A book on the environment by former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (and Terry Maple): A Contract With the Earth. I haven't read it yet (unlikely to be in bookstores in Bucharest any time soon) but it looks like a good read. Here is the beginning of chapter one, which is on Amazon's site: …
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From The Onion: Our Dumb World: Atlas Of Planet Earth Misunderstand Your World. Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas Of The Planet Earth is destined to become the most important book of the new century—perhaps the most indispensable volume in your home reference library. In fact, go ahead and throw all of your other books …
My previous post was about Chuck Colson's "Breakpoint" radio broadcast for today: Just Do It: Good Stewardship and Global Warming. In this broadcast, he refers to a disagreements among Texas Baptists regarding the construction of coal-fired power plants in their state. A pastor was quoted as saying: The pastor, in turn, assures [an opponent of …
Today's "Breakpoint" radio commentary by Chuck Colson is Just Do It: Good Stewardship and Global Warming. Colson is looking for common ground among Evangelicals: We evangelicals are so busy disagreeing with each other that we have lost sight of what can agree on:” good stewardship of the earth. Amen. Even in areas where there is …
There is a growing awareness among Evangelicals of the importance of environmental issues. There are good Biblical arguments for the importance of taking care of the creation as part of loving God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength; and loving our neighbor as ourselves. Increasingly, this is true among politically conservative Evangelicals; it …
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There are two types of people in the world: those who preferred geometry in high school, and those who preferred algebra. I preferred algebra. But whether you liked geometry or algebra--or even if you hated them both--you will enjoy the following geometry movies. Not Knot Part 1 and Part 2 -- All about knots. Outside …
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