Category Archives: Culture

Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor Rally – Honoring God or Dishonoring Jesus?

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I was saddened and confused to see prominent evangelical Christian leaders participate in Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor rally on August 28. Had the rally been about politics or honoring American patriots, such involvement would not be troubling. However, the rally was clearly more like an attempt to worship God with multiple prayers, testimonies, scripture readings, and urgings from the pulpit… Read more »

George Washington Rules of Civility

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Get the Washington’s Rules webwidget for your blog or website Read the 110 rules here and you may wish to order a copy for your library: 1. Every action done in company ought to be with some sign of respect to those that are present. 2. When in company, put not your hands to any part of the body not usually discovered…. Read more »

Paying Attention

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Interesting study I had not seen before, mentioned in Maggie Jackson’s book Distracted [In a short video] Six people, three in light clothes, three in dark, weave around and pass two basketballs, white clothes to white clothes and dark to dark. In the middle of the video a woman in a gorilla suit walks calmly through the group, stops briefly… Read more »

ACCS – Ken Myers on Culture

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*UPDATE* Here’s the link to this lecture. As this site attests, I am interested in education in general and greatly interested in time-proven “classic” methods that have endured through the ages. I would have enjoyed the ACCS conference for this reason alone. But the reason I leapt for the mouse and the online registration form way back in April was… Read more »