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World's Scariest Roads
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Web is popular place to ‘open’ a church
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18 Creepiest Landscapes On Earth
from Environmental Graffiti

50 Best Websites 2009
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8 Mind-Boggling Optical Illusions
from Women's Day

The Worlds Greatest TreeHouse
from Zuzu

World’s scariest runways
Buckle up for nail-biting landings and harrowing takeoffs
from MSNBC

Peace with God, Oprah, Water, Wal-Mart, Ghost Towns and Your Church

Readers Pick Top 10 Wired.com Summer Photos
from Wired

Oprah’s unorthodox gospel comes under scrutiny
from ReligionNewsBlog

The Water Shortage Myth
Forbes.com

Wal-Mart means low-priced goods and good jobs
Katherine Kersten . . . StarTribune.com

The New Classics: 25 Tech Innovations
EntertainmentWeekly

Explore the ghost towns of the Old West
MSNBC.com

Peace with God
from the BGEA

The How-To-Do Anything Guide
Forbes.com

Commentary: What's right with America? Plenty
Glenn Beck on CNN.com

Is Your Church a Salad Bar or a Main Entrée?
from MondayMorningInsight.com

The Five Stages of Renewal in the Local Church
from MondayMorningInsight.com

Salt, Blind Boys of Alabama, Why go to Church?, the Apostles, Prayer, the Pope

Pushed to the Edge, 'Salt' Took Time for God and Herself
Hip hop star Cheryl James gave up her successful group, Salt N Pepa, to get in touch with her Christian faith.

'I'm Not Blind, I Just Can't See': A Chat with the Blind Boys' Ricky McKinnie
Ricky McKinnie has been playing with the gospel legends The Blind Boys of Alabama for more than three decades, and that makes him one of the new guys.

10 Reasons Why We Go To Church...
Life Purpose
"Who am I?" "Why am I here?" "What's the purpose of my life?" "How can I find meaning and fulfillment?" Who doesn't ask these searching questions about life's purpose at some point in their life? There is a place deep down inside every one of us that cries for significance. We look longingly at the lives of our heroes, who've made a difference in our world, and secretly want to be among them.

What Happened to the Twelve Apostles? How Their Deaths Evidence Easter
Parchment and Pen Theology blog: Reclaiming the Mind

A Price Control By Any Other Name
from Forbes.com

ChristianPeer
first ever Christian torrent site

Ten Creative Ways to Energize Your Prayer Life
from BeliefNet

Six Surprising Things About Benedict XVI, 'The Puzzling Pope'
David Gibson offers a handy guide for getting to know Pope Benedict XVI.
By David Gibson

Ledreborg Castle
from GoogleEarthHacks.com

If Only I Could Get the Fed's Help When I'm Bad: Ann Woolner
from Bloomberg.com

The Web's best free stuff
from InfoWorld: There's a wealth of downloadable software and online services, but free doesn't necessarily mean good. Here's some of the best of the bunch

Abston Church of Christ
Amy Hughes . . . and so the Abston Church of Christ was conceived as my first LEGO project in twenty years.

The Psychology of Entrepreneurial Misjudgment, part 1: Biases 1-6
blog,PMarca.com Mark Andreessen

The Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr

The Serenity Prayer
by Reinhold Niebuhr
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; That I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him Forever in the next. Amen.

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Net Bible

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Champion Factories, Rick Warren, Newspapers, Mainline and Franchised Churches, Hispanics and Churches, Leadership

Champion Factories
There is a school of thought that holds that champions like Super Bowl LXII quarterback and most valuable player Eli Manning are born, not made.

Inaugurating the New York Times Deathwatch
from blog.pmarca.com

Rick Warren: We Need to Be on the Same Team
Speaking at the National Cathedral in Washington, D. C. recently, Rick Warren suggested that mainline churches need to reconcile with evangelicals to counter their mounting problem of membership decline.

Why Aren’t Your People Inviting Other People to Attend Your Church?
Maybe people aren’t inviting people to your church because they aren’t that enthusiastic about it either.

Re-Thinking the “Franchised Church”
Franchising Church is not about being a “McChurch”, it’s about following a “McSystem”.

Switch by Hispanic Catholics Changes Face of U.S. Religion
In a huge cultural transformation that is changing the face of religion in the United States, millions of Hispanic Americans have left the Roman Catholic Church for evangelical Protestant denominations.

