Beliefs have consequences: "The way teens behave comes from something. Their attitudes and actions spring from their value system, and their value system is based on what they believe. Glen Schultz puts it this way: 'At the foundation of a person’s life
From the page: "Attendees of Pentecostal or charismatic congregations are more likely than other Christians to read religious-based fiction and magazines as well as listen to Christian radio and music, according to a study by Ellison Research."
From the page: "Children whose father's vocabulary was more varied when they were 2 years old had more advanced language skills at age 3. Surprisingly, the dads spoke less and asked fewer questions than the mothers, suggesting it was not how much they spo
From Brian Benzinger comes a comprehensive list of 50 websites that will help you write, take notes, and organize your life. Some real gems here, check them out. I used a couple of these plus a timeline tool to create an easy-to-update task-reporting tool
From Philipp Lenssen, 10 tips: Use descriptive headlines, use the inverted pyramid, first links get the most clicks, explain core ideas, use readability elements, write simply, credit sources, mark updates and changes, spellcheck, break the rules.
Only four Shakers are left in the world, all living in southern Maine. But if they can't attract converts to their celibate lifestyle and this really is the end for them, they have a plan to ensure that their legacy lives on forever.
- Technorati tracking 50 Million+ blogs - Blogosphere over 100x bigger than 3 years ago. - Blogosphere doubling in size every 200 days - 2+ blogs created every second, 18.6 posts per second (2x last year's volume) - ~70% of the pings Technorati receiv
Among the consequences of Europe's abandonment of its religious roots and the [resulting] moral code is a plunge in birth rates to below the replacement level. ... Europe is "committing demographic suicide, systematically depopulating itself."
By focusing on well-known examples, Goodall, through his compelling writing style, points to easily identifiable signposts that trapped “great” men. The profiles in Why Great Men Fall give pause to others in similar environments: corporate execs, mini
CTI reviews the direct-to-video movie featuring one of the most charismatic and controversial figureheads of the modern Pentecostal movement. From the review: "Rossi, who wrote and directed the 2001 Motion Picture Council Best Documentary winner Saving Si
Bob Cringely sees a day in the near future when an Apple OS upgrade allows Windows XP software to run on a Mac without booting into the Windows OS. How sweet would that be?
By Ravi Zacharias "Zacharias invites readers to follow him on this journey through his life and into the lives of others, and see how he has become more convinced with each year that Jesus Christ is the one who came to give us life to the fullest and to p
What's weirder, that it's the Assemblies of God, or that it's comic book by committee? "Schutt, in 2003, first told the staff of Radiant Life curriculum about his interest in developing a quality Christian comic for preteens. Once the project was approved
From the page: "The Yearbook also records the continuing growth of Pentecostal, historic African American and other non-mainline churches in the U.S. Among the largest 25 churches in the U.S., the fastest growing are the Assemblies of God (increasing 1.81
Interesting view of self-centered Pentecostalism from a veteran Emergent: "As the mass choir (three churches) sang, I felt a stirring in my spirit, but not the same stirring of the spirit these people were singing about or any type of “stirring of the S