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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…
Heh: “the case for epistemic humility remains worthy of your attention.”
Both of these articles are from this evening’s New York Times: U.S. to Be World’s Top Oil Producer in 5 Years, Report Says and: Text Messaging Declines in U.S. for First Time, Report Says Fur…
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.Â
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…
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. Â That is what it means to be making a living. Â A friend recently told me that this is similar to a farmer not getting too attached to animals that will be slaughtered. Â 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?
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