Mainline Churches: The Real Reason for Decline
from First Things
Mainline Protestants reeling
By GARY STERN THE JOURNAL NEWS
Mainline denominations losing impact on nation
By Steve Levin, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
What Makes a Thriving Mainline Church When Many are Dying?
By Lillian Kwon Christian Post Reporter

Studies Say Biofuels Worse Than Gasoline
from WiredBlog network

You Know You’re Not Leading When…
from MondayMorningInsight.com

Blogs, Ministry, the young, Westerns, GetReligion, Mary, a great place to work

The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to Spiders to Suits — to You
from Wired Magazine

Getting Ministry Traction Instead of Just Spinning Your Wheels
SermonCentral.com

ReligionNewsBlog: Older generations mourn as young Hispanics turn away from the Catholic Church.

Top Ten Most Inspiring Modern Westerns!
Idol Chatter, a religion and pop culture blog

Happy Birthday GetReligion.org

Ed Young: How to Make Leaders Out of Lackluster Followers
from MondayMorningInsight

Devotion to Her has long been a Controversial Affair
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Creating a Great Place to Work
Griffin Hospital created an award-winning work environment by honoring its commitment to open communication. A BusinessWeek columnist explains how.

Astonishing Societe Generale transcripts emerge...
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Top 12 Evangelical Christians in Sports Today
BeliefNet

Post-Christian, Pentecostelism, London, Denzel, Jobs, Life Lessons

'Post-Christian era'? Don't tell Third World

Pentecostelism's Growth in the Favelas

Cash-Happy London
If you haven't been to London in a while, you won't recognize it. The city hasn't seemed this alive—or expensive—in years

Denzel Washington's Ministry of Movies
The star tells us how he studies the Bible daily, prays every morning and night, and sees his films as a form of preaching.

Harvard: 'Hard' Skills Trump 'Soft' Skills
Research from Steve Kaplan and colleagues suggests investors should hire a Jack Welch or a Steve Jobs—both with tough reputations—rather than a Jeff Immelt

America's new jobs: We don't need no education, just comfort

I’m a Believer: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind.

Life Lessons
When Harvard social scientist Robert Putnam was recently researching America's challenge in forging a common identity amid demographic diversity, he visited fast-growing Protestant churches--and was surprised by what he found.

Aboard the Swedish Icebreaker Oden

LED, Cycles, Heros, Joel and Ted, Gospel and Laptops

Philips and Taking on the Lighting World
from BusinessWeek

Computer World and the Best of Management

The Art of the Deal
How the Nahmad family made billions trading art, and why so many people in the art world can't stand them.

Words To Retire

Purists in America Find St. Andrews in Pacific Mist of Oregon
from Bloomber.com

Flickr Debuts Online Image Editor

The 20 Most Important Questions in Business
What entrepreneurs can do is ask the core set of tough questions that govern the fate of any enterprise.

Super Cycles or Hooligan Chic
Celebrities and corporate moguls are fueling the boom in custom motorcycles--and creating a new subculture of fierce collectibles.

More Willowcreek Revealsqueal
from MondayMorning

Unsung Heroes of the Computer World

Predatory Lending
The bill tells lenders they may not engage in the undefined practice of "predatory lending"--examples of which include vague offenses such as offering loans that are not "solely in the best interest of the consumer" or offering loans that a borrower does not have a "reasonable ability to repay."

Turning Business Ed on It's Head
from BusinessWeek

Strategic Digital Outreach
Frank Johnson . . . 'I believe that the internet provides today's church with a historic opportunity .... to tell the old, old story of Jesus and His love in ways which could only have been imagined in times past. The objective of this website is to explore the various ways in which today's technology can be used to spread the gospel around the world.'

Google Announces Fastest Growing Search Terms
from TechCrunch

Joel Osteen
If the evangelical world is looking for a poster child to offset the negative publicity surrounding rich televangelists, Joel Osteen would be a good choice.

Ted Turner as Rancher or is He Taking Over the Land
from MSNBC

Along the Route from Communism
The fall of the Berlin Wall 18 years ago symbolized the beginning of a transition from communist central planning to market democracy in some 25 countries--many of them new states. from Forbes

20/20 Vision on 70/70
from Forbes

Technology and the New Workers
from Forbes

Judas Gospel and the Gospel Truth

Big Tech and Older Folks
There were more Internet users age 55 and up than there were age 18 to 34 in September, according to Nielsen Online. from USAToday

Ten Things Bad About Laptops
from USAToday

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The New Robber Barons
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Female Absenteeism
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Godly Men Shouldn't Be Weenies
God wants men to be courageous and fierce, says John Eldredge, author of "Wild at Heart." The bestselling book sees the men's movement through a Christian lens, urging men to overcome the stereotype of Jesus as a "bearded Mr. Rogers."

