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Powerful summary of the 73-page report on John Howard Yoder's sexual abuse http://www.christiancentury.org/article/2015-02/report-reveals-full-history-theologian-s-abuse-institutions-response … /cc @ChristianCent via @jamesdpitts

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Today: Feeding Infants Peanut Products Could Prevent Allergies http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/23/feeding-infants-peanut-products-could-prevent-allergies-study-suggests/ … and Peanut Patch Could Protect http://time.com/3718529/peanut-patch-allergy/ …

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Solid brief article by @NaomiSRiley looking into idea that every church should be a multiethnic church. http://nypost.com/2015/02/23/do-we-need-to-integrate-our-churches/ …

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The world's most controversial Wikipedia topics, by language http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/08/daily-chart-1?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/editwars …

 

 

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The @Wheaton_Thunder men's basketball team set an NCAA all-divisions record by shooting 83.9% from the free-throw line this season

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@FaithTheology @synd_theology William Cavanaugh had a fantastic review of that book http://www.reformation21.org/articles/blood-a-critique-of-christianity-1.php …

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Why does @twitter app and website lose my place? And only allows you to scroll back so far? #youhad1job

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Procrastination as a way of life http://bit.ly/1vn1XcY 

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very exciting (to someone like me) set of essays from US Baptists engaging with Hauerwas in latest Review & Expositor http://rae.sagepub.com/content/current 

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Your scribe's February column, 50 Years from T.S. Eliot http://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2015/02/50-years-from-ts-eliot …

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Middlemarch (32 hrs) and Anna Karenina (33 hrs) both depict earnest, honest, hard-working people ending up happier than self-centered ones.

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Listened to Middlemarch and Anna Karenina back to back. Both appeared in serial form (1871-1872) and (1873 to 1877) respectively.

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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy is beautiful, brilliant, well-paced. Recommended. The audiobook helps with the pronunciation of Russian names.

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Rank Delusions http://shar.es/1Wb0vo  via @chronicle

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T.S. Eliot reading "Ash Wednesday" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEUlzDTGd44 …

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Just reread Contemplative Pastor by Eugene Peterson. He made me want to pastor in college 17 years ago and I still think his work is gold.

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In evangelism and worship, I stress avoiding the vulgar and pedantic (T.S. Eliot) but in preaching, avoiding "The Ramble" (Lori Carrell).

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New magazine column: Why Minneapolis is the best American city http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/the-miracle-of-minneapolis/384975/ …

 

 

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When @TylerWS @millinerd @WilcoxNMP @Fikkert @JeffreyGoldberg note it, read it. What ISIS Wants by @gcaw @TheAtlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants/384980/ …

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"more than 86 percent of Buddhists, Hindus, and Muslims globally do not personally know a Christian" @CSGC http://www.gordonconwell.edu/resources/documents/1IBMR2015.pdf …

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"what the kind, nice old fellow had said had not been at all so stupid as he had fancied at first" Tolstoy on clergy https://books.google.com/books?id=YRhdVMLQBWEC&q=%22There+remained+a+vague+memory%22#v=snippet&q=%22There%20remained%20a%20vague%20memory%22&f=false …

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"Vouchsafe to them help, O Lord." Levin thought, "How did they guess that it is help that one wants?" –Tolstoy https://books.google.com/books?id=YRhdVMLQBWEC&q=%22Vouchsafe+to+them+love%22#v=snippet&q=%22Vouchsafe%20to%20them%20love%22&f=false …

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"Boyhood" accurately depicts growing up. But if you work with people, the experience of watching it is like your normal life: messy people.

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John Barclay on the problems with N. T. Wright's new Paul books: http://dro.dur.ac.uk/14230/1/14230.pdf?DDD32+dth0jmb+d700tmt …

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St. Valentine was beaten, stoned, beheaded and buried on 14 Feb 269 AD for helping persecuted Christians and marrying Christian couples!

