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Continue reading →: ★ Makoko Slum, Lagos, Nigeria
Makoko Slum. Lagos, Nigeria Samantha Appleton works primarily on long-term projects including recent work in the Middle East and illegal immigration in America. She has won numerous awards from POY and the World Press Photo. Her clients include Time magazine and The New Yorker. Samantha has worked on stories as…
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Continue reading →: ★ Syrian village clings to Aramaic language
Syrian village clings to Aramaic language – 25 Dec 07
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★ Reclaiming the Mission » Church Planting in Post Christendom – Is There Such a Thing? Fuller’s D.Min Course
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Continue reading →: ★ Reclaiming the Mission » Church Planting in Post Christendom – Is There Such a Thing? Fuller’s D.Min CourseSome of you who are hanging around this blog are interested in discussion of church planting, as the blog began years ago as the story of a church planter trying to find his way in a suburban/missional/emergingish world. Church planting isn’t out of my mind by any means these days,…
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Categories: Faith
★ Relic of St. Benedict and 39 other saints found in British Museum
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Continue reading →: ★ Relic of St. Benedict and 39 other saints found in British MuseumTHE NEW medieval gallery at the British Museum in London is full of beautiful images of saints in ivory, stone, gold and wood – but invisible to visitors, it also holds the bones of 39 real saints, whose discovery came as a shock to their curator. The relics, packed in…
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Continue reading →: ★ Non-compete agreements for church staff
I’ve worked in the software world for most of the past two decades. One of the regular parts of my employment contracts is a section that says that if I leave the current place of employment, I can’t go work for another place which is in the same market, so…
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Continue reading →: ★ Dear A.I.G.: I Quit! NyTimes.com
Whenever there’s public outrage fueled by the press, you have to wonder if there’s another angle on the story. In the case of the A.I.G. bonses, it turns out that there is. The following is a letter sent on Tuesday by Jake DeSantis, an executive vice president of the American…
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Continue reading →: ★ Brennan Manning on Busyness
“I think maybe the most demonic force that is afflicting the church is busyness” – Brennan Manning
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★ Busyness and our Way of Life
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Continue reading →: ★ Busyness and our Way of LifeAlmost 60% of Christians around the world feel their hectic schedule prevents them from spending more time with God. That’s what Michael Zigarelli, a Charleston Southern professor, found after polling more than 20,000 Christians from 139 countries about the busyness of their lives and how it affects their relationship with…
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Continue reading →: ★ The Big Takeover : Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone magazine published the following incindiary article about the global financial crisis. It’s well worth reading, whether you agree or disagee with their premise. The global economic crisis isn’t about money – it’s about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution via The…
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Continue reading →: ★ Social Monday: 3 Things Every Church Member Should Know About Social Media « NewsMuse
Will Boyd writes about social media and the church. Because I’m using social media all the time, and my dissertation appears to be taking the track of a social media project, this is interesting to me, and I suspect it will be for you also. Excerpt here, read more…
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