Joel Osteen Inspires Millions
Business leaders can learn a lot from the popular evangelist's uplifting style. Accentuating the hopeful empowers people to take action.

Give Clean Coal a Chance

Rustic Dish is Thrify and Satisfying
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Make Your Home Prayer Friendly

CEO of City Hall
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When I Became a Christian
from the BlindBeggar

Incredible Feats of Concrete?!?!
Innovations in methods and ingredients have made possible lightweight bridges, color-changing buildings, and furniture created from this efficient material

Web Gets Blue Around the Collar
MyBlueCollar.com, an online extension of the popular Blue Collar Comedy brand, launches with short video contributions from Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy. More than 100 videos, from them and others, are expected within a few weeks.

Social Networking with the Elite
A new crop of social networks aim to keep out the riff-raff by demanding credentials at the virtual door.

Sara Groves has No 1 Christian album on iTunes
from a former teacher in Rosemount MN

Christians Are Taking Over, Biking, Obama, Big Deals, FaceBook, Jesus Hardcore

Danger! Danger! They are Taking Over
Believe it or not, there are actually Christians on Australian Idol!

Katherine Kersten: Bike-riding mobs owns the streets of Minneapolis
Now we know who's in charge of Minneapolis streets. It's a loosely organized group of serial lawbreakers called Critical Mass . . . from the StarTribune.

George F. Will : Obama's economic adviser is ...

When Big Deals Go Bad - and Why
Amid a flurry of bad news for big deals, it bears remembering that successful mergers heed the basic rules of business . . . from BusinessWeek

The Manager's Job: Folklore and Fact
What do managers do? A study of five CEOs and studies of managers conclude that managerial work involves interpersonal roles, informational roles, and decisional roles . . . from BusinessWeek

The Founders Intended a Christian, not Secular Society
Michael Medved

Teens to Parents: It's Our FaceBook
Since Facebook launched in February 2004, the company says the number of active users (those who have used the system in the last 30 days) has jumped from 130,000 to 43 million.

Jesus Hardcore: Reaching Angry Mosh-Pit White Guys
About the Resurgence: Resurgence is a movement that resources multiple generations to live for Jesus so that they can effectively reach their cities with the gospel by staying culturally accessible and Biblically faithful.

Last.fm and karin eriksson, Mother T and Mel Gibson's 37M Church

Last.fm
a favorite online music site

Mel Gibson's 37 Million Dollar Church
Female followers of Gibson’s church must abide by a strict dress code, requiring them to wear veils over their hair and long skirts, with a ban on pants for women.

Mark Peterson: The doubting nun of Calcutta
Open Hands blog

Trust Your Style
I've always admired Karin Eriksson's work, which often shows up on design blogs. I wanted to include her in my ongoing interviews with artists not only because I always appreciate her lovely sensibility but also because Karin's style blog is one of my favorite stops whenever I'm looking for a distilled blast of an artist's life. Simple and true, it always brings me right back to the reasons I love creating. I'm so happy that Karin has dropped by Trust Your Style today to talk about her work and her life.

Speed Record, Barna, Faith, Super Crunchers, Mobs and Motivation

75 year old likely set Internet speed record
Her fiber-optic connection could be world's fastest home uplink

Barna surveys Catholics
from the DallasNews Religion

I Learned What It Means to Have Faith
In this 1945 letter, an American soldier liberated from a German POW camp, tells his family what kept him going.

Era of the Super Cruncher
Intuition is losing ground to data mining, a new book claims.

Moms Mabley Agitation in Motion
Moms Mabley was one of the greatest comedians of all time. She is widely regarded as one of the most important African-American entertainers that ever lived and as the first bonafide female stand-up comedy superstar.

The stars' homes away from home
There’s no place like home. But if you’re a celebrity, there’s also no place like your second (or third, or fourth) home.

Get Motivated to Do More With Less
A Colin Powell speech got a BusinessWeek columnist thinking about force multipliers. Here are five ways to get more done with what you already have

Ice Cream Wars
Nestlé vs. Unilever: the $59 billion industry is dominated by two global giants looking to expand in Asia and Latin America

Charistmatica, Google, Labor, Immigration, Speech, Communion, Youth and Bible

Charismatica blog
REVIVAL RENEWAL & REFERRAL BLOG

Little Altars Everywhere
In the era of big-box churches, small, multicultural congregations that focus on serving those in need in their neighborhoods are growing quickly.

