We have called off our search for a Boston Terrier and are now trying to locate a troop of red ruffed lemurs. From the National Zoo Website This report also suggests more evidence that there appears to be no hope for the giant pandas as a species.
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No Comments Scott Pagel on Aug 25th 2011
More good reflections on John Stott’s influence on Christianity and Evangelical Christianity. Nicholas D. Kristoff’s Evangelicals Without Blowhards I want to identify myself as an Evangelical, but people like Falwell and Robertson make it hard – almost impossible – for me to do so. I believe that there are more people who identify with Stott’s [...]
No Comments Scott Pagel on Aug 2nd 2011
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R.I.P. John Stott: Missional Before Missional Was Cool
A great man passed on July 27, 2011. My first exposure was his Acts commentary, The Message of Acts: The Spirit, the Church, and the World. From Christianity Today’s obituary: From his conversion at Rugby secondary school in 1938 to his death in 2011 at 90 years old, Stott exemplified how extraordinary plain, ordinary Christianity [...]
No Comments Scott Pagel on Jul 28th 2011
No wonder I love science, art, and the Free Market… but not the State. Found this at jonniefivemiles’ Flickr stream.
No Comments Scott Pagel on Aug 6th 2010
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Google Wave is Dead
I got my Google Wave account on day 1 of its life. It was definitely interesting and evolutionary, but I never thought it was going to take hold. It was just too slow. I used it for a couple projects and it was OK, but far from the best way to collaborate for those particular [...]
No Comments Scott Pagel on Aug 5th 2010
I’m just going out on this limb… I’m a fan, but far from an expert. It just makes it more fun to follow when you have something on the line… so I’ll throw out some predictions. Feel free to leave your predictions in the comments. Here’s my predictions for the last game of the group [...]
1 Comment Scott Pagel on Jun 22nd 2010
Growing up next to a major US Air Force base, our community heard the US Military songs regularly. Of course, we most often heard the Air Force song, but we were also treated to performances of select groups such as Tops In Blue and I particularly remember their renditions of these meaningful songs and their [...]
No Comments Scott Pagel on Jun 11th 2010
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“What Little I Know About Man…”
Regarding this report that scientists have created the first synthetic cell… Tony Woodlief at Sand in the Gears writes: there is something dangerous about science unmoored from an acknowledgment of creation’s mystery, and anchored instead to an abiding trust in man’s reason read the whole thing at Sand in the Gears » Re-creation a couple [...]
No Comments Scott Pagel on Jun 10th 2010
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Huskers and the Big 10 or Big 12
I’m deeply interested in the recent talk of Big 10 expansion and especially the involvement of my home state’s biggest university, the University of Nebraska. Everyone all over the sports internets is weighing in on what might happen. Many of them are more qualified than I to speak on what is going on (or is [...]
No Comments Scott Pagel on Jun 9th 2010
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Remembering D-Day, 66 years ago
I know the day is passed… but I just found this photo essay from The Big Picture today. Of the 42 photos, many are classics and WWII buffs will have seen them, but many/most of the photos were new to me… including this one which captures the scope of the invasion: Click the image above [...]
No Comments Scott Pagel on Jun 8th 2010