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Tolle lege: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/magazine/20Carr-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 …

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Pope to cardinals: You asked for Curia reform, and I'm determined to follow through. http://bit.ly/1F1bnOe 

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Happy Safer Internet Day. Be #SafeOnline with a 2-minute Security Checkup and we’ll say thanks with a 2GB bonus. http://goo.gl/5nyZ4x 

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Brian Williams suspended for six months. Have watched Nightly News podcast since 2007 and it has been consistently solid. Sad that he lied.

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My new responsibility among the Anglicans: http://ow.ly/HsuhP  http://fb.me/1HLHtp3W6 

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Starred review from @PublishersWkly for Lauren Winner's new book: http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-06-176812-5 … I've read one chapter, and it's amazing!

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'I would bet that nearly all pastors… have caught themselves—just a little bit—contemplating murder.' @RootAndrew http://www.christiancentury.org/article/2015-01/young-life-together …

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Witty reviews from @byronborger on new bks from Donald Miller, Wendell Berry, Makoto Fujimura & Dallas Willard. http://www.heartsandmindsbooks.com/booknotes/four_fantastic_books_for_early/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter#.VNorlb9-Tz0.twitter …

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here is the link to my piece in Christian Century (Bonhoeffer & his confirmation class) http://ow.ly/IuOHq 

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I'm hoping it is not Samaritan's Purse or the Billy Graham Association which are paying for Franklin Graham's promoted tweets to follow him.

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Why I went to seminary: A senator’s theological education http://www.christiancentury.org/article/2015-01/why-i-went-seminary … (@YaleDivSchool alum)

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#Beck wins Album of the Year! Here's our thoughts re: religion and his previous work (via @winbassett) http://www.mbird.com/2013/05/beck-brings-paper-to-life-and-life-to-paper/ …

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This excellent book is now on sale for Kindle! THE CONNECTING CHURCH 2.0 by Randy Frazee – http://thriftychristianreader.com/2015/02/09/randy-frazee-connecting-church-2-0-2-99/ …

 

 

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"we are each responsible to all for all." Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov, p. 332. Cf. 182, 321, 335, 338, 358. https://books.google.com/books?id=Wlk3qKfWFaUC&q=responsible#v=snippet&q=responsible&f=false …

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"I was neither… Jewish, nor extremely Christian." Tina Fey, Bossypants. / "extremely Christian" distances her upbringing from extremists.

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Walter Brueggemann reviews Curtis Freeman's book on Baptist identity: http://ow.ly/IqssG 

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I've seen papal "drop-ins" before, and often they are well planned in advance. Not this one. http://on.fb.me/1A4UJfk 

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@ericdaryl @adamkotsko Yeah I really think/(fear?) there's just no way around some kind of Christian supercessionism – or why be Christian?

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The Ineradicable Supersessionism of the Christian Imagination http://wp.me/p3rW2-cc 

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I'm skeptical that absent religion–any religion–human beings would be any less violent. Say that as an atheist.

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Here's the transcript of Bob Dylan's #MusiCares speech http://buff.ly/1M3OlrW  via @LilEdit #GRAMMYs

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Oldie but goodie I found doing book research: 5 smart responses to @sherylsandberg 's LEAN IN: http://theweek.com/articles/466330/5-smart-responses-sheryl-sandbergs-lean … @TheWeek

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In math, girls outscored boys when graded anonymously, boys outscored girls when teachers knew names. http://nyti.ms/1EMhzJR  @clairecm

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White Gentrifiers read Jeremiah as inspiration for moving into cities. I read Jeremiah as immigrant kid in a new country.

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Male professors are "brilliant" on http://ratemyprofessors.com . Female professors are "annoying." http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/07/upshot/is-the-professor-bossy-or-brilliant-much-depends-on-gender.html?rref=upshot&abt=0002&abg=1 …

 

 

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We currently have 4 job openings, in Books Editorial, Journals Marketing, Copyrights & Permissions & Project Euclid: http://ow.ly/Iz16x 

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Minnesota and New Hampshire tied for best state by @politico based on education, health, and poverty. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/the-states-of-our-union-are-not-all-strong-114395.html … Jan 20, 2015.

