This map maker creates Tolkien-esque fantasy maps of American cities. So where’s one for Austin?
Will Reid is an ordinary dad with an ordinary problem: Apparently his teenage children needed help with incredibly menial tasks. So Reid has made a series of “Teenage Instructional Videos” to teach them the complex art of loading dishwashers — the “advanced level” involves pressing things that “look like the buttons on your Xbox or Playstation” — and replacing the toilet paper roll. Watch here.
“Biola University Professor Kenneth Berding compares Americans’ biblical illiteracy to eating a diet of nothing but chicken nuggets….To fight the decline, Berding created a free, online resource called Bible Fluency with multimedia tools to help users learn more about Scripture. The program employs music, visuals, flashcards, workbooks, lectures, and small-group activities to teach people to recognize and locate the Bible’s 400 most important events, characters, and themes.” Check it out.
“I need church. I am not one who regularly sees God at the ocean, in the mountains, or in a sunrise, although since Jack died, I am increasingly finding Him there. God and I tend to meet in community, and even though I dread the exposed and vulnerable feeling I get walking into His house now, I can’t stay away.” From an excerpt from Rare Bird, Anna Whiston-Donaldson’s memoir on losing her 12-year-old son.
Trevin Wax, on identifying as Southern Baptist even while relating to the larger evangelical community: “I am not a generic evangelical. I am a Southern Baptist who loves and wants to edify likeminded evangelicals in other denominations. My churchmanship doesn’t mean I take an adversarial posture toward other brothers and sisters. I am not in the SBC over against over denominations, but for the benefit of my brothers and sisters who are in other churches.”
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