Blog, page 34
“Smart Cities Debate on the Economist”
Sponsored by Harvard Business School.
“All cultures need the Gospel”
“Christ is the end of ‘righteousness by law’ for anyone who believes”
–Romans 10:4
“Amazon Prime Air”
Packages to your doorstep in 30 minutes or less, courtesy of drones.
“Women and men are just the same, except for all of their differences”
The Atlantic:
Ready your knowing smirk, because here comes a scientific gem that’s sure to enliven even the dullest of holiday parties.
“Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.”
– 1 Peter 2:16
“Sayers on work”
What is the Christian understanding of work?…[It] is that work is not, primarily, a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker’s faculties… the medium in which he offers himself to God.
“Children featured in dystopias”
Serious business, in more ways than one
“Danger of the Single Story”
The problem with stereotypes isn’t that they’re untrue, but that they’re incomplete; one story becomes the only story.
“The NSA has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect global Google data centers”
“In the world you will experience suffering. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
–John 16:33
“The most significant change in Mexico’s economic policy in 100 years.”
[Mexico’s] congress will by the end of this year almost certainly pass a constitutional amendment to open up its oil and natural gas sector to private investment. By this time in 2014 the likes of ExxonMobil, PetroChina and Norway’s Statoil could even have contracts in place to start exploring for Mexico’s untapped oil and gas bounty.
“Q: How many Kindles would it take to bring down a Boeing?”
A: “Millions…packed into each meter of the plane.”
“The greatest single secret of evangelistic or missionary effectiveness is the willingness to suffer and die”
–John Stott (John 12, 2 Corinthians 4, Colossians 1