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Listened to 1872 novel Middlemarch by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans). Astonishing perception about human nature. Very long but rewarding.

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Pittsburgh Seminary has named David V. Esterline as its next president!http://www.pts.edu/Esterline_President …

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.@WheatonCollege has announced its new chaplain, @TimBlackmon, ordained in the CRC. http://www.wheaton.edu/Student-Life/Spiritual-Life/Chaplain …

 

 

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The book that has influenced me more than any other is Eugene Peterson's list of books: Take & Read: Spiritual Reading: An Annotated List.

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The Regent College Board of Governors is delighted to announce the new President of Regent College effective Feb 1 will be Jeff Greenman!

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Congratulations to Dr. John G. Stackhouse Jr. on his new appointment at Crandall University: http://ht.ly/ImETm 

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Delighted to be joining @CrandallU this summer, tho sad to leave @regentcollege: http://www.crandallu.ca/2015/02/johnstackhouse/ …

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I begin every course with a week on "Why does this topic matter? What happens if we ignore it or do it badly?" including my best pitch.

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A new chapter in my journey of following Jesus… http://bit.ly/1yJ82zx 

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Your church may not require seminary but it may help you from hurting people. @HarrisJosh is off to @regentcollege http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/long-an-outsider-popular-evangelical-pastor-heads-for-the-mainstream/2015/01/30/31827364-a881-11e4-a7c2-03d37af98440_story.html …

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This is a great piece on how the iPad succeeded for the exact reason many tech pundits hated it: http://bit.ly/1CK1iTK 

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Today we honor William E. (Bill) Pannell at Fuller Theological Seminary. http://bit.ly/15P8ilP 

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“Like old Israel, the U.S. is often said to be legalistic. And for some reason this is taken to be a criticism" Marilynne Robinson, When, 69

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Shame is positively correlated with addiction, depression, violence, and suicide; guilt is inversely correlated with them. @BreneBrown

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"To claim that a word in the biblical languages has a 'literal'… English equivalent, is simply not true." Doug Moo http://www.thenivbible.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/We-Still-Dont-Get-It.pdf …

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Fiction can be true or false. If I am not telling the truth, I hope someone will let me know. — Marilynne Robinson. http://billmoyers.com/2014/10/19/child-read-books/ …

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MT“@davewalker:How to cope in church – a guide for those of differing heights http://davewalker.cc/differing-heights/ … ” @scottagunn

 

 

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"So the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It is human connection." http://huff.to/1yLbpIi  Feels true to me: we're created to connect.

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"Religious people …made her nervous; they were like men in raincoats who might or might not be flashers." –Atwood https://books.google.com/books?id=ntczSSLZ4VwC&dq=john+bowen+evangelism&q=%22might+or+might+not+be+flashers%22#v=snippet&q=%22might%20or%20might%20not%20be%20flashers%22&f=false …

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"I never f. with True Religion" (Jay-Z, The Devil is a Lie). "True Religion reminds people of their dissolution" (Barth, Romans, 129).

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Farmers Insurance teaches agents to ask about FORE: Family, Occupation, Recreation, and Enjoyment. https://books.google.com/books?id=oneWAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=make+it+stick&hl=en&sa=X&ei=cgXAVKKMBYqdNq_6gMAP&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=family%20questions&f=false …

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2 resources on faith & work: ReFrame from @regentcollege http://www.reframecourse.com/  Redeeming Work from @Leadership_Jnl http://www.smallgroups.com/bible-studies/streaming/redeeming-work …

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Maybe need to let students think, process, and discuss a little and put all this material in a book.

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The longer I teach courses, the more "absolutely essential brilliant content" I accumulate which I *must* lecture at students.

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"Good dogmatics [theology] is always the best and basically the only possible apologetics" (Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics, IV/3.2, 882).

