Posted on March 20, 2008 11:44 am by toddbumgarner
Earlier this week I put up a post titled, A 2-Yr Old’s Easter and basically asked the question: “How old is old enough to learn about the cross?”
Russel Moore’s post, Silly Rabbit, Easter’s Not for Kids over on The Resurgence website has been helpful in me processing this question. Moore concludes:
This Easter, preach the Gospel… to the senior [...]
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Posted on March 20, 2008 5:58 am by toddbumgarner
The San Fransisco Chronicle recently quoted actress Katherine Heigl as being “to lazy for religion.”
Heigl, who was apparently raised in a Mormon household, supposedly stated:
“I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and I think it is a wonderful way to grow up. But I think any real commitment to religion takes time, effort and [...]
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Posted on March 20, 2008 5:54 am by toddbumgarner
USA Today ran a thought-provoking article by G. Jeffrey MacDonald yesterday titled Christian Students Get Immersed in Lives of the Poor.
I found myself agreeing and disagreeing at times and I think this article does a good job of expressing the tension between being relevant in culture and still speaking the truth.
I highly recommend this short article.
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Posted on March 20, 2008 5:53 am by toddbumgarner
Engineers are unique people. Most of us will tell you that. But most of us would never conclude what a controversial Oxford University study concluded:
Islamic terrorists are more likely to be engineers than members of any other profession–and not because engineers possess superior technological skills.
You can read the Oxford paper here or read a brief summary [...]
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Posted on March 20, 2008 5:53 am by toddbumgarner
PC Week has published a comprehensive and categorized list of their Best Free Software.
I recently downloaded and installed GIMP and was happy to see it made the list. A couple of others that piqued my interest were Audacity and Foxit Reader.
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