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Today Facebook went public, and according to Conan O’Brien it happened just as the last MySpace user just went private. Mark Zuckerberg just made a few billion dollars selling off parts of his company which was built on the Timeline of your life, and all the details of which you were willing to post.

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This morning I had hoped that we would have good news to share about a potential grant for the Cascadia project. Unfortunately that is not so. Our grant application was rejected and so we are in re-imagining mode. Is this really bad news though?

Not surprisingly, this morning I have been thinking about failure and the number of articles I have read over the last few months that suggest it is actually good for us.

Thank you to everyone who has responded by writing a Thank-You Note. (It’s not too late! You can still participate HERE.) Here is a roundup of some of your kind words so far. “Thank you for your dedication to the core teachings of Jesus. Your work with “the least among us”, often at great personal sacrifice to yourselves, is an ...

What would you do if you had $75 billion and four years to improve the world’s well-being? Recently 65 world-renowned researchers, economists and Nobel laureates got together and answered that question. They released their findings yesterday after more than a year of reviewing proposals and evidence, thanks to the Copenhagen Consensus Center. Being economists, they weighed their choices carefully using ...

The following series is based on my senior paper for Seminary. You may remember a video where I invited people to contribute their stories to help make my case. For the next couple weeks, I’ve decided to share my findings with you all. There will be a “thesis/problem” section, a “biblical theology” section, and an [...]

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On Saturday, May 12th, Ugandan military forces captured Caesar Achellam, one of the top four commanders in the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). Achellam was captured in southeastern Central African Republic (CAR) after being in the LRA for over two decades. He was captured with a wife, a child, and a 12-year-old female from CAR. Achellam holds one of the highest ...

i know today is national bike to work day here’s some fun video of the route that you probably wouldn’t want to take. and if you do bike make sure you post an image to Twitter or Instagram with the hashtag #NPRbikefor the good folks at National Public Radio for their photo gallery.

You might not think you’re directly connected to rainforest destruction and slave labor. But you probably are, and a compelling report this week from Greenpeace connects the dots. It’s called “Driving Destruction in the Amazon.” It highlights how steel used to make thousands of everyday products can often be tied to the clear-cutting of forests to make charcoal that fuels ...

Following the blogger trip to Tanzania I noticed a theme of hope repeated throughout the week. This got me to thinking and I wondered, “What if each nation in this world was meant to reflect one particular attribute of God?” Like Tanzania. What if God wanted the people of Tanzania to reflect His hope? What if, woven into the story ...

This post is in partnership with FedEx Social enterprises operate all over the world and they are a growing sector in the United States. While there is no singular definition in the U.S., most social enterprises operate in the open marketplace and integrate a social or environmental mission into their bottom line. At GOOD, we view social enterprises as for-profit ...

For all of you who have been wanting to watch my documentary “Adopt-A-Jesus”, we FINALLY uploaded it online! Tell everyone you know, and enjoy!

This past week I have encountered some major consequences of ill-made choices in my past...

I had to go to the doctor and, in short, found out that I was extremely anemic and on the verge of type 2 diabetes.

In the past I made extremely poor choices of what I put in my body, and I also dealt with issues of overeating. And as a result of this, I have been a bit overweight for a long time now. This has been a huge obstacle for me in my life in many ways, and the Lord has honestly taught me

This race has beenThis raceThis race has been growing, but also breaking. I have seen things come out of my life that I thought I was or had held my identity in but in fact was hurting those around me and burdening people that I love most.  This race has been growing, but also breaking. I have seen things come out of my life that I thought I was or had held my identity in but in fact was hurting those around me and burdening people that I love most. 

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