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Monday, September 18th, 2006[Sample Pages] The latest graphic novel from my friend, Mario Ruiz. In 120 pages, including 96 pages of sequential art and 24 pages of photos from Israel’s national archives, Nachshon Press plans to depict the entire history of the State of Israel, beginning with biblical Abraham, in a way that will be unforgettable to its [...]
Open Source Revolution
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006From The World is Flat, by Thomas Friedman: On the development of Apache, the original “open-source” (where traditional trade secrets — computer codes — are exposed to the public so the public can help improve them) internet infrastructure: “‘I was this near-dropout,’ explained [Brian] Behlendorf [an Open Source pioneer]. … ‘None of us had the [...]
Willowcreek, Part 2
Friday, August 11th, 2006Session 2, Jim Collins (Good to Great, Built to Last): “When Business Thinking Fails the Church” Published a monograph after Good to Great regarding social sector leadership (long form essay). Offers “penetrating insights” re. differences b/w business and social sector leadership. It’s a well-intentioned idea to say that churches should be run like a business, [...]
No mystery why Capitalism has failed there
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006Guy Kawasaki links to a World Bank report called Doing Business in 2006: Creating Jobs, described as: … the third in a series of annual reports investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. New quantitative indicators on business regulations and their enforcement can be compared across 155 countriesâ€â€from Afghanistan to [...]
Fighting poverty in NYC
Monday, July 31st, 2006The truth is, with all the gains we have made in recent years, one in five New Yorkers, or 1.7 million people, still lives in poverty. A closer look at the numbers reveals that poverty in New York disproportionately affects African-Americans and Latinos and is concentrated in several hard-pressed neighborhoods, primarily in The Bronx and [...]
Visit My Store
Sunday, July 9th, 2006Some have asked what happened to my recommended book list. All of the recommendations, along with a number of free audio and video downloads, are now in my store. Please note that any proceeds generated at the store benefit the ministry of Community Solutions. UPDATE, 07/11/06: Uh, something happened to the links, and they’re all [...]
For aspiring authors everywhere
Thursday, June 1st, 2006DJ has the what’s what on self-publishing here. Both he and Rudy took the plunge via Lulu.com.
Rudy Makes the Road as he Walks
Thursday, May 11th, 2006“High on a mountain in Puebla, Mexico, I snapped out of it. That day I encountered a Mexican poem that says, ‘Caminante no hay camino/Se hace camino al andar.’ Translation: ‘Sojourner there is no road/You make the road as you walk.’ Dr. Perkins had been saying this all along: Make the road as you walk.” [...]
Peep my homie’s book
Wednesday, December 28th, 2005My friend Phil Jackson of Tha House in Chicago co-wrote The Hip-hop Church: Connecting With the Movement Shaping Our Culture (InterVarsity Press) with Efrem Smith. I haven’t read it yet, but it’s on my list for 2006. Check it out. posted by Jeremy Del Rio @ 12/28/2005 09:20:00 PM
My favorite things from 2005
Monday, December 26th, 2005This is just a sampling… TV Shows Law and Order Law and Order: SVU Law and Order: Criminal Intent VH1: Driven American Chopper Iron Chef America Almost anything else on Food Network Sports Center Yankee Games on YES MSNBC or Fox News or MTV/VH1 or History Channel or PBS Emerican Experience to kill time Books [...]
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