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No need to go it alone: Nonprofit Quarterly

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The task of managing an institution in the nonprofit sector is by definition challenging. In fact, it often leads to career extinction and personal burnout. (more…)

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hell in a handbasket: W. E. B. Griffin, Retreat, Hell! (Corps)

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W.E.B. Griffin’s novelistic account of the Korean Conflict in 1950 teaches even as it entertains. Douglas Macarthur—who is still revered as the hero his president wouldn’t listen to by many South Koreans—is primed for glory, but has to deny the massive Chinese presence that awaits his troops if he’s going to get there. (more…)

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light and sound: Tabletalk

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The story is told of the Christian Reformer Martin Luther that he habitually gathered his large family and a collection of personal disciples together around his table for nourishing food and pious conversation. So was born the tradition of ‘table talk’, a form of Christian teaching that is anchored to the daily rhythms of family and community life. (more…)

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a trade journal for a hidden growth industry: International Bulletin of Missionary Research

Posted in denkschrift, missio dei, reseña, tagged , , , on August 29, 2007| Leave a Comment »

Christian faith has always been centrifugal, rarely containable, and viscerally cross-cultural. The mission of the Christian Church is therefore expansive, intentionally persuasive, and usually outward-looking. (more…)

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No one knows him better: Martin Gilbert, Churchill. A Life (audiocasette), Part 1 of 3

Posted in clarity, denkschrift, reseña, tagged , , , , , , on August 29, 2007| 1 Comment »

No human being alive today knows Britain’s legendary lion of a Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, than Martin Gilbert.

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No one knows him better: Martin Gilbert, Churchill. A Life

Posted in clarity, denkschrift, reseña, tagged , , , , , , on August 29, 2007| 2 Comments »

No human being alive today knows Britain’s legendary lion of a Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, better than Martin Gilbert.

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nourishment and joy: Mars Hill Audio Journal

Posted in denkschrift, reseña on August 28, 2007| Leave a Comment »

Christians possessed of an inquisitive intellect, a restless soul, and an intuitive connection to their culture are one of the Church’s underserved people groups. Often their God-given wiring is viewed as evidence of spiritual drift or—worse still—untamed rebellion.

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the fastest, most enjoyable way to get up to speed on a fascinating area: Biblical Archaeology Review

Posted in denkschrift, reseña, tagged , , on August 28, 2007| Leave a Comment »

I once asked the Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge how he stays abreast of fast-moving developments in biblical archaeology, a field of investigation that is related but decidely peripheral to his own work.

‘I mostly read BAR … ‘, he said, in an unexpectedly low-brow response for the hallowed halls of the Great University. ‘Then if I want to know more about a topic, I move on to more scholarly publications.’ (more…)

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de-putting asunder: Phill Butler, Well Connected. Releasing Power and Restoring Hope

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Phill Butler gives us one of those books that takes an action sport or skill that is usually performed on an intuitive or visceral level and reduces it to a formula.

Don’t get me wrong. This is not a criticism. Many of us need precisely such a formula that provides a handle, a method, or a path. Butler has given us that, and is to be thanked for doing so. (more…)

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Simple is beautiful: Oster BPST02-B Professional Series Blender, Black

Posted in paterfamilias, reseña, tagged , , on August 28, 2007| Leave a Comment »

The handsomely elegant glass-on-black Oster blender crushes ice with ease and doesn’t shake, as some less sturdy contenders do.

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