Nice article about Colt McCoy’s Christian testimony.
Austin is still among the top 5 “youth magnet” cities for those 18-29.
Here’s a fascinating story about people in London authorized to go into the mud of the Thames River at low tide to dig around for artifacts from London’s history. If you can’t find a sermon illustration in that story, turn in your ordination credentials. And you’re welcome.
In a piece on working technology while driving, the NYT described a driver who “grabbed his cellphone to arrange a new shipment, cradling it between his left ear and shoulder, and with his right hand e-mailed instructions to his staff from his laptop computer — all while driving his rental car in a construction zone on a two-lane highway in North Carolina.” C’mon, folks: Don’t turn your car into an office cubicle.
“Is this gossip?” Nine questions to ask before you share something.
Interesting piece on the worldview of filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen.
“My hypothesis: the problem with organized religion isn’t that it’s too religious, but that it’s too organized….Organizations lose their relevance when the rate of internal change lags the pace of external change. And that’s the problem that besets many churches today….Over time, visions become strategies, strategies get codified into policies, policies spawn practices, and practices become habits. That’s organizational entropy” (Gary Hamel, WSJ).
“Want Christian grunge? Christian metal? Christian indie? Christian emo? Christian screamo? In 2009, you can have it all, and a lot of it is on Tooth & Nail. MewithoutYou, the label’s most interesting act, might also be its most heretical: having spiraled along the spiritual trajectory of its mercurial singer, the band now wraps up its live set with what can only be described as a Sufi worship song: ‘In everyone we meet / Allah, Allah, Allah!/ In everyone we meet’” (Hmm, I didnt know mewithoutyou had veered off. Not my scene)
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