter
Recently, I was thinking about the great treasure that the Scriptures are to us, but how often they seem less like a treasure and more like a dead weight we carry around. My junior year of college I went to Honduras with a group of students to help a local village install a gravity-fed water …
One nagging thing you still don’t understand about yourself
Tyler Cowen of the Marginal Revolution blog brought to my attention: The email edition of the British Psychological Society's Research Digest has reached the milestone of its 150th issue....To mark the occasion, the Digest editor has invited some of the world's leading psychologists to look inwards and share, in 150 words, one nagging thing they …
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