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• Bi-Vocational Ministry & Theological Education

  
  lifeasmission — Authority: 116
  I think this will be my last post in a series on bi-vocational ministry.  If you’re looking to catch up, feel free to check out the earlier ones: 1) Bi-Vocational Ministry 2) Bi-Vocational Ministry & the Missional Church 3) Bi-Vocational Ministry & Spiritual Formation 4) Bi-Vocational Ministry ...
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• Conservatism and Western Civilization: A Historical Tradition

  
  The Western Experience — Authority: 522
  If I were super smart, talented, and motivated I may be able to writing something like this one day. But I am none of those things. At least not to the point to where I could produce and essay like this. So I’ll resign and just post some of it here.At the site First Principles [...]
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• Your actions affect what others do. Even when those others are infants.

  
  Blogs — Authority: 160
  Western culture tends to focus on the individual and on individual rights. We assume that people have the right to do what they would like, at least as long as those actions dont interfere with others. But, what does it mean for one persons actions to affect the actions of another? Research by Henk Aarts, Peter ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bi-Vocationalism & Support Raising

  
  lifeasmission — Authority: 116
  Earlier this month I began a series of posts on Bi-Vocational Ministry .  I talked about Bi-Vocational Ministry and the Missional Church and then the relationship between Bi-Vocational Ministry and Spiritual Formation . For the last few days I have been participating in a seminar on “Ministry Partner ...
  2 weeks ago

• Depressed in the West: Cultural Neuroscience Chimes In

  
  The Blogs at HowStuffWorks ScienceStuff — Authority: 120
  If youre genetically susceptible to depression, you might be better off living in a collectivist culture, according to a new Northwestern University study. View Comments
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• Politics and Economics: Still Kept Miles Apart in PRC

  
  The Foreigner in Formosa — Authority: 99
  Been meaning to link to this brief (but eye-opening ) note on managements decision to light up the Empire State Building to celebrate the founding of Communist Party rule in modern China. One wonders whether the board of Taiwans Taipei 101 skyscraper will  be willing to sell themselves quite so cheaply.
  2 weeks ago

• Fight Off Free Radicals with Noni

  
  IENACE — Authority: 142
  Enjoying a healthy lifestyle takes some work on our part. Generally is can be accomplished by making better choices every day regarding to what we eat, drink and how often we exercise. Traditions going back thousands of years have focused our attention on Noni Tree. The pacific islanders have a rich history of using ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bi-Vocational Ministry and Spiritual Formation

  
  lifeasmission — Authority: 116
  In my last post about bi-vocational church leadership , I tried to make the point that this approach derives its theological significance from a truly missional approach to theology and ecclesiology. I wanted to winnow that thought down a bit further and suggest that the biblical appeal for a bi-vocational approach ...
  3 weeks ago

• The newest Westerners

  
  High Country News - Most Recent — Authority: 572
  Immigrants from around the world are changing traditionally white Western communities such as Boise, Idaho.
  3 weeks ago

• Nick Griffin on Question Time

  
  Traditio et Virtus — Authority: 128
  I broke my self-imposed restrictions on media exposure to watch the BBC programme Question Time this morning. I watched it because it was the edition that has courted so much controversy due to the British Nationalist Party leader and MEP Nick Griffins invitation to appear as a panellist. As much as I dislike ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Power & Promise of Regional Gatherings for the Equipping of Missional Churches

  
  lifeasmission — Authority: 116
  A bit of background to this post… I used to want to be the next Rick Warren or Bill Hybels.  What student pastor in the late 90’s didn’t?  As I look back, my misaligned, youthful arrogance was fueled in large part by the national conferences I was attending.  Predicated on the modern notion that bigger is ...
  3 weeks ago

• Traveling to Crete and Santorini – Some essential tips

  
  Greece Travel Blog — Authority: 115
  www.GreeceTravelBlog.comSantorini is a special place because of the volcano and the architecture. In Crete just stay away from the capital (Irakleio) one of the ugliest cities in all Greece! Except for this, you will find in Crete beautiful nature and cities. I like Rethymno and Chania, but you can tour the whole ...
  3 weeks ago

• Charlemagne & the Carolingian Renaissance

  
  T h e o p h i l o g u e — Authority: 115
  Dale T. Irvin & Scott W. Sunquist, History of the World Christian Movement, Vol 1: Earliest Christianity to 1453 .  Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2006, pp. 234-41. Charlemagne (reigned from 768-814 C.E.) Forcing entire peoples to either undergo Christian baptism or face execution and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Questions for Question Time

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 643
  Sunny Handal, the notorious Guardian scribbler, achieved an extraordinary new nadir in today’s edition, with a list of 20 questions which his very select group of readers are advised to ask of Nick Griffin on Thursday’s BBC Question Time programme.   Mr Handal’s suggested questions are too lame to bear ...
  3 weeks ago

• What in the world? TalibanTube

  
  The Slow Bleed — Authority: 111
  In case you missed it, Fareed Zakaria had an interesting spot the other day regarding the Taliban. Although the focus of the spot is about their use of YouTube (and the internet) he did mention something I keep saying. For a group that believes everything in the west is pretty much evil and should be avoided at all ...
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• Enlightenment without retreat?

  
  One City: A Buddhist Blog for Everyone — Authority: 476
  by Davee Evans How about a year off? NY designer Stefan Sagmeister does this every seven years. He shuts his design firm, and heads off to work on personal projects for creative renewal. Watch his views on taking time off...
  4 weeks ago

• A question of culture

  
  NeoShinka — Authority: 128
  Yoshiyuki Tomino , Japanese creator of the multi-million dollar a year giant robot franchise, Gundam, was in New York for the festival and says he also doesn’t exactly know why there’s a growing American audience that’s looking to Japan for its animation. “ It’s a curiousity to me. There is one thing as a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Black teacher kills white super for refusing to renew certificate

  
  endiana.com — Authority: 128
  More white guilt for black crime . . . A black teacher from Belleville, Missouri murdered his white superintendent for refusing to renew his teaching certificate. David Wyatt shot and killed Charles Hertel, the superintendent of St. Clair County schools, in Hertels office. "Arrested and jailed, Wyatt was ...
  8 weeks ago

• Welcome to the 20th and early 21st century in the West

  
  You're in Your World Now — Authority:
  Nietzsche, Freud, Bernays, Barrie, Kafka, and Disney ushered in Western selfishness, paving the way for the rampant nihilistic consumerism of the 20th and 21st centuries. In Nietzsche, Kafka, and Freud we see romantic dandies, shouting out their terror and terribleness to the world. These are humans who believe ...
  8 weeks ago

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