Tools of the Trade: GTDAgenda

I’ve been asked by Dan at GTKAgenda to review their online task management/ planning application. I’ve mentioned previously Todoist which I used for awhile. After a few days of internet outage (web access issues is one drawback to being a country parson) I began using tools that don’t require an internet connection. [...]

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Guns in Church

“Only churches and bars are on that list” this article says referring to places concealed hand guns are banned in Arkansas.  Apparently they’re voting on lifting the ban.I have to say, I’m all for 2nd amendment rights, but I really have to wonder what would make this necessary.  For meetings of presbytery I would understand, [...]

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Baptism Service Gone Horribly Wrong

Here’s a story of a tragic baptism service in South Africa.
Four people drowned on Sunday morning during two separate church baptism ceremonies in Eldorado Park in Johannesburg and Bloemfontein in the Free State, police said.

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Protestants more loyal to toothpaste brand than church

USA Today article
Some Americans are more loyal to their toothpaste or toilet paper than to their religious denomination, making those consumers more choosy about Charmin or Colgate than they are about church, according to a new survey.

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Media and the Message: Part 2

I don’t mean for this to turn into a series, but this article showing that most people don’t actually read web content was in my Google reader this morning.
(Link now corrected, thanks John!)

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Media and the Message

I was reading a series discussing the effects of the internet on the way we read and think.  (Here’s a good place to start if you’re interested.)
I found it interesting for several reasons, primarily because I’ve noticed the profound effect my writing tool has on my own work.  I’ve been paying more attention to my [...]

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Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization “too Christian”?

I came across this article this morning. 
A quote from the editor of the destroyed series: “This is probably the first instance of mass book-burning in the 21st century.”

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Miami Abortion Clinic Investigation

I saw this story this morning about a woman went to an abortion clinic to have her 23 week-old fetus aborted.  While there she delievered while waiting on the doctor to arrive.  One of the clinic’s owners cut the umblilical chord, put the baby in a bag and threw it out.
The article contains the statement [...]

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Lack of rural pastors

Collin Hansen at Out of Ur has some good comments about the lack of rural minister:
HERE

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