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This seems wise for those who aspire to tenure.

Career advice from Richard Thaler

My advice for young researchers at the start of their career is… Work on your own ideas, not your advisor’s ideas (or at least in addi­tion to her ideas). And spend more time think­ing and less time rea…

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I feel as if I learn more from this blog (GetRe­li­gion) than almost any oth­er source. Fas­ci­nat­ing details.

Media cov­er­age of Roe at 40

As the 40th anniver­sary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court deci­sion takes place on Tues­day, a major­i­ty of Amer­i­cans – for the first time – believe abor­tion should be legal in all or most cas­es, accordin…

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I have often been mys­ti­fied at the way Chris­tian­i­ty is por­trayed in the media. It’s almost as though those who write the scripts/report the news/craft the essays don’t actu­al­ly know any seri­ous Chris­tians.

Who Owns “Evan­gel­i­cal­ism” in America?Who Owns “Evan­gel­i­cal­ism” in Amer­i­ca?

A lit­tle while ago, I had writ­ten two pieces (here and here) mak­ing the case for defin­ing evan­gel­i­cal­ism accord­ing to its the­o­log­i­cal dis­tin

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Spur­geon was a boss.

Spur­geon and Church Car­ni­vals (updat­ed) | NT Resources

Input per­son­al prop­er­ty and asked in no cach advance cach advance forms and afford the cri­sis. Hard to default or if that pay­day loans pay­day loans offer some­thing like instant cash. Life hap­pens and …

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This is my favorite Dil­bert in a while.

Dil­bert com­ic strip for 01/04/2013 from the offi­cial Dil­bert com­ic strips archive.

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…

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How sim­ple and yet how help­ful. 

“Some­times it’s the sim­plest things that make the biggest dif­fer­ence. For many years I’ve used the 3 R’s I learned from Ben Pat­ter­son to pray through Scrip­ture. This sim­ple tool has helped me pray the Bible more than any oth­er sin­gle strat­e­gy. I’ve used in my devo­tion­al times and have employed it often in lead­ing oth­ers in prayer.

1. Rejoice
2. Repent
3. Request

With every verse in the Bible we can do one (or more like­ly, all three) of these things.”

http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevindeyoung/2013/01/04/how-to-pray-using-scripture/

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This would nev­er have occurred to me, although I won­der if some­one who is a veg­e­tar­i­an for eth­i­cal rea­sons would val­ue the life of a mouse less than the life of a cow.

How bru­tal is veg­e­tar­i­an­ism to ani­mals?

Here is one take on the mat­ter, from Mike Archer, con­tro­ver­sial to be sure, and in some ways under-argued, but offer­ing some points to pon­der: … the largest and best-researched loss of sen­tie…

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This chart is very sim­ple but I think it cap­tures some­thing that eludes many Chris­tians.

What Can and Can­not Change in Our Rela­tion­ship with God

Bryan Chapell and John Owen help us to see the dif­fer­ence between uni­lat­er­al, unchang­ing union with God and the dynam­ic response of com­mu­nion with him.Bryan Chapell and John Owen help us to see the di…

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This is sad news. 

African Nations Surge Up Ranks of World’s Worst Per­se­cu­tors: Mali, Tan­za­nia, Kenya, Ugan­da, and Niger make debuts on Open Doors’s 2013 World Watch List.

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 …

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I should give this to peo­ple in Chi Alpha who say they want to learn how to play.

How to Final­ly Play the Gui­tar: 80/20 Gui­tar and Min­i­mal­ist Music

When will you stop dream­ing and start play­ing? (Pho­to: Musi­cian “Lights”, Cred­it: Shan­di-lee) I’ve always want­ed to play the gui­tar. It start­ed as a kid, lis­ten­ing to my dad play …