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Self-conscious cognitive development is distinctively secondary.Later, converts supply such an account. https://books.google.com/books?id=Z2djnvSUInsC&lpg=PA132&ots=TWARkbM0fj&dq=stark%20self-conscious%20cognitive%20development%20lofland&pg=PA133#v=onepage&q=stark%20self-conscious%20cognitive%20development%20lofland&f=false …

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Job's parents took 13 year old to church. Pastor said yes, God knows about starving children. Jobs never returned. https://books.google.com/books?id=8U2oAAAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=walter%20isaacson%20steve%20jobs&pg=PA15#v=onepage&q=lutheran&f=false …

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Amy Poehler ends Yes Please with “The only way we will survive is by being kind." And the Christian says, "yes, *and* to sustain that…"

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"to decide whether our relationship to the world will be fundamentally passive and infantile" DF Wallace,1996, 6:39 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8f6JhNOQb8 …

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I have posted my Fall 2014 and January 2015 Bethel Seminary course syllabi: http://www.andyrowell.net/andy_rowell/2015/01/fall-2014-and-january-2015-syllabi.html …

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"I have to do it sometime. Feedback is a form of love. I will learn and become better teacher. Many would love this opportunity." What else?

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What do you tell yourself when you need motivation to grade papers?

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Learning styles "not supported by science, and instills a corrosive, misguided sense of diminished potential" (144). https://books.google.com/books?id=t9JoAwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=making%20it%20stick&pg=PA144#v=onepage&q=%22learning%20styles%22%20evidence&f=false …

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We talked about "Selma" and watched "I have a dream" speech. 4 year old: "Were you there? How do you know about this?" #Childdevelopment

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Compare "evangelism" music videos: Parker Millsap "Truck Stop Gospel” http://www.cmt.com/videos/parker-millsap/1094766/truck-stop-gospel.jhtml … Frightened Rabbit “Holy” http://youtu.be/j2GkM9FWvag 

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Discover a ton of fantastic films that don't interest the Academy. Here's my Favorite Films of 2014 list. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lookingcloser/2015/01/overstreets-favorite-films-of-2014-a-work-in-progress/ …

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Steven Greydanus's Top 10 of 2014 is topped by a film that STILL HASN'T OPENED IN SEATTLE. Argh. http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/sdgs-top-films-of-2014 …

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"Oh, don't worry, Selma is only half full. Everyone is here for American Sniper. All our showings are sold out."

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John Lewis tells his truth about 'Selma' http://fw.to/gAmHIaS 

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RT @CTmagazine: The ‘Boy Who Came Back from Heaven’ retracts story http://bit.ly/1ByXPqx  // I am using all my will power not to comment.

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Baptists Freeman and Hartgrove not as concerned @ sacred space & nominally Christian institutions as Methodist Hays and Anglican Bretherton.

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Hays http://www.heraldsun.com/archive/x1351409965/Letter-about-Duke-Chapel-Decision-by-Dean-Richard-B-Hays/file …, Freeman http://baptistnews.com/culture/item/29726-baptists-should-embrace-muslim-calls-to-prayer-at-duke-theologian-says …, @WestLondonMan http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2015/01/17/4163809.htm …, @wilsonhartgrove https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.wilsonhartgrove/posts/558834554219666 …

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They met at @BethelSeminary "Family trades suburban home for trailer park" http://www.kare11.com/media/cinematic/video/21617147/inspired-family-trades-suburban-home-for-trailer-park/ …

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Tonight at 11:35 PM EST. Performing on @fallontonight.

 

 

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Looking back I realize I was too poor during the years of Apple's ascendancy to use their products. Today I'm not convinced they're better.

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The one positive that one would want to learn from Jobs is insistence on excellence but his means were awful: lying, abuse, neglect.

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"He was not a model boss or human being." @WalterIsaacson, Steve Jobs, p. xxi. After finishing the book, that is my takeaway.

