Archive for September 4th, 2007
Great Book
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007I didn’t get as much reading done as I would have liked during the family vacation, but April 1865: The Month that Saved America by Jay Winik was well worth the effort. Ever since the founding of the republican experiment in 1776, the United States was still very much a fragile entity, and each generation [...]
Blog Catch-Up
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007+ Content Creation Online: 44% of U.S. Internet users have contributed their thoughts and their files to cyberspace. + The Partnership for After School Education (PASE) has launched a podcast of its trainings, conferences, and symposia. The current online library is small, but appears to be growing. PASE has been a long-standing training resource, program [...]
Filling Christianity’s “Gnarly Niche”
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007ABC Nightline reports on “extreme sports, evangelical style” led by unUsual Suspect Stephen Baldwin: “This is by no means the first attempt to make Christianity cool. Anybody remember the 1980s band Stryper? … Whether you think Stryper rocks or not, the evangelical youth movement seems to have grown significantly since then. … Over the past [...]