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Half the world’s population (3 billion+) lives on less than $2 per day. One billion live on less than $1 per day. To communicate this idea to the senior high youth we went on a field trip to Ogle’s to see if we could buy enough food to live on for a day with just [...]
“One of the gravest threats to the North American church is the
deception of power—the deception of being at the center. Those at the
center tend to think, ‘The future belongs to us. We are the shapers of
tomorrow. The process of gospel transmission, the process of
mission—all of it is on our terms, because we are powerful, because [...]
“God’s church has traditionally been more beautiful when it lives out its mission from the margins of society.” -David Zac Niringiye (Uganda)
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“If a man dies, will he live again?”
-Job 14:14a
That is really the question of Easter isn’t it. Anyone here personally know anyone who has come back to life after being dead?
In this modern age of science we have learned a lot about death.
In fact, science has identified many kinds of death that can affect [...]
From an article in the NY Times (via 43 Folders):
“Several research reports, both recently published and not yet published, provide evidence of the limits of multitasking. The findings, according to neuroscientists, psychologists and management professors, suggest that many people would be wise to curb their multitasking behavior when working in an office, studying or driving [...]
from the new yorker via ysmarko
A Conversation at the Grownup Table, as Imagined at the Kids’ Table
by simon rich
MOM: Pass the wine, please. I want to become crazy.
DAD: O.K.
GRANDMOTHER: Did you see the politics? It made me angry.
DAD: Me, too. When it was over, I had sex.
UNCLE: I’m having sex right now.
DAD: We all are.
MOM: [...]
I’m a ‘digger’. I get my news socially and digitally via web2.0. Many times you hear about a news story because your friend will say “did you hear that…” or because it is the discussion around the ‘watercooler’ or because you simply overheard a conversation. Now take this phenomenon, put it on the internet and [...]
The number of people in abject poverty today is as great as the population of mankind in 1900.
It would take $40 billion to provide the world with safe drinking water. The US is spending almost $70 billion in research and development of new weapons.
“We mostly spend [our] lives conjugating three verbs: to want, to have, and to do. Craving, clutching and fussing, we are kept in perpetual unrest.” -Evelyn Underhill
From Dream Awakener:
The human mind is a wonderfully complex organ. Our brains can actually process a group of words, even if they are spelled totally incorrectly. For example, see if you can read the following:
The hmuan mnid is a wndoreullfy cpoemlx oargn. You see? It deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod [...]