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David Foster Wallace once taught a young Paul Thomas Anderson, who calls him “the first teacher I fell in love with.” http://bit.ly/1Fh5RYN 

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The rise of a radical pope: Frank Brennan reviews a magisterial new bio of Francis by @austeni http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2015/01/06/4158272.htm …

 

 

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Good preaching by my wife Amy Rowell, Pastor of Community Life at City Church in Minneapolis: http://www.citychurchmpls.org/pages/page.asp?page_id=212371 … http://www.amyrowell.net 

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Stylish Academic Writing by Helen Sword recommended by @scotmcknight http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2015/01/01/stylish-academic-writing/ …

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"God bless you. I will pray for you. But you have not been helpful." –monk, restraining anger, to @united rep. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/your-money/between-heaven-and-earth-an-airline-ticket-gone-awry-.html …

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The annual @joelhenghartse top songs of the year list, now up at Good Letters. Always eclectic & fascinating: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodletters/2015/01/this-dark-world-is-precious-to-me-14-songs-for-2014/ …

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Jeffrey @Overstweet gives us a gift with his conscientious rich description of his favorite movies of 2014. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lookingcloser/2015/01/overstreets-favorite-films-of-2014-a-work-in-progress/ …

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We might watch these on Amazon Prime: Ida, Nebraska, Spectacular Now, Wolf of Wall Street, Mud, All is Lost. But might just read instead.

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Bono launches 2015 with an epic letter about pretty much everything. http://www.u2.com/news/title/little-book-of-a-big-year/ …

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The new puritans and the cult of the gym: Why gym-going, an author argues, has all the basic lineaments of a religion http://www.economist.com/node/1487649?fsrc=scn/fb/eoy14/ar/thenewpuritans …

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The Sidney Awards, Part 2 http://nyti.ms/1A6dNXd 

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The Sidney Awards, Part I http://nyti.ms/1wLJcye 

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Good writers cut. @scotmcknight http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2014/12/29/great-thought-about-writing/ …

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What films shifted your understanding in 2014? Here are my most memorable movies of the year… http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dochollywood/2014/12/buying-time-the-best-films-of-2014/ …

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Kids: "I was singin' Christmas carols Christmas eve, I got a lump in my throat…" Slugs & Bugs Christmas @randallgoodgame @AndrewPeterson

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In "On Heaven and Earth," @pontifex is pastoral, biblical, forthright, and gracious. In seminary he met a girl: https://books.google.com/books?id=LyTNNk06ZrcC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA47#v=onepage&q=%22which%20does%20not%20take%20away%20the%20possibility%22&f=false …

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In "On Heaven and Earth" (2010), a 256-page conversation between not yet pope Jorge Bergoglio and Rabbi Abraham Skorka, @Pontifex shines.

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Debate on @PremierRadio by Stanley Hauerwas @DukeDivinity & Nigel Biggar @UniofOxford on just war & pacifism. http://bit.ly/1taPE2d 

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SELMA prompted my second "you should go see this" of the year http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/december-web-only/selma.html …

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Entering Student Questionaire (ESQ) and Graduating SQ (GSQ) data for ATS: http://www.ats.edu/resources/student-data/archived-student-data-reports … See also: http://www.ats.edu/resources/institutional-data/annual-data-tables …

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Some personal news: I will be starting a religion reporter position at the @washingtonpost, working w @mboorstein + https://www.facebook.com/sarahpulliambailey/posts/804194771948 …

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Pope Francis: the fifteen 'diseases' of the Curia http://fb.me/2ge82gFEA 

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Dr. Joseph Mangina joins the conversation around *Saving Karl Barth* at @synd_theology! http://bit.ly/1zc0TE6  #karlbarth

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My wife and I also met in 1994 like fictional couple depicted in 1995, 2004, 2013 Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight. So, fun to discuss these.

