Author: Glen

Tim Keller and Andy Stan­ley? Yes, please. Great read for pas­tors and oth­er min­istry lead­ers.

Bal­anc­ing Acts | Lead­er­ship Jour­nal

Tim Keller and Andy Stan­ley explain what it takes to get min­istry right.

Yikes. I love me some Craig Keen­er — but 2.5 mil­lion words on Acts?

Keen­er on Acts of the Apos­tles

Of the mak­ing of com­men­taries on bib­li­cal writ­ings, there is much, increas­ing­ly so (it seems) in recent decades, often in var­i­ous series, each with its own intend­ed focus, read­er­ship, and approach.……

The chart at the end is awe­some.

Are psy­chopaths more like­ly to become crim­i­nal­s… or CEOs?

Bark­ing Up The Wrong Tree. I want to under­stand why we do what we do and use the answers to be awe­some at life. JOIN OVER 28000 READERS! Get a week­ly update with exclu­sive con­tent. No spam, ever. Ente…

Truth.

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I’ve got noth­ing against Apple, It’s its fan club I can’t stand.

Mam­pires. Heh.

Why Milk?

Through­out evo­lu­tion­ary his­to­ry, most adult homo sapi­ens could not drink milk. Even today, most adults can­not drink milk. Adults who can­not drink milk don’t seem to lose very much, par­tic­u­lar­ly as the…

I real­ly like Ross Douthat. He says the things I think, but he says them very artic­u­late­ly and from a promi­nent plat­form.

The Press and Abor­tion, Revis­it­ed

Richard Mour­dock and the medi­a’s blind­ers on abor­tion.

This seems basi­cal­ly cor­rect to me.

What are the four things that kill rela­tion­ships?

John Gottman can lis­ten to a cou­ple for 5 min­utes and deter­mine, with 91% accu­ra­cy, whether they’ll divorce. He was fea­tured in Mal­colm Glad­well’s book Blink. Gottman’s researched mar­riage for over 40…

I love kids.

Why do kids cov­er their eyes when they’re hid­ing?

Chil­dren often close or cov­er their eyes to hide, and researchers at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cam­bridge want­ed to find out why. Click thr

What a stun­ning exam­ple of media bias. As far as I can tell, it is com­plete­ly uncon­scious. I believe the first way to frame the sto­ry nev­er even crossed the mind of the reporter or the edi­tor.

MSM’s upside-down Chick-fil‑A sand­wich

Chick-fil‑A has some­thing not all that sur­pris­ing to crow about. Con­sumer use, vis­its and ad aware­ness were all up mea­sur­ably in the third quar­ter, at a time the chick­en chain enjoyed a remark­able out…

This is a help­ful insight.

Chil­dren & Dogs: More on Mark 7:24–30

One fur­ther obser­va­tion about the lit­tle scene between Jesus and the Syro-Phoeni­cian woman in Mark 7:24–30 is that the ini­tial response ascribed to Jesus is not a deroga­to­ry ref­er­ence to the woman,.…..