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links for 2008-08-27

August 27, 2008

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EarthNews » Archive » A dwindling population helps a monastery go green

How many monks does it take to change a light bulb? That depends on whether they’ve gotten around to installing the compact fluorescent ones inside the abbey. For the Holy Cross Abbey in Berryville, the preferred answer is “Not many monks at all.”

(tags: environment monastery trappist)
ORTHODOX MISSION IN TROPICAL AFRICA « Mind in the Heart

(tags: orthodox mission africa)
Software Development Videos - Java, PHP, MySQL, Agile, Ajax, Flex, Silverlight, Software Testing

(tags: software development video tutorial)
Waving or Drowning?: DNC Benediction by Donald Miller (UPDATED)

Video and text of “Blue Like Jazz” author Donald Miller speaking the benediction at the Democratic National Convention last night

(tags: politics faith)
10 Challenges facing the Church in Cyberspace | The Digital Sanctuary

(tags: socialnetworking christianity)
Is something rotten at Apple? - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine

E-mail problems, flaky iPhones, and broken Macs. What’s Steve Jobs to do?

(tags: apple iphone mac business)
Rose Madrid-Swetman » Power |

Rose writes about the use of power in the Christian life

(tags: christianity leadership power)
WordPress as a CMS Demystified : Church Communications Pro | Church Website Design | Church Marketing

(tags: wordpress cms)
faith and gender « beauty and depravity

Lauren Winner is coming to Quest Church to discuss faith and gender. I’m planning to go, or watch the kids so Shannon can go.
jen lemen » Blog Archive » PBS Parents Launches SuperSisters (and I’m one of them!)

My sis Jen Lemen gets a super gig blogging about parenting with SuperSisters via PBS

(tags: parenting blog)
12 New Rules of Working You Should Embrace Today

(tags: leadership business tips productivity)
The Psychology of Happiness: 13 Steps to a Better Life ∞ Get Rich Slowly
Gmail: GmailAgenda Puts GCal in Your Gmail

(tags: google gmail firefox greasemonkey)
Attention & Ambiguity: The Non-Paradox of Creative Work

(tags: blog gtd productivity creativity)
davidsfinch.com : The Missing Links: Your Weekend Reader
Getting Things Done: Fix the Problems With Your Someday/Maybe List

The Tools for Thought blog has a thoughtful post tackling the problems many would-be followers of Getting Things Done have with the Someday/Maybe list, where you (supposedly) place realistic things you just can’t get to right now. Many lists are ignored, for example, because they’re just too darn long.

(tags: productivity gtd)
Failure: sin or saving grace? | BlogHer

Rachelle Mee-Chapman writes about failure at BlogHer

(tags: church.planting)
slide:ology - Seing the Invisible

Toward the end of the book there’s a scene where the main character is introduced to what it might look like if you could see each other truly. What if you could see each individual’s personality and emotions as color and light?
Cerdafied - Startups, People & the Variety Hour: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations
Jeff Henshaw’s Hog Blog » Blog Archive » The year of high- and low-lights at an Internet startup
my slanted eyes are beautiful « beauty and depravity
Magpie Girl » Blog Archive » Finding What you Value Most.
next-wave > church & culture: August 2008 Issue

August 2008 issue is online
jordoncooper.com » Archive » Protect & Invest

Jordon Cooper rereads Rudy Carrasco’s book on urban and multi-ethnic outreach

(tags: multiethnic multiracial multicultural christianity)
Dutch Sheet’s thoughts on Lakeland

(tags: prayer christian)
Creativityist » getting comfortable with omnifocus

(tags: omnifocus gtd)

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Welcome to In the Coracle, Pat Loughery's blog. Make yourself at home, and do join in the conversation by commenting on what you find here.

I blog a lot these days about spirituality and spiritual formation, and I have a particular interest in learning from the early Christian church's approach to spirituality and mission.

I'm a student at Bakke Graduate University, studying for a Doctor of Ministry in Transformational Leadership for the Global City. Here's my working thesis:

I am studying Celtic, Benedictine and Orthodox monasticism because I want to discover what frameworks these spiritualities provide so that my reader may understand how spiritual formation serves God’s mission.

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