Embed your Google My Maps into your blog or website
An unofficial Google Maps blog tracking the websites, mashups and tools being influenced by Google Maps.

Together Apart: A Dissection of Diversity
People in the most diverse areas are the most likely to withdraw -- even from those with whom they have much in common.

Immigration, Inc fuels global underground economy
If these guest workers incorporated as a company, their migrant multinational would rank No. 3 on the Fortune 500 list, trailing only Wal-Mart and ExxonMobil in annual revenue.

Labor Shortages: Myth and Reality
With higher pay, there are plenty of U.S. workers to fill jobs, some economists say

Powerful Profs
As business schools gain visibility, star professors gain influence that extends outside the classroom to boardrooms, the best-seller lists, and beyond

Private Equity, Public Gain
Let's lay to rest the myths about private equity, once and for all. There's no question PE is a boon to society

Hate Speech and Culture Wars by George Will
MARRIAGE is the foundation of the natural family and sustains family values. That sentence is inflammatory, perhaps even a hate crime. At least it is in Oakland, Calif.

The Death of Sweden
The Brusels Journal, the essential European blog

Catechesis, confession and admittance to the Holy Communion
thinking-out-loud blog

Why Business Can't Solve the Immigration Mess
Business Week readers weigh in with sharp retorts to our story on how businesses are playing a central role in the immigration debate

YouthRoots
Your digital youth room

BiblePlaces
BiblePlaces.com features photographs and descriptions of sites in Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey and Greece with an emphasis on biblical archaeology, geography and history.

Google Earth Reaches for the Sky
Google has launched a new feature for users of Google Earth called Sky, which allows people to view the sky as seen from Earth.

The Reverse Brain Drain
Low visa quotas and delays may be sending highly skilled and entrepreneurial immigrants back home—to work for U.S. competitors

Christian Press, Gay and Married Clergy, Emergents, Christian Hits and Leaders and Elvis

Baptist Press: News with a Christian Perspective

Lutherans urged not to punish gay clergy in 'faithful' relationships

Cisco Launches Virtual World Blog
From Business Communicators of Second Life: Exploring the potential of Second Life for business communications, information dissemination and innovation.

Is Married Priest Movement the Beginning of a Catholic Church Reformation?

Christian Apologist Says Church is Producing Atheists

One Lutheran Group Responds to Another on Gay Issue

Emergent Church
Emergent Christians finding a new path

Joni and Friends
Joni Eareckson Tada founded the ministry in 1979 to communicate the gospel and equip Christ-honoring churches worldwide to evangelize and disciple people affected by disabilities.

Spiritual Health of Christian Leaders
Musings of a Christian Psychologist

The Fate of the Family and the Future of the Church
Despite their inclusive rhetoric, mainline Protestant congregations are actually less likely to have single parents, single adults, and married couples without children than are evangelical Protestant churches.

Elvis and his religion
The Religious Affiliation of Rock and Roll Pioneer Elvis Presley

TopChristianHits.org
a website created to document the history of Contemporary Christian Music through an accurate analysis of various airplay and sales charts.

Christian Stats, Clergy Abuse, Facebook, Virtual World, Music and Pentecostalism

Christianity Finds Fulcrum in Asia
Ten thousand Chinese become Christians each dayTen thousand Chinese become Christians each day . . .

Mark Andreeseen: Age the the Entrepreneur, part 1: Some Data

from Magic Statistics China Third-Largest Christian Country in the World
According to the World Christian Database, China has 111 million Christians, about 90% of them Protestant, mostly Pentecostal—more than the 75 million that belong to the Communist Party.

660 Million Dollars

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Fogeys Flock to Facebook
Professionals pushing 40 and older are joining the college crowd on the social hub. Can CEO Zuckerberg's team give them reason to stick around?

Just Ahead: The Web as a Virtual World
Imagine being able to have a digital replica of yourself stroll from one site to another

Oil Forecasting Off Target
"I've done 120 short-term energy outlooks and I've probably gotten two of them right," said Mark Rodekohr, a veteran Department of Energy (DOE) economist.

The Rising Tide of Pentecostalism
How a grassroots revival became the second-largest Christian movement in the world.

Simplify Media software connects you through iTunes
Enjoy music from home while at work or school. Explore friends' music while they are online.

White Cross on YouTube
This is an interesting look at how the 80s Christian metal scene impacted the people who enjoyed their music loud, guitar-driven, Christ-centered ... and fast.

Confessions of a Recovering Pharisee by Kevin Bussey