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I know this book came out a few years ago, but here's my review of Scot McKnight's A Community Called Atonement > http://thissideofsunday.blogspot.com/2014/12/scot-mcknights-community-called.html?spref=tw …

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.@Alissamarie Wilkinson gives #Unbroken 2/4 stars in her excellent, wonderfully even-handed review in @CTmagazine. http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/december-web-only/unbroken.html?start=4 …

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UNBROKEN: Another movie "marketed at Christians … that is probably going to be an exercise in missing the point." http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/december-web-only/unbroken.html …

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We enjoyed Linklater's BEFORE SUNRISE/SUNSET/MIDNIGHT film trilogy. Thanks to @Overstweet for recommendation.

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Good to remember this time of year (and really, always)

 

 

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Ergo Twitter is hell?

 

 

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For comparison, the median age in the U.S. is 37

 

 

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Interesting review of new Pope Francis biography by @MollyWorthen. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/books/review/the-great-reformer-a-biography-of-pope-francis.html?_r=0 … #USIH #twitterstorians #Catholicism #PopeFrancis

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Revised Edition of Fee's 1 Corinthians Commentary (Gupta) http://wp.me/p2Rhc-1Dw 

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4 great photos from the Mall of America protest.

 

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Andy Crouch (@ahc), executive editor of Christianity Today (@CTmagazine), presents a Christmas Playlist. http://go.shr.lc/1JAp07P 

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Promise Keeper: Why Bill McCartney walked away from the game 20 years ago, by @MichaelWeinreb http://gran.tl/1BUdsaj 

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Tim Keller adds that he likes “to show secular people that they’re not quite as unreligious as they think." http://www.wsj.com/articles/kate-bachelder-god-isnt-dead-in-gotham-1419032446 …

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Google gives insights to the four major religions.

 

 

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Home-run profile of Laura Hillenbrand and how illness shapes her reporting and writing http://nyti.ms/1Gv2ESF 

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Englewood Honor Books – The Best Books of 2014 for the life and flourishing of the church — http://shar.es/13OSnx 

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Gordon Fee's NICNT commentary on 1 Corinthians named a top book of the year by @AndyNaselli @TGC http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/tgc-staff-cite-best-books-from-2014 …

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The @Slate Year of Outrage 2014 is masterfully done http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2014/12/the_year_of_outrage_2014_everything_you_were_angry_about_on_social_media.html …

 

 

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My love of @serial is rivaled by my love of @serial parodies. http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/12/17/funny_or_die_serial_parody_video_a_fictional_sarah_koenig_is_pretty_stressed.html … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzk9aC1qh1o …

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Good work by @wthrockmorton providing plenty of material for my Organizational Leadership and Church Governance course this semester.

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Cover story of @NYTmag this weekend: fascinating deep dive by @nichcarlson on Marissa Mayer's struggles at Yahoo. http://nyti.ms/1zsftLw 

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"Some common reasons they gave for not buying e-textbooks were that screens make their eyes tired,…" http://tmblr.co/ZA1xby1YCYP4v 

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Here's @jwilson1812 Favorite Books of 2014 + the Book of the Year http://ow.ly/FZ83m 

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Our picks for the top Christian books of the year http://bit.ly/1DBCxLR  #CTBookAwards

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"RELEVANT’s 10 Most Popular Articles of 2014" http://relm.ag/1xmkAgX  via @RELEVANT / @BethelSeminary grad @aarongloy has #4

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Check out the new @synd_theology symposium on D. Stephen Long's new book "Saving Karl Barth" over the next 2 weeks! – http://syndicatetheology.com/ 

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.@amazon's Jeff Bezos one-on-one with @hblodget — a rare & remarkable conversation — #theBIInterview http://read.bi/1sAxXc1 

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ETS, SBL and California: The Surprises http://thinktheology.co.uk/blog/article/ets_sbl_and_california_the_surprises …

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Some Memories of Stanley J. Grenz and His Theological Journey by Roger E. Olson http://www.patheos.com/blogs/rogereolson/2014/12/memories-of-stanley-j-grenz-with-special-attention-to-criticisms-of-his-theology-and-some-hitherto-unrevealed-facts/ …

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What can we learn from the collapse of Mark Driscoll's church? http://bit.ly/1yys9wc 

