New Bodies

The Health and Science section of a recent Time magazine talked about the high-tech future of the human body. A professor from the University of Zurich remarked, “We are approaching a point where technology can fully replace a functionality of the human...

Should We All Move to Hawaii?

A couple of interesting surveys caught my eye this week. The first one was a study done analyzing terms used on Twitter accounts. Researchers at the University of Vermont sifted through some 10 million tweets written in 2011. They had a list of “happy”...

Rules Matter

Rules Matter I enjoy watching NFL football. We just finished with the AFC/NFC Championship games and the Super Bowl. Fun stuff to watch! I had to laugh though at an article written the week after the NFC Championship game. One of the San Francisco 49ers running backs,...

Granny Brand: “Give Me Another Mountain”

A few years ago, John Ortberg wrote an article about a missionary to India named Evelyn Brand. (Her son is Paul Brand, a brilliant doctor with an incredible spiritual ministry.) Ortberg entitled his article, “God, Give Me Another Mountain” and in it, he...

Living Intentionally

I love standing alongside a mountain stream watching what goes by. Some of the leaves or twigs are driven along by the current or a breeze, but the fish are different. They are swimming by. They are going somewhere. I doubt that they are consulting a day planner, but...

Bible E-Lumination

The author Richard Mason is a man on a mission. He would like to revolutionize the way we experience reading. He is enlivening storytelling through modern technology. Specially, he has developed an app that merges the written page with music, lights, and a stream of...