Month: January 2003

The Unfinished Task

I just ran across an inter­est­ing site that gives up-to-the-minute esti­mates of the state of world evan­ge­liza­tion. I don’t know how they arrived at their fig­ures, but I find it inter­est­ing: The Unfin­ished Task

International Students at Stanford

Stu­dents from around the world come to study at Stan­ford.

I came across this infor­ma­tion regard­ing inter­na­tion­al stu­dent enroll­ment at Stan­ford. Some of the infor­ma­tion is a year or two out-of-date (which sur­prised me–it seems like this could be dynam­i­cal­ly gen­er­at­ed from a data­base and be 100% accu­rate at all times).

1/3 of all grad stu­dents are inter­na­tion­al, as are 1/20 of all under­grads. That works out to some­thing like 20–25% of all Stan­ford stu­dents hail from anoth­er coun­try.

The Top Ten For­eign Nations (among grad­u­ate stu­dents)

  • Chi­na
  • Korea
  • India
  • Cana­da
  • Tai­wan
  • France
  • Japan
  • Sin­ga­pore
  • Turkey
  • Mex­i­co

Talk about poten­tial for glob­al impact!

Minor Site Tweak

I get even more Flash-ified.

I just redesigned the site nav­i­ga­tion­al sys­tem using Flash. It should degrade grace­ful­ly (mean­ing that if you can’t run Flash, you should still be able to use the site).

Now that the site nav­i­ga­tion­al sys­tem is in Flash, I can do some pret­ty cool things with it. I’ll try to restrain myself from doing any­thing too obnox­ious (but I’d like to do some cool stuff that still loads quick­ly… feel free to post links to sites that you think use Flash well in the com­ments).

I’m still hop­ing to post some book mus­ings soon. We’ll see…

Whew–one long day

dri­ving to church­es all day long

Yes­ter­day Paula and I got up at 5:30am to dri­ve to a church in Sal­i­da to share with them about our min­istry, and then we drove to Sono­ra to share at that church.

We did­n’t get home until 11:30 at night!

Still, we had a great day. Both the church­es were swell (although very dif­fer­ent).

I’ve been mean­ing to post some reflec­tions on books I’ve read late­ly. Hope­ful­ly I’ll get a chance to do that some­time tonight…

The Wilberforce Forum

The Wilber­force Forum is a col­lec­tion of excel­lent resources for thought­ful Chris­tians.

At present, they have resources in the
* Arts
* Lit­er­a­ture
* Phi­los­o­phy
* Sci­ence & Math
* His­to­ry and Polit­i­cal Sci­ence

They have more dis­ci­plines in the works. Looks like some­thing to book­mark!

Happy New Year!

Woohoo–we’re back!

salt2002.jpgWe just got back from Chi Alpha’s Win­ter Con­fer­ence yes­ter­day. Wow!

It’s hard to sum­ma­rize a mul­ti-day con­fer­ence in a such a brief post­ing, so I’ll con­tent myself with observ­ing that the wor­ship and the teach­ing were both top-notch, and the camp­ground itself was stun­ning­ly beau­ti­ful. The over­whelm­ing major­i­ty of stu­dents that we talked with were hav­ing sig­nif­i­cant spir­i­tu­al expe­ri­ences. It was very cool.

Also, I had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to teach a work­shop called “Rea­son­able Answers to Hon­est Ques­tions” (in which we talked very frankly about han­dling doubts and intel­lec­tu­al chal­lenges to the faith) and I was also able to facil­i­tate a sem­i­nar called “the Idea Exchange” (in which we just shared neat ideas from one cam­pus to anoth­er).

Although the dri­ve back was near­ly eight hours and we were quite tired, we decid­ed to have a joint New Year’s cel­e­bra­tion. We met in one of the stu­den­t’s apart­ments and had a jol­ly old time!

P.S. Expect web­site updates to return to their usu­al fre­quen­cy (once or twice a week).