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There's about 12,000 words in these images. Perhaps more.

December is National Buy a Book By a Black Author and Give It to Somebody Not Black Month 🙂

Thomas Friedman writes about how and why America is in decline, and whether the nation can recover

HT: JordonCooper.com

Banks that are getting taxpayer bailouts awarded their top executives nearly $1.6 billion in salaries, bonuses, and other benefits last year, an Associated Press analysis reveals.

The rewards came even at banks where poor results last year foretold the economic crisis that sent them to Washington for a government rescue. Some trimmed their executive compensation due to lagging bank performance, but still forked over multimillion-dollar executive pay packages.

David duChemin's thoughts on what makes an excellent travel photographer

In response to the last post on the history of the missional church conversation, Brian McLaughlin asked a great question regarding differences in the missional conversations that were taking place in the U.S. in the mid 1990s with those that were going on in the U.K. under the influence of Lesslie Newbigin. In other words, if the U.S. version of the Gospel and Our Culture Network was birthed out of the influence of Newbigin, were (or are) there any differences in the missional ecclesiology of the two?

Grace rounds up several juicy quotes from the attractional/evangelical/missional discussion happening in the blogosphere right now, and they're all excellent. Thanks to Grace for keeping up with the discussion because I currently can't.