Category: Asides

short lit­tle sound­bytes

Amazing Story

I usu­al­ly don’t like sports sto­ries, but this was remark­ably com­pelling.

http://pocket.co/sQbN2

Fabulous Final

This is genius. Wow.

Seth’s Blog » Blog Archive » Tyler Cowen’s Unusu­al Final Exam

Tyler [Cowen] once walked into class the day of the final exam and he said. “Here is the exam. Write your own ques­tions. Write your own answers. Hard­er ques­tions and bet­ter answers get more points.” T…

Hooray For Sanity

I am most grat­i­fied by this deci­sion and hope that it rip­ples out to oth­er uni­ver­si­ties.

Chris­tian­i­ty Today Live­blog: Inter­Var­si­ty Re-Instat­ed As New York Uni­ver­si­ty Decides Lead­er­ship Pol­i­cy Is “Com­mon Sense, Not Dis­crim­i­na­tion”

At Chris­tian­i­ty Today, we’re con­stant­ly track­ing impor­tant devel­op­ments in the church and the world. Often we use our net­work of reporters around the world (and for that, vis­it our main site). But we …

Kudos Where Kudos Are Due

My pas­tor just got an arti­cle pub­lished in Rick War­ren’s Min­istry Tool­box. Way to go, Scott!

New NET Bible website is awesome

The NET Bible web­site just got an over­haul and it is awe­some. Check it out (be sure to mouse over the foot­notes). And they seem to have renamed the web por­tion of their project NEXT Bible: http://nextbible.org

Chi Alpha Worldwide on the Facebook

A clever Chi Alphan noticed that the Face­book now sup­ports glob­al groups. So they set up one titled: XA- CHI ALPHA WORLDWIDE ‑XA (I don’t know if that link will work or not — I took out the school pre­fix)

So Chi Alphans world­wide, unite!

My Favorite Line From My Sermon This Week

“Of course, then the witch­es showed up and so we did­n’t get to fin­ish our con­ver­sa­tion.”

Richard Mouw rocks

I just fin­ished read­ing Calvin­ism in the Las Vegas Air­port by Richard Mouw (pres­i­dent of Fuller The­o­log­i­cal Sem­i­nary). It was great. I’ve read one oth­er book of his, Con­sult­ing the Faith­ful: What Chris­t­ian Intel­lec­tu­als Can Learn from Pop­u­lar Reli­gion, and I loved it as well. I’d have to say he’s one of my favorite low-vol­ume authors.

Dog the Bounty Hunter

Dog the Boun­ty Hunter has to be one of the most fas­ci­nat­ing indi­vid­u­als I’ve ever seen on tele­vi­sion. If you ever get a chance to watch the show, I high­ly rec­om­mend it.