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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 [...]
Monday Miscellany
Monday, August 6th, 2007+ Homicide: Life on the Streets of Baltimore. 190 homicides in 217 days. We have to do something. + Pressures on Newark’s new mayor and political darling Cory Booker to deliver after city’s murder rate spikes again. + Playing dirty politics with age-old Christian divisions. + The Bronx is Burning. Not the show. The Team! [...]
Monday Miscellany
Monday, June 4th, 2007+ Terror plot thwarted at JFK the day every zip code and transportation hub was prayer walked in New York City. Coincidence or providence? + Google empowers stalkers for real-time stakeouts? + Managing Workplace Generation Gaps. + From Tallskinnykiwi: Is the Emerging Church really the New Skid on the Jock? and why Charles Swindoll has [...]
Monday Miscellany
Monday, May 14th, 2007+ The poor get poorer. Bob reflects on this blog post from the Wall Street Journal (“Businesses Lure Working Poor Deeper Into Debt”) and this article from Business Week (“The Poverty Business: Inside U.S. companies’ audacious drive to extract more profits from the nation’s working poor.”) + Latinos give PBS a history lesson. Ruben Navarette [...]
Foot-in-Mouth disease
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007+ Less than a month after leading the anti-Imus crusade, Rev. Al betrays his inner, uh, bigot. Does this mean he should be fired? But who would fire him? + Curt (Shrilling) Schilling on Bonds; on Rocket; on bloody socks. Even his manager is appealing to him to put a bloody sock in it. + [...]
Motley Monday
Monday, May 7th, 2007+ Faith Confronted, and Defended, Downtown. NY Times profiles Off-Off Broadway portrayals of faith, including a production by Generation Xcel volunteer Lear DeBessonet. HT: DJ + Embrace the Mess. Reuters reports: Raging hormones may explain teen moodiness. Hmm… Sounds familiar. + On evangelicals’ misuse of stats. (Although CT published this in January/February, it’s particularly timely [...]
Tuesday’s Tidbits
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007+ Liz Rios celebrates Rev. Ray Rivera’s legacy. + Faith matters on college campuses. The New York Times reports how expressions of faith on campuses appears to be rising. + Peter Ong on redeeming the “collective shame” felt by many Asian Americans following the Virginia Tech tragedy. + God and War. Newsweek’s got it covered. [...]
Sunday Stew
Sunday, April 22nd, 2007+ Columbine grad relives horror at Virginia Tech. + Why it’s never good to taunt crocodiles. + 2008 political debates online. + Alec Baldwin demonstrates how not to talk to your kids. + Va Tech killer’s brain found to be normal? With a gunshot blast to the temple, how could Cho’s brain exam be complete? [...]
Sunday Stew
Sunday, April 15th, 2007+ Context matters. One of the world’s greatest musicians plays music by one of the worlds greatest composers on a centuries old instrument regarded as one of the world’s greatest musical treasures, and no one notices. The Washington Post writer debriefs the experiment here. + Empire State Building death plunge. Diana and I were just [...]
Wednesday’s Stew
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007+ Suspect arrested in kidnapping of 13-year-old MacGyver. My cousin Steven told me yesterday that this kidnapping took place moments from where he lives in Florida, and within minutes of the initial call to the police, Word of Christ International Church’s intercessory prayer team had been mobilized to pray. The boy’s stepdad works with Rick, [...]
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