Priorities are like arms – Merlin Mann

“You eventually learn that true priorities are like arms; if you think you have more than a couple, you’re either lying or crazy.”
- Merlin Mann of 43folders.com (via Twitter)
Great analogy, great point.   Thanks, Merlin.

I need a nap…

Some days, I think that I need to give this a try…
(HT: Merlin Mann @ 43folders.com)

Email Woes

I’ve talked about him before, but this post is further confirmation that Merlin Mann is a genius.  He weighs in on some recent New York Times articles about (lack of) Productivity for the average white collar office worker in the US, he made some amazingly helpful comments towards the end of the post.
I would HIGHLY [...]

Brian McLaren weighs in on the Dobson vs. Obama debacle

Chances are you’ve heard about James Dobson’s recent comments about a speech that Barack Obama made a little while back.
If you haven’t, then great, don’t bother looking into it.  It’s the same old, same old, stuff that people like Dobson have been saying for a long time.  Stop reading this post now and go do [...]

NT Wright on dropping African debt

Interesting piece by NT Wright (as usual), defending his opinion that the massive debts that many African countires owe to Western countries and banks should be canceled.  Here’s a few quotes to whet your appetite:
In the 1970s, for example, Western financial institutions loaned the best part of a billion dollars to Idi Amin of Uganda [...]

Free Range Kids

I found out about a really interesting blog from a post on 43Folders.com.  It’s called:
“Free Range Kids: Let’s give our children the freedom we had!“
If you’re a parent, or would like to be one some day, I think it’s worth reading a bit.  Here’s a blurb about the site:
Do you ever: let your kid ride [...]

a bit of a tongue twister, but…

…Yet perhaps it is precisely this that we are being called to: engaging in that most difficult task of putting our religion to death so that a religion without religion can spring forth.
-Peter Rollins, from his new book The Fidelity of Betrayal: Towards a Church Beyond Belief

A bit of a tongue twister, I admit…  but [...]

Israel vs Palestine: Is there a “third way”?

Fantastic article called Israel/Palestine: Which Side Are You On?
Here are a few good quotes, but you should definitely read the whole thing:
Every time I read the two sides on the Middle East conflict, I can’t help but notice a strange resemblance in their narratives. There is the common sense of gloom, for one. There is, [...]

“Fake” List of Global Warming Skeptic Scientists

yikes…
Curious about the Heartland Institute’s list of “500 Prominent Scientists” who deny global warming, Kevin decided to contact some of the folks on the list. He put together a list of 150 email addresses…simply the addresses he found it most easy to acquire. After only 24 hours, he’d received 45 emails from angry scientists saying [...]

Rob Bell on Suffering

Here’s a neat video clip of Rob Bell, speaking at something called Seeds of Compassion InterSpiritual Day, in which different leaders from different religious backgrounds came together to discuss important issues.
I can’t actually embed the video here on this page, so you’ll have to go over to the original poster’s blog and check it out [...]