Gallery How to Be a Fashion-Loving Minimalist If you read an article about how to live without an income every day for the rest of your life, you might be thinking, “Well … that isn’t going to happen.” But you’re wrong, because there is the possibility that we can achieve that on a daily basis. It’s not easy, but there are some […] Written by jack121400 October 1, 2019October 1, 2019 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Good Reads Sunrise and Sunset on Mars To explore the surface of Mars as a whole, scientists have focused almost exclusively on a portion of its surface, called the ‘Celestial latitudes’. It has a latitude of about 55 degrees north, and a longitude of about 2 degrees south. The surface is cold at this latitude, and at a very specific location, in […] Written by jack121400 August 19, 2019August 19, 2019 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
General Christian On Gender Equality: We Have Made Great Strides & We Are Not There Yet To have this conversation with everyone and anyone makes no sense. If you cannot accept that women are equally created in the image of God (Genesis 1:27), or that women are called and sent to share the Gospel (as the women at the tomb were on the first Easter) then please stop reading, for this […] Written by Red Letter Christians September 22, 2020September 22, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Buddhist Dispassion – Options From a practical perspective, the key to ending suffering is to experience all things directly, with dispassion, free of labels, free of the intervention of the ego-mind. The key word is “dispassion.” Why is that key? Because if we don’t view things with dispassion, with equanimity, that means that our emotions are engaged and that […] Written by Ronald Hirsch September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Evangelical Biblical Principles for Grandparenting a Child with a Disability Have you seen the bumper sticker that says, “We’re spending our children’s inheritance”? Parents committed to Scripture should change that slogan to: “Our children are our inheritance” (see Psalm 127:3 KJV). This applies equally to grandparenting. We receive grandchildren from the Lord as an inheritance, and we give them back to our family, church, and […] Written by Paul Tautges September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
General Christian Comfort My experience of God has been, consistently, that God shows up most fully during our hardest times. For me, God’s presence was tangible during our horrible family crises that started ten years ago and really became more manageable for most of us five years ago. During those first few years, […] Written by Barbara Barkley September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Catholic Starlight He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name. Psalm 147:4 “Will you PLEASE come inside now, stargazer!”- was a refrain I would hear often when I was little. I used to spend hours sat in the field behind my house, looking at the stars. A born planner and a born […] Written by Caroline September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
General Christian Fire in the Sky: On Divisions and Forgiveness “I’ve seen it raining fire in the sky.”- John Denver, Rocky Mountain High Every August, for as long as I can remember, we’ve invited friends to join us in watching the Perseids Meteor Shower. Living high in Rockies, far from city lights, we enjoy amazingly dark skies. Sometimes clouds block the view; sometimes the moon […] Written by Red Letter Christians September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Evangelical Did Adam Smith Get “The Wealth of Nations” from the Bible? I am teaching through Isaiah in my adult Sunday school class. History nerd that I am, I perked up in chapters 60 and 61 when the English Standard Version (and other modern translations) repeatedly uses the phrase “the wealth of the nations.” I immediately guessed that this phrase was the origin of Adam Smith’s classic […] Written by Evangelical History September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
General Christian Fair Genesis 15:1-6, Luke 3:8, Matthew 20:1-16 You know the story. The owner hires different workers at different times. That means the workers work different amounts. Yet, at the end of the day, each worker is paid the same amount. And the laborers are upset about this. They feel this is unjust. They feel that those […] Written by Barbara Barkley September 20, 2020September 20, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
General Christian Good News About Tony Editor’s Note: This update was shared by Tony’s family at tonycampolo.org on September 10th. Dear Friends of Tony Campolo, The best news is that we expect Tony to come home on Friday, October 2! Never have I seen anyone work harder at anything than my dear husband has at his physical therapy. The two therapists who […] Written by Red Letter Christians September 20, 2020September 20, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Buddhist Being a friend in times of need Being present is our practice. When we’re not present we tend to say or do things we regret. Maybe we make a case to justify what we’ve said or done. Or we get entangled in some other way. Staying present, we are more likely to be skillful. And if we stumble in our words or […] Written by Stephanie Noble September 19, 2020September 19, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Fire in the Sky: On Divisions and Forgiveness “I’ve seen it raining fire in the sky.”- John Denver, Rocky Mountain High Every August, for as long as I can remember, we’ve invited friends to join us in watching the Perseids Meteor Shower. Living high in Rockies, far from city lights, we enjoy amazingly dark skies. Sometimes clouds block the view; sometimes the moon […] Written by Red Letter Christians September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Did Adam Smith Get “The Wealth of Nations” from the Bible? I am teaching through Isaiah in my adult Sunday school class. History nerd that I am, I perked up in chapters 60 and 61 when the English Standard Version (and other modern translations) repeatedly uses the phrase “the wealth of the nations.” I immediately guessed that this phrase was the origin of Adam Smith’s classic […] Written by Evangelical History September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Fire in the Sky: On Divisions and Forgiveness “I’ve seen it raining fire in the sky.”- John Denver, Rocky Mountain High Every August, for as long as I can remember, we’ve invited friends to join us in watching the Perseids Meteor Shower. Living high in Rockies, far from city lights, we enjoy amazingly dark skies. Sometimes clouds block the view; sometimes the moon […] Written by Red Letter Christians September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Did Adam Smith Get “The Wealth of Nations” from the Bible? I am teaching through Isaiah in my adult Sunday school class. History nerd that I am, I perked up in chapters 60 and 61 when the English Standard Version (and other modern translations) repeatedly uses the phrase “the wealth of the nations.” I immediately guessed that this phrase was the origin of Adam Smith’s classic […] Written by Evangelical History September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Fair Genesis 15:1-6, Luke 3:8, Matthew 20:1-16 You know the story. The owner hires different workers at different times. That means the workers work different amounts. Yet, at the end of the day, each worker is paid the same amount. And the laborers are upset about this. They feel this is unjust. They feel that those […] Written by Barbara Barkley September 20, 2020September 20, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
On Gender Equality: We Have Made Great Strides & We Are Not There Yet To have this conversation with everyone and anyone makes no sense. If you cannot accept that women are equally created in the image of God (Genesis 1:27), or that women are called and sent to share the Gospel (as the women at the tomb were on the first Easter) then please stop reading, for this […] Written by Red Letter Christians September 22, 2020September 22, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Dispassion – Options From a practical perspective, the key to ending suffering is to experience all things directly, with dispassion, free of labels, free of the intervention of the ego-mind. The key word is “dispassion.” Why is that key? Because if we don’t view things with dispassion, with equanimity, that means that our emotions are engaged and that […] Written by Ronald Hirsch September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Biblical Principles for Grandparenting a Child with a Disability Have you seen the bumper sticker that says, “We’re spending our children’s inheritance”? Parents committed to Scripture should change that slogan to: “Our children are our inheritance” (see Psalm 127:3 KJV). This applies equally to grandparenting. We receive grandchildren from the Lord as an inheritance, and we give them back to our family, church, and […] Written by Paul Tautges September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Comfort My experience of God has been, consistently, that God shows up most fully during our hardest times. For me, God’s presence was tangible during our horrible family crises that started ten years ago and really became more manageable for most of us five years ago. During those first few years, […] Written by Barbara Barkley September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