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The Secrets of Making a Great #Presentation – http://philcooke.com/presentation_secrets/ … #speaker #publicspeaking

 

 

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Protesters in Minneapolis join Eric Garner demonstrations, shut down portion of 35W. http://ow.ly/Fnzcv 

 

 

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One of the Most Innovation-Friendly States Is … Minnesota? http://s.hbr.org/1yj9hpY 

 

 

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*Announcing* the first-ever Barth Pastors Conference following the 2015 annual Barth Conference! Learn more here: http://ptsem.edu/pastorsconference …

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100 Notable Books of 2014 http://nyti.ms/1wiNZIm 

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Bought subscriptions for Christianity Today @CTmagazine, Leadership @Leadership_Jnl, and @booksandculture for $10. http://orderct.com/blackfriday 

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Listened to three volume biographies of Teddy Roosevelt and Winston Churchill–moved by their energy and sobered by their demeaning others.

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Vatican Diaries @JohnThavis and The Idealist @ninamunk depict brilliant academics (Benedict and Sachs) struggling with practical and social.

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Enjoyed audiobook The Vatican Diaries (2013) @JohnThavis Good anecdotes about papacy and before resignation depicts Benedict's unhappiness.

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Enjoyed audiobook "The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs @JeffDSachs and the Quest to End Poverty" (2013) by @ninamunk. Lesson: leaders must listen.

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It's been _such_ a good year for @CTmagazine, editorially and as an enterprise. For $10 you can be part of next year: http://bit.ly/1vFGx9U 

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Jon Pott to retire from Eerdmans. He has done some amazing, significant books. http://christianretailing.com/index.php/newsletter/latest/27630 …

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Speculatte: Latest Starbucks product, for philosophers only.

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Just me or does Rob Bell's zimzum trailer feel kinda like an SNL parody? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU3hTwbJeWA …

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new book on Stanley Grenz's theology http://wipfandstock.com/revisioning-renewing-rediscovering-the-triune-center.html … from @wipfandstock with essays by Hauerwas, Fiddes, Vanhoozer, Holmes & others

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"Productive writers reject the notion of 'writer’s block' the way others shun gluten." http://chroni.cl/1uyZ8Tv 

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Guest Post: TJ Lang on Campbell’s new book, Framing Paul http://blog.christilling.de/2014/11/guest-post-tj-lang-on-campbells-new.html …

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The new era of theological education http://ow.ly/Espqt 

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If annoyed by Windows 7 not starting up quickly (unlike Win 8 and Mac), just change Power Options to never sleep (while plugged in).

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Spotify defends itself. "Downloads are dropping just as quickly in markets where Spotify doesn’t exist." https://news.spotify.com/us/2014/11/11/2-billion-and-counting/ … Interesting

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With EndNote X7, from PowerPoint (Windows only) you can insert references into slides. Nice. @EndNoteNews

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Microsoft just made its Office mobile apps free to use without subscription http://yhoo.it/1wzG2Nn 

 

 

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Introducing #PrimePhotos! Prime members now get free unlimited photo storage in @AmznCloudDrive http://amzn.to/1vV9vkE 

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iPhone vs. Android: Which is better? Let's answer this once and for all. http://cnnmon.ie/1u9uj5Z  via @DavidGoldmanCNN

 

 

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In KJV 14 diff Greek terms are translated as 'preach,' while in Luther's German Bible 33 Greek terms are transl 'predigen.' Guder, BMW, 143.

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N.T. Wright Panel Discussion on YouTube: http://youtu.be/mNzcwo6opqg 

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N.T. Wright: How and Why Paul Invented "Christian Theology" lecture on YouTube http://youtu.be/Y4CY73psVFQ 

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Evangelism isn't about getting people to say a prayer, but helping them not to follow paths that will destroy them.

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Not All Vulnerability Is Brave: @KatelynBeaty considers public confession at @CT_women. http://www.christianitytoday.com/women/2014/november/sorry-brene-brown-not-all-vulnerability-is-brave.html?paging=off …

 

 

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