Talented artist and photographer Giulia Pex had a message for her father and shared it in the most awesome way:
“Dad, you are my favorite superhero.”
She followed it up with this series of Super Dad awesome:
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by Eric Dye
Talented artist and photographer Giulia Pex had a message for her father and shared it in the most awesome way:
“Dad, you are my favorite superhero.”
She followed it up with this series of Super Dad awesome:
by Jeremy Smith
The Church has always been one to flourish in areas where our eyes are deeply drawn to God and the 20th century church is no different. We have all heard of the stats about Europe being a religious wasteland and America close on its heels. Even with that knowledge, this infographic is both saddening and disturbing.
Personally, I would love for us to understand that missions is not something that we do overseas, but the ability to bring the Gospel to a group of people that we simply do not understand yet. Unfortunately, American Christians probably can say that their own backyard is a missions field, because we have not been doing a good job of bringing the Gospel to our neighbors.
by Tre Lawrence
There are two things that bring much joy AND frustration to our lives: technology and children. Thankfully, with so much choice out there, it is quite possible to use the one to spark the interest of the other. There are literally scores of useful Android apps for all ages, and with Google’s latest drive in education, the best is still yet to come.
It is my heartfelt belief that “Best of…” lists rarely satisfy everyone, so I’m putting these out there as forceful suggestions:
I’ve been reflecting on the next wave of internetness: “the internet of things” — that ability for our toasters and cars and devices to talk to each other in real time and automate our physical world! Intro in Part 1; Church Ideas in Part 2
So, as Christians, do we have Biblical and theological thoughts about technology automating our lives? Is this good? Bad news? How do we reflect on this?
One thought experiment is to think through the “theological anthropology”—just a fancy term for “being human the way God intended us to be.”
With our stuff ready to obey our every whim, and our knowledge extending into a virtual omniscience about things we aren’t anywhere near (“whoa, turn down the A/C back at the house!”), it could be tempting to say we are becoming a little more like God. And this, of course, often sets off the blasphemy alarm and it should. We know the sin of putting ourselves in God’s place is the most core of them all: it’s Adam and Eve’s apple.
But if we think again, we realize “becoming more like God” isn’t always a theological black plague. In fact, when God made the world and gave Adam the command to steward and tend the garden, he was making us like himself in the sense that we were to sort and build and make stuff (yes, even in PHP). This is part of the imago dei (the image of God): our ability to create!
But can it go too far?
[Read more…] about The Internet of Things: Being Human? Being God? [Part 3]
by Tre Lawrence
Cool ideas and concepts continue to spill forth from Google. I especially love this one that intends to bring Internet connectivity to African institutions of learning via flying craft.
The trial involves 10 schools in Cape Town, South Africa, and involves the use of “white space network” with blimps (and other infrastructure down the line) to stream signal over large areas the schools are situated in… literally wi-fi via blimp. It’s a fairly large undertaking, but one with a lot of potential by way of mindshare payoff.
by Eric Dye
Why would you want a USB like this?