Author: Glen

Para­graph 7: “When you are a pro­fes­sion­al artist, mean­ing that you are mak­ing a liv­ing off your work, you do learn to say good bye to your work every day.  That is what it means to be mak­ing a liv­ing.  A friend recent­ly told me that this is sim­i­lar to a farmer not get­ting too attached to ani­mals that will be slaugh­tered.  Not a pleas­ant thought, but appro­pri­ate, some­how, as the art is feed­ing us, and my attach­ment can­not be too deep either.”

Mako­to Fujimu­ra | Sandy, Gold­en Sea and Dil­lon Gallery

When I spoke at the last IAM gath­er­ing on “Cul­ture Care,” I referred to the com­ing par­a­digm shift for the gal­leries of Chelsea. I paint­ed a rather gloomy pic­ture. Nev­er did I imag­ine then the cat­a­stro…

Impres­sive: “A new study by Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty pro­fes­sors shows that it is vaster than per­haps any­one imag­ined, with 39,900 active for-prof­it com­pa­nies that can trace their begin­nings to Stan­ford. In addi­tion to found­ing busi­ness­es, Stan­ford grad­u­ates have also cre­at­ed some 30,000 non­prof­it orga­ni­za­tions. In fact, there are so many busi­ness­es with Stan­ford roots that if they formed an inde­pen­dent coun­try, their com­bined rev­enue of $2.7 tril­lion annu­al­ly would make it the 10th-largest econ­o­my in the world, gen­er­at­ing an esti­mat­ed 5.4 mil­lion jobs since the 1930s…”

Stan­ford grad­u­ates have enor­mous impact

[…] there are so many busi­ness­es with Stan­ford roots that if they formed an inde­pen­dent coun­try, their com­bined rev­enue of $2.7 tril­lion annu­al­ly would make it the 10th-largest econ­o­my in the world,…

Who­ev­er thought of this is a genius of com­pas­sion. The name is reli­gious — I won­der if the idea was brought for­ward by some­one of faith.

The Peo­ple’s Bailout: Occu­py is for­giv­ing per­son­al debt

Occu­py Wall Street con­tin­ues to show that it’s more than just a sim­ple protest move­ment. They have been doing amaz­ing work with Hu

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.

These are pret­ty wise thoughts from Sam Storms. I recent­ly heard a friend remind a room of pas­tors that we don’t serve an ele­phant and we don’t serve a don­key. We serve the lion who is a lamb.

Think­ing about the Elec­tion from a Bib­li­cal Point of View (Sam Storms) | Parch­ment and Pen

This past week I came across a state­ment by Mar­vin Olasky con­cern­ing the nation­al elec­tion on Tues­day: “Sin­ful humans with all our quirks will decide who con­trols the White House and Con­gress. But und…

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…

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…