Editor’s Note: God creates men for their times and John R. W. Stott is the epitome of this providential reality. Lessons from his life are many, but what is so clear is that if you want to make an impact beyond your life, then teach people the Bible. Therefore, after hearing of Stott’s death, the […]
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Edward Tufte is an authority of analytical design (whatever that means!), but really a jack of all trades. In the interview below with the Washington Post, he talks about how he can learn everything you need to know about any trade and, though not become an authority, have enough knowledge to make a contribution. The
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On December 1, 1955, a tired black seamstress named Rosa Parks defied what was regarded as a polite custom when she refused to surrender her seat to a white man. Under the “Jim Crow” system of racial discrimination, her Montgomery, Alabama, bus driver had the legal right to move her farther back in the bus
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Maybe the IMF’s Dominique Strauss-Kahn thought he was wearing the Ring of Gyges, a mythical piece of jewelry which allows the wearer to become invisible. It shows up in Plato’s Republic, where Socrates posed the question whether the owner could behave himself. His interlocutor, Glaucon, suggested that, once invisible, few could resist stealing things, taking
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There was a news headline last week that you probably didn’t notice unless you’re either a fanatical college basketball fan or a resident of Kentucky. The University of Kentucky was forced to stop claiming that its men’s head basketball coach, John Calipari, has 500 career victories, since 42 of those victories were vacated by the
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“I love Mormonism. It’s so young and American!” That’s how the writers of the new hit Broadway musical, The Book of Mormon, explained to Jon Stewart on the Daily Show as to why they decided to write a musical about Mormonism when they are, well, not Mormon. I should make two things clear before we
It's Mormonism! Don't You Love it! Read Post »
