Video Tutorials Grain and noise texture Adding noise to an image is easy and you really can enhance the image. But, to make noise-inducing images that look like nature, sometimes you’ll want to add some grain. Here are a few ways to add grain to an image that have no effect on your image. If shadows are just not to your […] Written by jack121400 October 4, 2019October 4, 2019 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Video Tutorials World Chocolate Day – Vimeo Video Animate character or objects to a certain level on the fly. For example: a robot can be put into stasis at a preset level, while a statue can be moved over to another space while an enemy can be put back into stasis. Once the robot or statue goes into stasis, the other robot or statue […] Written by jack121400 October 4, 2019October 4, 2019 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Mixed Blessing and the Experience of Double Minorities “Daughter! You are Nepali! That is all,” is a refrain that Binsa hears often. She is under a lot of pressure: to marry, to bear children, to “prove” her worth as a woman. Her Zimbabwean roots are something to be hidden; her family wants her to identify as solely South Asian and to emphasize her […] Written by Red Letter Christians February 26, 2021February 26, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Bible and the Civil War: An Interview with James P. Byrd In this post I am interviewing James P. Byrd, Professor of American Religious History, and Chair of the Graduate Department of Religion at Vanderbilt Divinity School. He is the author of books including “A Holy Baptism of Fire and Blood”: The Bible and the American Civil War (Oxford University Press, 2021). [TK] The Bible and the […] Written by Evangelical History February 26, 2021February 26, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Mixed Blessing and the Experience of Double Minorities “Daughter! You are Nepali! That is all,” is a refrain that Binsa hears often. She is under a lot of pressure: to marry, to bear children, to “prove” her worth as a woman. Her Zimbabwean roots are something to be hidden; her family wants her to identify as solely South Asian and to emphasize her […] Written by Red Letter Christians February 26, 2021February 26, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Bible and the Civil War: An Interview with James P. Byrd In this post I am interviewing James P. Byrd, Professor of American Religious History, and Chair of the Graduate Department of Religion at Vanderbilt Divinity School. He is the author of books including “A Holy Baptism of Fire and Blood”: The Bible and the American Civil War (Oxford University Press, 2021). [TK] The Bible and the […] Written by Evangelical History February 26, 2021February 26, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
We’ve Never Done This at a Conference Before One of the new things at TGC’s upcoming 2021 National Conference—a hybrid conference unlike any other we’ve done—concerns rethinking breakout sessions. We’re debuting new technology that we’ve never seen in a conference before. It will allow online registrants to virtually drop in and out of breakout sessions as they are happening. If you attend the […] Written by Evangelical History February 26, 2021February 26, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
My True Buddha Self and Me One of the fears that we all have is being alone —especially in a permanent existential sense. So for example, we worry that if our loved one dies, and we have no close family, that we will be alone, not just in the sense of not having someone to offer support, especially in old […] Written by Ronald Hirsch February 28, 2021February 28, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
You Don’t Have to Go Home But You Can’t Stay Here “You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.”- ‘Joliet’ Jake Blues You might be one of us. We love Jesus. We have at least a passing familiarity with what he told us to do. Therefore, we can’t wrap our heads around what has happened to our church. We are dumbstruck by the […] Written by Red Letter Christians February 28, 2021February 28, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Five Aggregates The teaching of The Five Aggregates or The Five Skandhas, is an analysis of personal experiences and a view on cognition from a Buddhist perspective. The teaching also provides a logical and thorough approach to understand the Universal Truth of Not-self. In the last issue’s “Buddhism in a Nutshell”, we conclude that self is just a convenient […] Written by Minerva Lee February 28, 2021February 28, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Why we love our stuff Mooch’s love for Little Pink Sock from the cartoon Mutts by Patrick McDonnell Close your eyes and think of an object that means a lot to you, one that gives you comfort, one that you’d be sad to lose. When I posed this challenge to my students on Zoom, I then invited them to do […] Written by Stephanie Noble February 27, 2021February 27, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
