Author: Glen

Inter­est­ing. I total­ly buy that peo­ple use chap­lains much more than they use coun­selors — that very much aligns with my obser­va­tions. Pas­tors are per­ceived to lis­ten because they love you. Coun­selors are per­ceived to lis­ten because they are paid to. It makes a dif­fer­ence.

60 Sec­ond Sum­ma­ry: The Rise of the Cor­po­rate Chap­lain

Bloomberg Busi­ness­week on the recent growth of cor­po­rate chaplaincy.Bloomberg Busi­ness­week on the recent growth of cor­po­rate chap­lain­cy.

I love how the lit­tle demon bot scans both his mind and his heart. Nice touch.

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Per­son­al web com­ic archive. Show all comics | About this page & Copy­rights. 11th Sep. Sin­fest. by Tat­suya Ishi­da. Tues­day 11th Sep­tem­ber. web com­ic. Show: all strips | oth­er comics | www | rss.

Inter­est­ing. I’ve been hear­ing for years that red wine is healthy for your heart… but I guess that’s like believ­ing that cof­fee is a won­der drug that makes your brain work bet­ter. Peo­ple want it to be true.

Study: Red Wine Is Health­i­er When It’s Non-Alco­holic (Sor­ry)

Research sug­gests the alco­hol in red wine may actu­al­ly be imped­ing the antiox­i­dants’ car­dio­vas­cu­lar ben­e­fits.

Tina Seel­ig’s course on cre­ativ­i­ty looks inter­est­ing.

Stan­ford Offers 16 Free Cours­es This Fall

The uni­ver­si­ty, which pio­neered mas­sive open online cours­es, unveils two new home­grown soft­ware plat­forms to host the cours­es.

This is basi­cal­ly what I believe the Bible’s mes­sage on bribery to be: it is okay to give a bribe when nec­es­sary but nev­er okay to accept one. Con­trast Proverbs 21:14 with Exo­dus 23:8 (among many oth­er rel­e­vant pas­sages). Liv­ing in a fall­en world is com­plex.

Kaushik Basu named as World Bank chief econ­o­mist

Annie Lowrey has the scoop. Excerpt: A paper he released last year caused a bit of a stir: While advis­ing the Indi­an gov­ern­ment, Mr. Basu argued that coun­tries could reduce the inci­dence of “harassme…

I still wish UT had come into the PAC-what­ev­er.

Stan­ford Researchers Explore Why Foot­ball is Entrenched in The Amer­i­can Col­le­giate Expe­ri­ence

The rea­son for this sym­bio­sis between the grid­iron and the class­room is less than obvi­ous.

The num­ber two per­son receives only 2/3 what the num­ber one per­son receives? Wow. For a health­i­er mod­el, I rec­om­mend one sim­i­lar to the one Ted Hag­gard used at New Life Church. Yes. Ted Hag­gard. He describes it in his book The Life Giv­ing Church. It is sim­i­lar to the mod­el described at http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000038.html

How Much Mon­ey Do Megachurch Pas­tors Make?

The study rep­re­sents the The study rep­re­sents the

“ado­les­cent male mon­keys pre­fer play­ing with trucks while ado­les­cent female mon­keys pre­fer dolls” — one of the best and most intrigu­ing sen­tences I have come across in some time.

Scott Adams Blog: Pref­er­ences 09/05/2012

The Offi­cial Dil­bert Web­site fea­tur­ing Scott Adams Dil­bert strips, ani­ma­tion, mashups and more star­ring Dil­bert, Dog­bert, Wal­ly, The Pointy Haired Boss, Alice, Asok, Dog­bert’s New Rul­ing Class and mor…

I am also reg­is­tered as a NPP vot­er (No Par­ty Pref­er­ence) and for sim­i­lar rea­sons. It turns out the ter­mi­nol­o­gy mat­ters in Cal­i­for­nia. Beware lest you acci­den­tal­ly become reg­is­tered as a mem­ber of the Amer­i­can Inde­pen­dent Par­ty. Hap­pened to me, briefly.

Con­fes­sions of an evan­gel­i­cal pas­tor reg­is­tered as an inde­pen­dent vot­er

I first attend­ed an evan­gel­i­cal church in the late 1970s. I was born again by the end of the decade at age 13. I began to pay atten­tion to pol­i­tics, with an eye on how they played out in the church. B…

Use social media? Yes, yes I do. Use twit­ter? No, no I don’t.

Orga­ni­za­tions Lose $1.3 Tril­lion by Not Engag­ing in Social Media — ThomRainer.com

I was shocked. Two pres­i­dents of orga­ni­za­tions began using Twit­ter in the past two months. These are pres­i­dents I know well, lead­ers who for years saw no val­ue in Twit­ter or oth­er social media. As one…