Category: Of Random Interest

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We hosted Anne Crossman, one of the authors of this book, on campus for a talk on maximizing the college experience. She did a great job. This should be a good Q & A.

Freakonomics » How to Get the Best out of College? Bring Your Questions

“Our argument is that most students focus on getting into college, but do not focus adequately on getting out of college. They coast, or make bad decisions, or simply fail to take full advantage of wh…

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Lincoln once said, “I don’t like to hear cut-and-dried sermons. No–when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.” Love the image. 

Book Explores Abraham Lincoln’s ‘Battle With God’

– “Lincoln’s Battle with God: A President’s Struggle with Faith and What it Meant for America” (Thomas Nelson), by Stephen Mansfield He has previously explored the faith of Barack Obama and George W…

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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…

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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,…

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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…